Ive seen these on lots of websites in the past, and i think ithey seem like a very good idea for creating more accessible websites,but how do you control the size of text using javascript?

the idea i had was to change the class of the layer and set a cookie, im not sure if this can be doen but i dont see why it couldnt be done, can anyone tell me if this can be done or if there is a better way of doing it?

You don't need to use Javascript to change the size of the font on your website. Instead use CSS, have a different style sheet for each font size and have links on your website to the different sheets.

Someone on here did a site like this recently: http://nabialek.it.aplus.pl/

do you know how he makes the preferences stay the same? throught out the the site once you have changed them?

Hey is using php to setup cookies. Cookies store information on a users computer for when they come back to the site. You can do cookies in php or javascript. Javascript can be done by anyone, php is only for users with php enabled on their webserver.

You can read here about php and cookies:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

You can read here for information about javascript and cookies:
http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/

-dk

i would use the DOM and javascript to do this...alot faster and not much programming.

Nice to see that you mention my site

In my site I'm using only PHP to setup, save and restore preferences. The reason is simple - if someone had js turned off, he would't see the effects.

Hovewer, the first try was using combination JS and PHP but I've resigned and noe using only PHP.

If you have PHP enabled you can simple create rule for font-size (that's in my code) -

<style> body {font-size: xxxpx;} </style>

if someont clicks + you simply do +$xxx; and write it in the code via PHP.

To restore the preferences, I've used COOKIES although the site mainly uses sessions...