From: Fabio Fracassi <f.fracassi@gmx.net>
Rob Stewart wrote:
From: Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy@meta-comm.com>
Rob Stewart writes:
From: Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy@meta-comm.com>
Rob Stewart writes:
I think that even the enlarged version is still a tad to small. I find the links extremly hard to read.
I don't know what it looks like on your screen, but at my normal settings, both fonts are quite readable. I can, of course, enlarge or shrink the text at will. I note that when I enlarge the text, the background does not grow with the text, so the links on the right push past the white background and into the shadow. Since I do find it necessary to enlarge text for various purposes at many web sites, I can easily envision someone with vision problems wanting to do the same. At that point, the links become much harder to use.
I think that the links should be the same font size as the main text, or if you must, only marginaly smaller.
To do so means to use a single column, I think. We're very nearly there anyway because of the narrow window problems.
I also don't think it can possibily be confusing or distracting, since the Links are well separated by the (very nice looking) shadowed frames.
It's not that you will find yourself reading off the end of a line and into the links section, but rather that it is visually more interesting and, thus, draws your attention.
Most sites I know have link text in either:
Same font size: www.slashdot.org www.heise.de
Only a little bit smaller: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page www.kde.org
Smaller but bolt faced: www.gentoo.org
When I view the page in Firefox, the links on the right *do* appear "only a little bit smaller."
THe problem is low contrast relative to the background; it makes the text harder to read, something Rene mentions in another reply in this thread.
Well, but blue on white is fairly standard for the web (look at google, wikipedia, ...), and I can't see anybody who is not visually impaired having problems with it.
It isn't the standard blue. It is a blue/green color with lower contrast. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;