Roger says:
IE 7 does not, repeat not, resize pixel-sized text. It partly compensates for that by allowing the user to scale/zoom the entire page, including images (which quickly leads to massive horizontal scrolling because of its bad implementation).
He’s right, of course. However, anyone who uses this fact that suggest that there’s still an accessibility issue with pixel-sized text in IE7 is wrong.
IE7 can increase the size of text set in pixels. Roger can make the distinction between text zoom and page zoom all he wants, but the bottom line is that you can increase the size of text set in pixels in IE7. Yes, it’s a full page zoom and not just a text zoom, but it’s still resizing the text set in pixels — right?
The fact that IE7’s implementation doesn’t make resizing the text as convienent as Firefox or Safari’s doesn’t matter. Accessibility and convienence are not the same thing. Don’t confuse them.
Accessibility gurus can no longer claim this as an accesibility problem with IE7. Period.
Me, I’m with Nathan Smith:
At least IE7 can zoom. As for me, I’m done baby-sitting Microsoft’s sorry attempts to produce a browser. We can only coddle the weakest link for so long, until it’s time to just say - Goodbye, laggards.
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200703/ie_7_does_not_resize_text_sized_in_pixels/
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