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
- WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 1.4.4 level AA)
- WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 1.4.4 level AA)
- WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 1.4.4 level AA)
- Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 1.4.4 level AA)
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.
This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.
Rule ID: AccWcag1-3.4.3