[WEB4LIB] Re: Sanity and web page creation

[Terry Brennan]

Also, graphic images for text disadvantage vision-impaired users, whose
browsers can't "read" the images!

Randy Souther wrote:

>  You can control the text size using graphic images instead of HTML
> text. This of course may introduce issues of file size and download
> time. And there will still be variations in size due to different
> monitor resolutions, etc. Even if there were a way to make the text
> look exactly the same size for everyone (there isn't), you would still
> have people complaining that it is too big or small.
>
> --
> Randy Souther
> Reference Technology Librarian
> Gleeson Library | Geschke Learning Resource Center
> University of San Francisco
>
> Email:  southerr at usfca.edu
> Phone: (415) 422-5388
>
>> I get requests from the Netscape users to make it bigger, and the IE
>> users to make it smaller.  No two things can be coded the same way!
>> I'm just trying to make a simple page for our library!
>> Sigh!!!!Excuse my venting, but I know you people understand.If
>> anyone has suggestions or comments, feel free to take a look
>> at http://depts.alverno.edu/library
>