accesibility content, using relative fonts

Hello,

We are working on a CMS application which content must also respect some accesibility rules. Yet the content can be edited and we are using a FCKEditor. One of the functionalities which where not configured out is setting the fontsize.

Here is my configuration for fonts:
FCKConfig.FontSizes = '-2/très petite taille;-1/petite taille;+0/taille normale (par défaut);+1/taille moyenne;+2/grande taille;+3/très grande taille;+4/taille maximum';

Yet for the +x fonts the result is without the +. I guess it is because of the use of the parseInt() function in the function which changes the fontsize.
Is there a way to use relative fonts, other than removing this conversion?

Thank you,
Len

Wed, 01/04/2006 - 10:20

darrel-12

Joined: 29/12/2005

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RE: accesibility content, using relative font

You shouldn't be using declared font sizes at all if accessibility is an issue.

Wed, 01/04/2006 - 13:02

alfonsoml

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RE: accesibility content, using relative font

Thu, 01/05/2006 - 08:00

darrel-12

Joined: 29/12/2005

Posts: 6

RE: accesibility content, using relative font

The issue is that there shouldn't be a reason to arbitrarily change the size of type on a page. If you need to change the size of the type, then it's likely semantically different than the other type, and as such, you should probably be using a more semantic tag to identify that 'chunk' of text. Be it a different HTML tag, or even just a DIV or SPAN.