[vicsireland] Re: Apology - was - Re: Re: ignorance of disc jockeys
- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:48:58 +0100
Hi,
The best approach is not to have fonts or other attributes set in stone.
The user should be in control as to the size of font etc.
I don't think it was the disc jockeys' ignorance of accessibility that was
the problem, but rather their ignorance of their computer.
Tim
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[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandy Tomkins
Sent: 16 September 2009 23:31
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Apology - was - Re: Re: ignorance of disc jockeys
Flor,
Understanding, as I do, the need to keep all things on topic on this
list, there is something of interest here which crosses the boundery of
political correctness and accessibility: to wit: If a website goes out of
its way to provide a larger font etc, is it actually helping those of us
using screen magnifiers? What I mean, a person set up for reading the
screens with appropriate software to make them accessible, are they really
helped by huge fonts? I am thinking not. Some things may look like they are
inclusive, whereas, in reality, they may actually be making things worse. I
actually don’t know, but would be interested to know if people are generally
glad of such sites or would they prefer things to be kept to the norm?
Finally, political correctness has always seemed to me to be something
with which to put a stranglehold on people’s stereotypes. They spend for
ever looking to use the latest “correct term” they never can find it, but we
can all have a good laugh while they squirm!
Sandy.
On 9/16/09, Flor Lynch <florlync@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I apologise for replying to a message that may haved made the subject
> more off topic, on list. I had not ment to send that reply to vics.
> Now, I hope that we get back to our usual programming!
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