We in the web industry often create for the majority, making our work tolerable for those in the minority. That isn't good enough. In this article we're going to examine ways to improve the typographic experience for visually impaired users on the web. Reports from late 2013 suggest there are an estimated 285 million visually impaired people globally . While 90% of these people live in developing nations, the remaining 10% includes 28,500,000 people who certainly interact with the web in some capacity. There are purpose-made browsers for visually impaired users like WebbIE which turn all pages to text-only interfaces to work with screen readers, but is that enough? What about those who aren’t fully blind, but have issues reading fonts over the web? Is an all-or-nothing approach fair to them
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