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Article #152Re: JOB: (RIP) Software support engineer - Cambridge
From: Hugo 'NOx' Tyson
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:56
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:56
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"Tim Ward" <tim@brettward.co.uk> writes:
> "Gernot Hoffmann" <hoffmann@fho-emden.de> wrote in message
> news:a815dbcf.0406300918.1041df74@posting.google.com...
> >
> > I have added the website to my collection of good examples.
> > ItοΏ½s fast, well structured and graphically simple but reasonable.
>
> I found the text size a bit small to read comfortably, so tried to increase
> it and found this didn't work. This prompted me to run it through an
> accessibility checker, which was really rather unhappy with it. However, if
> they don't want to hire anyone with less-than-perfect eyesight or a
> less-than-perfect monitor then that's up to them I suppose.
Whilst I really don't think that's the case, they *are* in the prepress
business. Looking for bugs really does potentially involve looking at a
large sheet of photographic film through a magnifying glass to see the
problems! (Though of course you can zoom the stored bitmaps on a monitor -
but it's knowing *where* to look magnified in the first place...)
- Huge
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