  Re: Are Small Text buttons level 2 compliant  From: Leonard R.
Kasday <kasday@acm.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:59:42 -0400
Message-Id: <> To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>,
Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org> Glad you raised that
points (really) because I'm sure other people, people  perhaps
more shy than yourself, are thinking the same thing.  First of
all, the lawyerly position: Doesn't matter what technologies are
available: the guidelines say what they say, so the statement
that  something violates a checkpoint is true regardless.  But
we can do better than that.  I don't think using a screen
magnifier is as good as enlarging fonts.  1. When you enlarge
fonts, text wraps at the margins, instead of expanding  into a
virtual space wider than the screen (assuming the page was well
designed).    When the virtual page is wider than the screen,
you have to  scroll left and right as well as up and down, which
makes it harder to stay  oriented.  So enlarging fonts is
better. 2. With magnifica