Number 269 - October 2005

Optimize the Font and Size For Your Preference in Internet Explorer (IE)
by Stan Hutching, Stanford-Palo Alto Users Group (SPAUG) Newsletter July 2005
Perhaps your eyesight isn't quite what it used to be, or maybe the websites you're visiting are using tiny unusual fonts. The easiest way to enlarge or reduce font size is use the IE menu View - Text size options. If that doesn't satisfy you, go to IE's Tools - Internet Options - Accessibility... (on the General tab) and check either one or both Ignore Font Styles and Ignore Font Sizes (you could also Ignore colors, if desired). Make sure the Fonts... selections are appropriate for you (I like Times New Roman and Courier New, but some prefer Arial or Verdana). This will change the way web sites that use Font tags or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are rendered, including the SPAUG web pages, but might make them more	readable to you. To solve the small font size in pictures, install the Accessible Information Solutions (AIS) toolbar in IE6 and you can blow the whole web page up to 5X bigger. One other "trick" - try holding down the Ctrl key and roll your mouse wheel to resize text.    In some versions of Netscape and Firefox (with no added plugins), holding down the Ctrl key and then pressing the numeric keypad + and - keys makes the type larger or smaller on most web pages. Some web pages won't change because the text is an image (which this trick doesn't affect).
Number 269 - Octobber 2005