Checkpoint 5.6 - Mobile-PDA

Mobile devices are constrained by the size of the screen to display content. Site designers must balance the need to display enough valuable content for the user with the most efficient use of page downloads and download time and cost with the need to make the page readable and interesting for the user.

Requirement

Text size is not larger than 0.9em

Recommendation

All text sizes must be specified using relative fonts sizes, such as em and ex.

Checking Tool

View the source code of that page, and especially the contents of the stylesheet, and ensure there are no absolute units used, such as pt, px, and that the font size has not been set to be larger than 0.9em.