Re: Minimum font size requirement or guideline for accessbility

Thank you all for your reply. much appreciated.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 1:07 PM Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 08/03/2023 13:12, David Woolley wrote:
> > On 08/03/2023 12:33, richard userite wrote:
> >> absolute measurements such as pixels
> >
> > As I understand it, pixel long ago ceased to mean pixel and now means
> > 1/96th of an inch.
> >
> >> proportional sizes such as "%" or "pt"
> >
> > "pt" is, as far as I know, still a typographer's point, which is as
> > absolute as "px", but using 72, rather than 96, as the divisor. Did you
> > mean "em"?
> >
>
> Fun side note that if you're working in digital, all the various
> measurements that match real-world units ("mm", "cm", "pt", etc) are
> actually, by definition in the CSS spec, all anchored on the ideal pixel
> definition, so have nothing to do with their traditional/real-world
> counterparts (i.e. if you define something in "pt", or "mm", and then
> hold a ruler against your screen, the results will vary wildly from
> their real-world equivalents...)
>
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