[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12825: Largest minimum text size in FF prefs makes admin display terrible

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#12825: Largest minimum text size in FF prefs makes admin display terrible
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 Reporter:  jane              |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration    |     Version:  2.9.2
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-    |     Focuses:  accessibility, administration
  opinion                     |
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Changes (by GrahamArmfield):

 * focuses:  accessibility => accessibility, administration


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:25 grahamarmfield]:
 > Need to test this with the new MP6 version of trunk.

 Now tested with trunk - ie 3.9 alpha, and the result is still not good.

 The WCAG 2.0 guidelines contain a success criteria about this - 1.4.4
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-
 scale.html). This talks (at length) about what is required, and indicates
 that text should be able to scale successfully without use of assistive
 technology to 200% of 'normal' size without compromising the readability.

 As I mentioned above, it is important to remember that text resizing and
 zooming are not the same things, and the different approaches suit
 different people. Zooming does not work for some people as items on a page
 can become so visually separated it can be hard for people to easily deal
 with. All the major browsers offer text resizing as well as zooming for
 this reason.

 I've enclosed a screenshot of the plugins page in Firefox after resizing
 the text up to nearly 200%. You can see that it doesn't look good.

 The main problem is that some elements - like the toolbar - appear to have
 fixed height, so the larger than expected text just spills out, or gets
 hidden in the case of the form controls.

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