Designing for Accessibility
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screens?
Laptop screens, though they’re better than they were, tend to have limited resolution.
Some services offer web surfing on TV. TV resolution is only as good as the very earliest, VGA computers.
It’s becoming common for people to surf using a phone or PDA. Their screens are very limited!
Large text: Nearly all web browsers provide a facility to change the size of the text. It’s really intended for partially-sighted users, but phone and PDA users with tiny, matchbox-sized screens find it very useful as well.
Many users, either on desktop computers or on PDAs, set the text size much bigger than the graphics. A fixed-width layout – at best – will squeeze the enlarged text into a narrow column. At worst, the whole screen can fall to bits!
Large screens: It’s not so
