>I understand it, too. My vision is 20/20, but I get eyestrain very easily. So I tend to make my fonts larger. I don't run large fonts on Windows, but I do bump up the textsize in IE. I can't believe how many websites simply don't work with the textsize set to "larger". And that's not even the biggest size! Even Microsoft is guilty of this. Try reading their website with "larger" textsize. The lines overlap each other.
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>The sad thing is that many web designers simply don't care. My husband has a website and his attitude is that if the user won't set their system to what is reccomended for his website, that's just tough.
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>Michelle

There's been several discussions here about allowing the application to modify screen colours or only use the windows colour set & only allow users to modify that themselves through the control panel. I go the application specific way, use suitable defaults but allow the operator to select colours for the individual application. Relying on the global windows colour set to be suitable for all applications, I think, is bound not to suit all applications.

I have a problem with the menu bar that this site uses, both on size/colour grounds, also on separation of the new messages with/without global refresh & also some of the icons are not intuitive (clicking on the printer to get a list of reports ?)

(Just checked, my site works with fonts "larger" & "largest", but just found a bug using IE4, something to fix this weekend)