appi2 - 5:04 pm on Jun 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

I've re-read and tried your example to try and get what you mean, but, lol sorry I'm still being dim. So I shall just prattle on..

OK in IE if I use your example and resize the text, only the fieldset and label text is resized. So Mrs Blind Bat comes along and sets her text to largest, great she can now see what the form fields are about. Only problem is the text input hasn't increased in size, so she can't see what she's entering.

So we could set the text to 100% or 1em in the input fields and now Mrs Blind Bat can see what she's entering and we won't have to phone her to find out she also deaf.

But we have another problem. The width of the input didn't change, so Mrs Blind Bat can't see that mistake she made, as the text has scrolled in the input.

So, we should have used em instead of px for the width. In fact we should have used em for the whole design. Then no matter what text size, everything would stay relatively how we want it.

Using em for the whole design is a bit like using a modern browser and zoom, which I suppose makes it pretty pointless these days ;)

Does that help any?