There is no such thing as a javascript: protocol to use in links. Click event handlers should be used instead. Event handlers should be added in the script itself, not hard coded into the HTML. In fact, given that this solution won’t work without javascript, the links should also be generated in script, so if someone visits the page without javascript turned on, they don’t see links that effectively do nothing for them.

Or even better, (link removed) teach people how to do it themselves.

I don’t know your level of expertize in this matter, but I do know that javscript: can be used in href attribute of a link tag, although it’s better to use DOM events instead.

If the javascript is disabled, that piece of code / function will not be executed no matter where you put it…

Of course, I could’ve been more careful about how the result displays, but my main intention was to show you the code itself, rather than giving you an out of the box solution.

Also, this post is for programmers, so a link to a page where people can learn how to change the text size for their browser has nothing to do with this subject.

Finally, go to iGoogle and search href=”javascript: into the source code - you’ll be surprised!

It’s an interesting idea this JS text size changer but I have to say I do not recommend it’s usage coming from an accessibility point of view.

A few things:

1. IE7 and Opera for example, have their own “page zoom” functionality and it seems to work really well. In these cases the text increase by JS makes the page look less good that these browsers would (though IE7 also has text zoom built in as well as “page zoom”). The rest have their own inbuilt text increase functionality already which is not JS dependant.

2. Most of the people who will rely on text zoom will know the browser text changer/page zoomer shortcut keys because they need to, or will have a special “zoomer viewer”.

3. Anything that relies on js and can be avoided in my opinion is better for accessibility.

Anyway I know this is not the point of this page, it is simply to share the js code for text change. Just wanted to give you some food for thought.

Thanks for posting this information in such a clear and readable manner.

I know that there are such functionality already build into browsers, but the thing is that many people don’t know about them or how to use them… and some times it’s just easier to click on a button / link instead of searching through menus or remembering keys combinations.