Don’t use absolute font sizes Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Use relative rather than absolute units in font size attributes.

Help

Ideally you should CSS rules instead of FONT elements, If you must use FONT elements use relative sizes like SIZE="+1" or SIZE="-1" instead of absolute sizes like SIZE=“1” Text must be resizable to allow low-vision users to use a larger default font size.

Applicable standards

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

  • 5.31 Nov 2018 Removed - see https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/883.
  • 4.6 Feb 2012 Added.

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Rule ID: AccWcag1-3.4.3