Joe Dolson on Accessibility and Typography
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Improving Accessibility through Typography
Among the many decisions you need to make when designing accessible web sites, typography seems to frequently be only shallowly addressed. Typography is rarely completely ignored — but it is greatly simplified, to a point that the issues raised don’t always complete the picture of accessible text. Accessible typography is commonly simplified to these three questions:
[via Accessites.org]
A nice summary of essential typography issues from Joe Dolson. (Perhaps one day browsers will give us greater control over online type; the multi-headed monster that is sIFR is sadly not the answer, at least not in its present flaky and unfriendly form.)
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June 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I’m not sure Century Gothic is particularly readable as body text, but interesting nonetheless.
Sifr is pretty good, I thought, at least the latest versions ( http://dev.novemberborn.net/sifr3/nightlies/). but it’s only designed for headings, so …
June 9th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I haven’t done anything with the latest version, I confess. Have they cured all the alarming bugs that version 2 exhibited? (Text size unstable when wrapped, weird interactions with float, etc?)
June 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
You do have much more control over your typography with the nightlies, but then I never experience the bugs in the old version. The only thing that prevents me rolling it out on all sites is the fact that it can make pages too big and, as an impatient fellow, I tend to imagine other users as similarly impatient.