Hi HMS,
Glad you like the plugin 🙂
I haven’t heard of fixed font sizes being an accessibility issue before (the browser zoom should still work).
Please can you send me a link to the accessibility tool you’re using so I can see what they’re saying?
Regards,
Tom
Tom,
Thanks for the quick response. You are definitely correct that zoom should work, but, the sufficient techniques for meeting WCAG 2.0 AA (1.4.4 Resize text Level AA) indicate to use relative font sizes:
Ensuring that text containers resize when the text resizes AND using measurements that are relative to other measurements in the content (future link) using one of the following techniques:
C28: Specifying the size of text containers using em units
Techniques for relative measurements (future link) using one of the following techniques:
C12: Using percent for font sizes
C13: Using named font sizes
C14: Using em units for font sizes
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/?showtechniques=144#qr-visual-audio-contrast-scale
We are using SortSite by PowerMapper for our accessibility scans.
Thanks for a great plugin!
HMS Products
Hi HMS,
Interesting – thanks! I’m still learning… 🙂
I’ve thought about changing the defaults to em’s. The problem is that there will be themes out there that do this sort of thing:
body {
font-size: 20px;
}
If a theme does that, and we use “em” as a default, the menu will look pretty terrible (i.e. “broken”) for new users. The user will need to go through the whole menu theme and manually adjust every font size, or switch them back to “px”. Therefore, as we can’t predict the styling that a theme may implement, I don’t think em values are a sensible default.
As you’re aware you can go through and set them to “em” yourself. If this comes up again I’ll create a menu theme export that uses “em” values which users can import if they wish to do so.
Regards,
Tom
Tom,
I definitely can see your point. Thanks for the consideration. We can certainly work around this, but, I wanted to see if you thought it was possible.
Thanks again,
HMS Products
