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Yeah. These accessibility vs. design issues were what immediately came to me mind to. Though, as simply another tool in the bag, accurate real-world sizing capa
by xelxebar 9y ago
Yeah. These accessibility vs. design issues were what immediately came to me mind to. Though, as simply another tool in the bag, accurate real-world sizing capability seems like it could be used too actually help those issues.
Would like to hear more from designers that on the issues and challenges of creating accessible designs.
- oatmealsnap 9y agoIt is a best practice (and required by certain WCAG 2.0 guidelines) to allow users to adjust the text size to meet their needs. The 2.1 AA guideline says that websites must scale up to 400% and still be usable. In CSS, I almost entirely use relative units so that I don't need to worry about how things will scale. If the user wants/needs their text to be larger, they will also want/need [any other element] to be larger, as well. Of course, if you let your buttons scale as much as your text does, you can end up with buttons taking up the entire screen. I typically solve that by using max-sizing on an element, rather than using `in` or `cm`...I can't recall ever using physical units in web design.