Re: Minimum font size requirement or guideline for accessbility

Please do not use absolute measurements such as pixels for font sizes.  
Users must be allowed to vary the font size to suit their needs.  
Ideally you should start with--- font-size:medium; --- then use 
proportional sizes such as "%" or "pt" to enlarge or reduce as 
desired...  now all you visitors can control the scale if required and 
your default design is exactly as you want.

Richard Waren

On 08/03/2023 11:53, David Woolley wrote:
> On 08/03/2023 11:13, Guy Hickling wrote:
>> text shouldn't be less than 16px
>
> I think this is assuming the Latin alphabet.  I'd suggest that CJK 
> fonts need to be rather larger for good resolution.  That may be true 
> of some alphabetic fonts.
>
> Also, any minimum font size that got close to covering all people with 
> some ability to read visually, would be so large that
>
>                                                      it would pose 
> significant usability problems for someone whose visual acuity was 
> closer to the median.  As such user ability to adjust font size is 
> always going to be important.
>

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2023 12:33:30 UTC