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(if no) Do you provide a link or control that allows users to adjust the letter-spacing, line-spacing and paragraph-spacing? (TXT21)

Why is this important?

It is helpful to make the text easy to read without adjustment. However, to provide the user with greater control over the letter-spacing, line-spacing and paragraph-spacing, one option is to provide a control within the webpage that allow the user to adjust these attributes. Such controls might directly adjust the CSS of specific elements or load in a different style sheet altogether. Another option is to provide a link to an alternative version of the webpage that has sufficient spacing.

How to fix the problem

Provide a control at the top of the webpage that allows the user to increase the letter-spacing, line-spacing and paragraph-spacing on the webpage. This could be achieved using JavaScript, to adjust the CSS style attributes of the elements on the webpage. A more robust solution would be to use a PHP style sheet switcher to swap the style sheet completely, without relying on the user having JavaScript enabled. Alternatively, simply provide a link to a version of the webpage that has sufficientspacing. If possible, provide several different options, for instance, space-and-a-half and double spacing for line spacing.

Example

No example is available.

Further Information

  1. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/05/style-switchers-are-back-ideas-examples-and-a-contest/
  2. http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/switch-styles-css
  3. http://www.cssnewbie.com/simple-jquery-stylesheet-switcher/
  4. http://www.webdesign.org/web-programming/php/stylesheet-switcher.9117.html