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Teaching users to resize text with browser controls


Accessify: latest news / Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text)

It got me thinking, maybe it would be best to show the user how to change the font size rather than simply describe it. With that in mind, I put together some video clips, joined them together in iMovie and did a voice-over to explain how it’s possible. Here’s the end result (actually, this is version 2, which takes on board some of the comments in this post)

I’m interested to hear your feedback. Is this useful? Could you see people wanting to embed this on their accessibility page?

Personally, I find parts a little confusing but I’m pretty far from the intended audience. Still, I love the idea.

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