Accessibility: relative font sizes

Mark Pilgrim: Using relative font sizes. I should be pointing to one of Mark’s articles every day. This is just one of the thoughtful, well written articles on the state of designing web sites for accessibility in 2002. It offers a good mix of audience justification for taking the trouble to make your pages resizable (“if people can’t read your words, what’s the point?”) and technical details, including stylesheet tricks that prevent Netscape 4 and Mac Opera 5 from choking on CSS syntax they don’t understand.

Of course, I haven’t had time to implement his suggestions yet. Next on my list…

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