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i am into accessibility and game design. i go by sysopod on other platforms as well



wolf-and-ghostling
@wolf-and-ghostling

a mobile web design accessibility thing that i have never seen addressed but impacts my daily life so much:

tons of websites just become unusable when you have your device's text display set to a larger size. text floats all over, button hitboxes overlap, images get pushed out of bounds etc

large text helps so much and i have it set up on both phone and tablet. but for a lot of websites the only way to get them functional is to go into desktop mode, which makes the text even tinier and i have to squint and suffer and zoom in and scroll horizontally every two words

eta: a lot of the time these websites are very important for people to be able to access, like identity document renewal info, healthcare info, nutrition and allergens info. there's ways around it, yes, but it just kind of sucks that it has to hurt or take more time to navigate these things if you have poor eyesight or migraines etc


basica11y
@basica11y

WCAG is the baseline accessibility standard referenced by most legal frameworks. The specific success criteria I'm talking about here (Resize Text) has been around for a long time. It works alongside the Reflow success criteria to improve accessibility for low-vision users.

Web and mobile developers just continue to fail it.


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in reply to @wolf-and-ghostling's post:

I'm sorry that it's such a common problem, that really sucks. I'm pretty sure accessibility guidelines do cover increased font size, but I bet a lot of developers only test full page zoom. 🙁

yeah, i actually got a bug report from a Pokemon Type Calculator visitor one time that ultimately came down to this

i'll admit that because font size testing is way harder than full page zoom these days, i rarely remember to do it...

i think this was a case where i had to remember to mix rem units with px units in my grid template calculations, so that the content size actually scaled with browser font size. i usually lean on rem for padding and margin anyway, though i've read some other people suggesting you actually not use rem for padding/margin since the scaling means folks with large font size end up having even more screen real estate taken up..