- From: Cheryl D. Wise <cdwise@wiserways.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:56:19 -0600
- To: "'Julia Collins'" <julia@we3.co.uk>, "'WAI Interest Group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
You don't have to use px for measurements when you use absolute positioning. You can use ems. It is a bit tricker since there isn't a one to one correlation between an em and a character at any given font. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer MS-MVP-FrontPage www.wiserways.com mailto: cdwise@wiserways.com 713.353.0139 Office -----Original Message----- From: Julia Collins Also, absolute positioning, with some layouts, can make text resizing very difficult - your text when at 200%, (say) may not be visible if you have (say) an absolutely positioned div beneath its container div. (which looked lovely when text was at 100%.) In user testing, I have found that some screen readers when used in certain modes will automatically make the text larger and then won't read anything that is obscured on the screen..... By using divs with margin-left and margin-right with percentage values, you can still have a proportionately "correct" layout that is fluid in relation to the size of the output media. J
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