low vision

Between 12 and 16 percent of all adults (in America and Canada) are not blind but have difficulty seeing small objects especailly type. They are the readers of the large type book editions. The great majority of the people who have visual accessiblity problems with computers are NOT blind. The majority simply have what the medical profession describes as "low vision" or "limited vision." This is typically the situation where the individual has sight, but cannot discern small details or discriminate between letters of small fonts.

If a web designer is one of the 20% of Americans who cannot read the normal font sizes of Drupal black drop down administrative menues at the top of each pate, his/her only current solution appears to be changing the Zoom in the browser--typically to 150% or larger. However if that is done, some of the menues extend beyond the bottom of the screen. If the user mouses to the scroll bar to scroll down to see the whole drop down menu, the menu disappears. The cursor must be on the black menu somewhere in order to keep the menu visiable.