- From: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:52:33 -0000
- To: "W3c-Wai-Ig@W3. Org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi All, Confession time. I may be going over old ground here but please exercise some patience for a pooh bear. I have accepted that many people do not like separate pages for text readers.........................fine. I am aware of the arguments and can see the logic in them, whilst I feel that this does restrict the artist in me, it is prepared to be restricted. (Commercial hat on here) But I do have a problem with fonts, there was, a little while back a thread on fonts and I have spent the week-end re-reading the emails. However the more I look at pages where no font is stipulated the less I like 'em. Frankly I think they look awful. In fact I would go further and say I hate 'em. Is there an accessibility reason that <FONT face="geneva, arial, helvetica, sans serif"> should not be used? or to put it another way is there any software, text reader or browser that has a problem with this? I can see no reason why they should have a problem, but then I am a self taught hack, not a highly trained expert. The main justification I can think off for not stipulating fonts is the partially sighted who hate using software to assist in reading pages, is there another or more important reason please? If I make the decision to force these people to either use their software or leave the site would this then be construed as rendering the site inaccessible? Is this then not an argument for a separate page to help out if, when and where difficulties arise? As this is close to a subject that was done too death a few weeks back it may be better to reply off list!!!! smiles Paul Davis
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