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Web Developers & Designers
This is your friendly reminder that low vision users exist. We need font sizes that are dramatically larger than yours.
Many of us use the “minimum font size" NOT zoom, because we need bigger text, not bigger images.
I'm on the very low end of low vision needs, but my 20pt minimum font size breaks SO MANY web sites.
This pic shows how big fonts are on my screen (thumb & ruler for context).
#accessibility #webdesign
@masukomi I've preferred #CSS text sizing with ems, since @Richr wrote about it in 2004:
Quoting:
"Like it or not, your readers **will** want to resize text at some point. Perhaps they are short-sighted, doing a presentation, using a ridiculously high resolution laptop or simply have tired eyes."
This was all pre-"responsive" web design, but it makes for much more scalable designs across text sizes. The calculations were tedious back then, but now easily computed.
@urlyman @masukomi I fully admit that I haven't been doing as much front-end web development the last several years and, even before then, have limited experience with modern HTML/CSS frameworks, so there may be even more modern solutions. Certainly, rems have a part to play now, but I don't recall them being a replacement for ems for the scalability (see @Richr's https://clagnut.com/blog/2384/).
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