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Accessible fonts

15th July 2002

Mark has out-done himself today with his long awaited coverage of relative font sizes. This is a notoriously tough topic (thanks to a whole bunch of strange CSS bugs and browser differences) but Mark carefully and comprehensively explains the various work arounds and CSS hacks needed to get the right effect with maximum accessibility.

Posted 15th July 2002 at 8:26 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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