[thelist] Text size

[Stevens, Sharon]

what we have done is use percentage for the font sizes - therefore they are
scalable and will depend on what they have as their default font size on
their puter (system size in IE and the custom settings in NN).

HTH
Schaz

> Hello all
> 
> I am after opinion here about setting font sizes in CSS where the user
> does
> not loose the ability to change the font size if they wish.  I need our
> web
> site to be accessible to the poor sighted who may need to enlarge the font
> sizes.  Is percentage the best to use in this case? Or does using either
> px
> or pt give the user the ability to increase font size.
> 
> I'm also sure that this would be useful for those designers who build
> sites
> on a PC and only check them on a PC.  I use mainly a Mac, and the number
> of
> (top) sites I visit where, not only is the text too small to read in the
> first place, but I am also unable to change the font size at my desire to
> make the text readable.
>