Web Developers & Designers

[masukomi@connectified.com]

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

[morgant@mastodon.social]

@masukomi I've preferred #CSS text sizing with ems, since @Richr wrote about it in 2004:

https://clagnut.com/blog/348/

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.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@masukomi hi, is there a way for me to check if my website follows such accessibility requirements other than asking you to check what happens when you visit it? Any setting I can try on my browser or devtool or anything else?