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Comment LC-986: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Sean Curran <sean@srcurran.com>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment (including rationale for proposed change):

I would add another section to 3.1 that alows users to increase or decrease the text size through the browser or the website. Or the text will work with multiple default text sizes. I think this is a bigger deal than screen readers and zooming in. Most 50 people have bad eyesight and don\'t know how to use windows zoom, but can be taught the make text bigger trick and have it as a large size by default. This breaks some websites and makes the content un-usable.

Proposed Change:

Add a section under 3.1 that allows users to increase the text size a reasonable amount and still have the website readable/usable/etc.; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed in the 25 January 2007 telecon: accepted by unanimous consent http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/01/25-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} SEE LC-469; Resolution: Although resizing is primarily a user agent function, we have added new success criteria to address the author's responsibility for supporting text resizing: Level AA: Visually rendered text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent and down to 50 percent without loss of content or functionality. Level AAA: Visually rendered text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent and down to 50 percent without loss of content or functionality and in a way that does not require the user to scroll horizontally.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)