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Description: I'd like to suggest improving PmWiki's web accessibility (for handicapped users) by re-enabling scalable fonts.

Of course, many browsers can scale entire web pages regardless of the CSS definitions, but the widely-used MS Internet Explorer fails in that regard.

Not terribly important, but very easy to solve :-) --Henning September 28, 2005, at 12:39 PM

I just found the W3C reference on this. Here it is ... --Henning November 22, 2005, at 06:37 AM

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999

Guideline 3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.

...

3.4 Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values. [Priority 2]

(Just for grins: When I suggested the use of user-scalable fonts to our mother company's intranet team, they told me "Fixed fonts are fine because we have optimized for 800 by 600 resolution.")