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Size changes are specified as a percentage of the original font size and not as an absolute size in pixels or point size. Relative sizes increase accessibility for visually impaired users by allowing them to set a large(r) default font size in their browser settings. Absolute sizes deny users such ability. Avoid using smaller font sizes within ...
The default font size on Wikipedia is already too small (9 points instead of 12 points), so we don't want to make it even smaller. The biggest usability issue is for elders (and possibly anyone older than 40), normal users with low vision and normal users with a particular resolution, device, and such.
The first web accessibility guideline was compiled by Gregg Vanderheiden and released in January 1995, just after the 1994 Second International Conference on the World-Wide Web (WWW II) in Chicago (where Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned disability access in a keynote speech after seeing a pre-conference workshop on accessibility led by Mike Paciello).
The accessibility of websites relies on the cooperation of several components: [12] content – the information in a web page or web application, including natural information (such as text, images, and sounds) and code or markup that defines structure, presentation, etc. web browsers, media players, and other "user agents"
In no case should the resulting font size of any text drop below 85% of the page's default font size. The HTML <small>...</small> tag has a semantic meaning of fine print or side comments; [2] do not use it for stylistic changes. For use of small text for authority names with binomials, see § Scientific names.
Make web pages easy to read for you! With simple keyboard shortcuts, you can zoom in or out to make text larger or smaller. In an instant, these commands improve the readability of the content you're viewing.
A text whose font size was determined inappropriately (with pixels instead of relative size or em) will not be readable by users with low vision who needs to zoom into or magnify the page. Information conveyed by certain combinations of colors of text or images may not be correctly perceived by a colorblind user.
When viewing monospaced text here on Wikipedia, sometimes it is shown too small. This is not a bug, but a result of the combination of a website's default font size and the browser's default font size for monospace. By default, a (Windows) browser has its default font sizes set at 16px for serif and sans-serif, and 13px for monospace.