Hello To assist website accessibilty for vision impaired persons, I would like to add some of those 'increase font size' buttons that I've seen on many websites. I was thinking that the easiest way would be to run each page off a seperate stylesheet with increased font sizes so a person would click on a button and be taken to a copy of that page with larger fonts in the css. This seemed okay in principle but a large site would take forever to copy each page with another stylesheet especially when offering two size increase options. Can anyone please offer me suggestions or better way to to this? Thanks in advance Scotty
Personally I dislike those, as much as I dislike those "go back" Javascripted buttons which takes you back one page. Browsers already have these things built in!! But apparently, people do use them, esp those not familiar with web browsing like seniors and kids new to teh Interwebs. I would say it was better for them to learn the magic of ctrl++ but anyway... They are usually widgets, chunks of code you can just throw on a page. They could call an imported css sheet, or they could use Javascript to simple change the base font-size of the page (if one was set) though this will limit the effect to those with Javascript (so I'd avoid it). If you get a widget, change the alt text of the A's to something USEFUL like "smaller text" larger text" ginormous text!". http://accessites.org/site/2008/08/wrangling-widgets/ you may want to read this and the comments in it : )
I totally agree with you. I'm donating some time cleaning up a website for a local organisation who trains pensioners and the unemployed in computer and 'net usage. They said they expect 50% of visitors to be over 60 years old and would probably not know how to use shortcuts or browser controls (I suggested they include it in their training course). Thanks for the article link - there's some interesting for and against arguments plus suggestions as to the best way of doing a widget. Thanks stomme poes!