Typography
Here is a great article for anyone building web pages: Understanding web typography - an introduction. Jim Byrne covers text on the web in general, with a bent towards accessibility. An excerpt:
But - as with all heroes - text also has the potential to be a very bad; bad text is:
- unable to be changed to suit the preferences of the end user
- difficult to read due to font incompatibilites.
- so small it is unreadable
- inaccessible due to inadequate contrast between text and background or due to 'busy' backgrounds
- presented in inpenetrable blocks that make it difficult to read
- presented as an image - that can't be resized or read by people using screen readers.
- difficult to read because it is moving or blinking.