[vicsireland] Re: large fonts on Google Re: - was - Re: ignorance of disc jockeys
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:50:00 +0100
Hi Sandy,
You make good points, I think; although, llike you, I don't know what
the actual experience is. Perhaps there is a growing cohort of elderly
users whose sight isn't what it used to be, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Tomkins" <sandratomkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:31 PM
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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