[gui-talk] Fwd: Put an End to the Squinting and Straining When Reading SmallType on the Web

[Steve Pattison]

From: Susan Thompson susan at sthompson.net
To: vip-l at lists.pacific.net.au

 The Fred's Head Companion (APH)
 Thursday, December 27, 2007

 Put an End to the Squinting and Straining When Reading Small Type on
 the Web

 By Michael McCarty

 Big.com, a search engine developed to deliver search results to users
 in a large, easy to read format announces the immediate availability
 of the Big.com Web Magnifier. Available from

 http://www.big.com/toolbar

 as a free, downloadable toolbar for use with Internet Explorer web
 browsers, Web Magnifier provides users with the ability to enlarge the
 text and graphics of any HTML web page for easier reading and 
navigation.

 The trend of decreasing font sizes in web design has made navigating
 the web an increasingly difficult task for many Internet users.
 According to the American Council of the Blind, nearly 8 million
 Americans are unable to read regular print even with reading glasses,
 and the number is expected to grow as the population ages. Not just
 for web users with impaired vision, Web Magnifier can also be useful
 when reading the fine print of an online contest or a site's privacy
 policy - both of which are typically displayed in smaller font sizes -
 or to simply increase the size of a photo to reveal more detail.

 Web Magnifier sits as a toolbar at the top of a user's screen and
 contains a Big.com search box for immediate web searches as well as 3
 buttons for the various levels of magnification - normal, big and
 bigger. Once a page is magnified to the desired level, Web Magnifier
 remembers the setting and automatically adjusts the magnification on
subsequent visits to the page.
 Additionally, the toolbar itself can be displayed in large and
 standard sizes.

 System requirements for the Big.com Web Magnifier include Microsoft
 Windows 2000/XP, Internet Explorer 6.0, 1MB hard drive space and 128
 MB of RAM.

 Big.com is a service of Perfect Market Technologies, Inc., and is
 dedicated to providing an easy-to-view web experience through its
 large-format search engine and its Web Magnifier toolbar for Internet
 Explorer. Based in Pasadena, CA, Perfect Market is a network company
 of Idealab, a creator and operator of technology businesses.

 Posted by Michael McCarty at 3:13 PM

Regards Steve
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