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Note that I implemented this suggestion on the french Wikipedia the 22th of August, following Jack Marridev's good proposal. Regards, [[User:Dodoïste|Dodoïste]] ([[User talk:Dodoïste|talk]]) 22:04, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
== Minimum font-size recommendations ==
I spend a lot of my time fiddling with music articles, which means I work a lot with discography tables as used in the examples here (no doubt taken from [[WP:DISCOGSTYLE|the discogs style page]]). This example (in both the "good" and "bad" cases) uses <code>style="width:2em;font-size:75%"</code> for the column headings. The setting of 75% for the font-size is widespread among the music articles, and (or because) it closely simulates the <code><nowiki><small></small></nowiki></code> that was the typical formatting before the CSS got added.
What I'd like to see addressed is what minimum font-size Wikipedia should be recommending or mandating. I think 85% is plenty small, thank you, considering that it's already 15% smaller than what the sighted user's preferred and expected font-size. The 75% used in the recommended examples here is even smaller.
I assume that the profoundly blind, using text-to-speech AT, won't care about this, but users with weak vision (and I just might be talking about visitors over about 40) would probably find accessibilty enhanced if they didn't need to squint and strain so much to tell "NL" from "NZ" apart. Is this an appropriate place to address this? Or am I better off pursuing my little crusade at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies/style]]? Thanks for the good work here. <i>— [[User:JohnFromPinckney|JohnFromPinckney]] ([[User talk:JohnFromPinckney|talk]])</i> 11:18, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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