Re: screen magnifiers and fragmented text

David,

I've done a quick search through google and couldn't find what em stands
for. I believe "e" stands for element but that's as close as I came. Here's
the best description I could find from blooberry.com:

Ems. A scaling factor relative to the value of the current element's
'font-size' property. If 'em's are used in the 'font-size' property for an
element, the scaling factor is relative to the value of the 'font-size'
property of the parent element. If this type of unit is specified for the
root element of a document, the scaling factor should be relative to the
browser default value for the property.

michelle

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>
To: "Michelle Podd" <mpodd@iqnetcom.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: screen magnifiers and fragmented text


> so what does e m stand for?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle Podd" <mpodd@iqnetcom.com>
> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: screen magnifiers and fragmented text
>
>
> An em is a way to express a size value (for font, line-height or other
> things) in a relative way as opposed to a fixed way. It allows the user
> to
> increase or decrease the fon't size through his browser.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@comcast.net>
> To: "Michelle Podd" <mpodd@iqnetcom.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: screen magnifiers and fragmented text
>
>
> > what is an em?  sorry to ask and I probably know but cannot put my
> mind
> > to it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michelle Podd" <mpodd@iqnetcom.com>
> > To: "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:31 PM
> > Subject: screen magnifiers and fragmented text
> >
> >
> > Anyone ever have text "fragment" when using a screen magnifier? Any
> > ideas
> > why that would happen?
> >
> > At www.accessdome.com/preview I'm using Verdana as a main body font.
> The
> > size is expressed in em's. I'm getting a feedback from a lady using
> > Zoomtext
> > Extra Level 2 on a new PC through IE6. She tells me that the software
> > acts
> > as a screen magnifier and a screen reader. On the magnification side,
> > she
> > says that the headings (which are Georgia font) enlarge just fine
> while
> > some
> > (but not all) of the body text fragments and is hard to read when
> > magnified.
> > I asked her to look at the National Organization on Disability site
> >
> >
> http://www.nod.org/cont/dsp_cont_loc_hme.cfm?locationId=12&locationNm=Ho
> > me )
> > which I'm told is highly accessible. Her feedback was that the regular
> > text
> > enlarged properly but any link text was fragmented.
> >
> > My only guess is regarding the use of styles - the inheritance rule.
> > Netscape 4.x has inheritance issues (among many many many other
> problems
> > but
> > I won't go there). I've got a separate style sheet for Netscape
> however
> > in
> > places where it doesn't listen to the font-size, I add a class to
> force
> > it.
> > For example, I have a style applied to <p> and <td>. In my web page, I
> > have
> > a table. IE 5.x renders the font just fine but in Netscape, it ignored
> > the
> > size (it displayed the proper font-family however so go figure). So I
> > add
> > class="table" (which contain the same properties as my regular body
> > font)
> > to the table tag then most times, the font size displays properly in
> > both
> > IE5.x and Netscapte 4.x.  Here's part of my netscape style sheet. The
> > one
> > for "everyone else" is exactly the same, only the values are
> different.
> >
> > p, body
> > {
> > font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
> > font-size: .8em;
> > color: #333333;
> > }
> >
> > p
> > {line-height: 1.1em;}
> >
> > .table
> > {
> > font-size: .8em;
> > line-height: 1.1em;
> > }
> >
> > td
> > {
> > font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
> > font-size: .8em;
> > color: #333333;
> > }
> >
> > So, do you think the fragmentation occurs because of a style being
> > applied
> > twice?
> >
> > Any assistance is appreciated,
> > Michelle Podd
> > Web Designer
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 8 March 2002 14:54:14 UTC