Thursday, August 04, 2005
FW: [BLKBRD-L] Fixing tiny font size
-----Original Message-----
From: blkbrd-l - A list for Blackboard course administrators and faculty
[mailto:BLKBRD-L@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:17 AM
To: BLKBRD-L@asu.edu
Subject: Re: [BLKBRD-L] Fixing tiny font size in Netscape
While we're on the subject: IE users have the problem too, but there's a
different fix. In IE go to "Tools" --> "Internet Options"
and click on the "Accessibility" button, lower right corner. Check the
box "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages." Does the trick.
Brian
At 10:20 PM 8/3/2005, you wrote:
>(Sorry if this has been discussed recently. I searched the 2003-2005
>archives and didn't see any notes about this issue. It seems to come up
>for us every few weeks, and today I found what seems to be a solution.)
>
>Sometimes users complain that the text displayed by Blackboard is too
>small. These callers are almost always using Netscape, and they are
>usually (though not exclusively) using Macintosh systems. I do not
>recall hearing about this problem from Firefox users. As suggested in
>many Bb help documents, we have directed the Netscape users to adjust
>the "text zoom" from the View menu, but that makes other items on the
>screen (especially the words on the course menu) larger too, and it
>gets very ugly.
>
>For better results, go into Netscape's Preferences panel. Inside the
>Appearance section, under Fonts, there is a control labeled "Minimum
>font size." This is rather different from specifying a font size for a
>typeface. On my Macintosh system, where normal text from Bb was indeed
>very small, the default value for the minimum font size was 9, and when
>I changed it to 12 or 14, the visibility of the text in Bb improved
>greatly and the menu buttons were not affected. On my Windows system,
>the default value for this setting was "None" and the normal display
>was quite readable to me, but I'm sure some users will benefit from
>shifting this value to 12 or 14.
>
>Firefox (on both platforms) offers the "Minimum font size" control
>through the Tools--Options menu.
>
>Hope this information is useful to others!
>
>Gene Kleppinger
>Eastern Kentucky University
>
>
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