- From: Ben Caldwell <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:48:05 -0500
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: >>browsers text size feature. The pixels units do not allow that. So is = >>px "relative"? > > > For accessibility purposes, pixels should be considered non-scalable, > and should not be used. I think it's helfpul to distinguish between today's user agents and future user agents. Today, many browsers do not have problems scaling px, but because issues remain in mainsteam implementations, we should avoid the use of px until the situation changes. UAAG 1.0 checkpoint 4.1 Configure text scale (P1) [1] does not distinguish between absolute and relative sizes and we should be hopeful that the need to avoid units like px will diminish over time. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT/guidelines.html#tech-configure-text-scale> -- Ben Caldwell | <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu> Trace Research and Development Center <http://trace.wisc.edu>
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