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Comment on Choosing the right font styles & variants by Beej

Beej — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:02:56 +0000

Fascinating post and I can see you spent hours searching the topic! As an artist and former graphic designer, I personally love seeing great individuality in type fonts. As a disability advocate, one important part of my job is to train folks to create documents that are accessible, especially by those who use assistive technology to read and respond. My general comments as to that aspect of the “usability” factor are: 1. use sans-serif fonts 2. limit the number of font style changes within a document 3. Avoid italics 4. if you have room to make the type larger, do it and 5. try to use these official fonts where possible if the primary concern is to deliver information: arial, tahoma, verdana.

If you consider the character spacing for readability, verdana has built-in character spacing. Otherwise you may have to specify 1.3 spacing when using the other fonts. What this means is how close each letter is to each other. If you spell out the word “cat”, writing the letters too far apart or too close together reduces the ability of a person who has a vision impairment to clearly make out the word.

Hope this adds something to your post – you have posted a fine entry!

Comment on Generic blog spam must be stopped by Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:24 +0000

Here is today's generic praise spam:

Thanks a lot you regarding all of the support

--comment to my post Legal Requirements for Self-Employed Persons from an unknown person I've never "supported" whose name links to a an online translation service. Note the broken English. A lot of these generic spam comments are in broken English; it's one of the characteristics that should tip you off, just as e-mails in broken English from people you don't know should tip you off to something fishy (or phishy, as the case may be). ~and~

thanks for that

--comment to my post Singing & Signing "Pure Imagination" from a person whose name links to a commercial food site with lots of links to everything (one of those sites that seems to be more of a "link farm" than a site about anything in particular). I think that's all I'll be posting on this topic for now. It took at least 15 minutes of my time to gather all the links and quotations to copy and paste, and I don't really have time for that. I think you get the idea, though.

Comment on Generic blog spam must be stopped by Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:01:46 +0000

Here’s the latest generic praise spam:

Regularly I do not make comments on blogs, but I have to mention that this post really forced me to do so. Really fantastic post

Comment on My First Speak & Spell Workshop by Generic blog spam must be stopped « Daniel Greene’s Blog-o-rama

Generic blog spam must be stopped « Daniel Greene’s Blog-o-rama — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:54:34 +0000

[...] one on my blog post “My first Speak & Spell workshop“: This is an excellent post. I have a similar blog myself so I will keep coming back to read [...]

Comment on “Sign-Chi-Do” Butchers ASL, Excludes Deaf People by Magdalena Barone

Magdalena Barone — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:34:54 +0000

i love your writing style