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(Message started by: oneshed1 on Jun 20^th, 2006, 9:46am)

Title: Sizing & Accessibility
Post by oneshed1 on Jun 20^th, 2006, 9:46am

I appreciate that the reader can always size his/her window 'manually' to get a comfortable line width but is this the only way? Surely no-one with even a modestly sized monitor would want to have to read across the whole screen width. On the contrary, is it not best to have lines running at around ten words or less? How does EBW allow for this?

Also there seems to be no way for the reader to change the font size - is it not necessary to provide this function in the interest of 'accessibility'?

Title: Re: Sizing & Accessibility
Post by jumba on Jun 20^th, 2006, 3:28pm

You may try to use fixed tables (in the Properties, choose a fixed width instead of the default %), or to setup the reader size (maybe just a "default" size that then the end user can change), this second one is possible maybe only with the Gold edition.

For the font change it seems an interesting thing. I think it is not supported. Hope that VisualVision will consider this for the future........

Title: Re: Sizing & Accessibility
Post by oneshed1 on Jun 21^st, 2006, 2:15am

Fixed tables are perhaps a partial answer. But isn't the user then stuck with a minimum width which he cannot choose to reduce? Probably best just to adjust the window size?

The font size seems more important the more I consider it - I suspect there is even a legal requirement in some countries eg UK, to take reasonable steps to make publications accessible. After all, your average web browser allows font size to be changed at will. One for the future, maybe, as you suggest.