[access-uk] Re: Centred web pages & screen magnifiers.
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:46:50 +0100
Tink. I do not have that much eye sight, but when I do use
magnification then centred web pages are generally a good idea.
In the first place, having a decent margin of white space to left
and right means I can use the minimum magnification necessary
without losing context, that is, a view of where things are
relative to one another. Secondly, if I use a 'lense' type view
for magnification then there's a bit more space available to
accomodate the lense at whatever zoom level I want.
There is one more instance in which I use a zoom facility, and
that is enlargement of pictures and images.
I use an IE plug-in for this which works admirably with IE6,
although it was designed for 5.5. In this way I can magnify an
image without affecting the srounding text or whatever. Really
useful where designers insist on dumping graphical images of text
within a webpage. If such images are centred, then all the
better.
I think the ability to list links in Window-Eyes and JAWS - and
most probably HAL too - beats any effort of mine to search for
links visually with magnification. Of course, if links will not
speak at all, then I have to usemagnification.
HTH
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Léonie Watson" <lw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "BCAB" <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Centred web pages & screen magnifiers.
All,
Please forgive the cross post, but as usual I'd like to catch
as many
people as possible.
I'd like to know if people who use screen magnifiers have any
particular
views about pages that have the content centred on the page, EG:
with a
noticeable whitespace margin down the left and right hand of the
page?
A contemporary of mine has been given conflicting information
about
whether this is problematic or irrelevant to screen magnifier
users, but as
always, I find it's best to come to the people who use this
technologies for
the real answer.
I'm completely blind, so have never used a magnifier, so any
or all
opinions would be really welcome.
Thanks,
Tink.
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