Font size (accessibility)

[Tortie]

Is there a setting to increase the font size for the ASR website?

 

[AnalogSteph]

Use the zoom function in your browser? The design seems to scale well, so I see few issues with that. Hotkeys in Firefox and most other browsers on Windows would be Ctrl-+/- and Ctrl-0 to reset.

 

[Tortie]

Use the zoom function in your browser? The design seems to scale well, so I see few issues with that. Hotkeys in Firefox and most other browsers on Windows would be Ctrl-+/- and Ctrl-0 to reset.

Doesn't work for me. You're probably referring to desktop browsing. I'm using Chrome on Android mobile. Adjusting the Chrome zoom setting to max, which is 200%, has no effect on ASR. I was hoping there was a Don't size setting for ASR like there is with Twitter.

 

[AnalogSteph]

Huh. ASR (at least this very page we are on) uses a bog standard choice of "viewport" meta tag, the common

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Nothing that should prevent you from zooming, like the attribute user-scalable being set to 0 / no. So I'm at a bit of a loss here.

In this respect, ASR should behave like a gazillion other websites, including mine. Is that any different? Might be worth checking out with another browser app.

 

[Tortie]

Huh. ASR (at least this very page we are on) uses a bog standard choice of "viewport" meta tag, the common

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

Nothing that should prevent you from zooming, like the attribute user-scalable being set to 0 / no. So I'm at a bit of a loss here.

In this respect, ASR should behave like a gazillion other websites, including mine. Is that any different? Might be worth checking out with another browser app.

Below is what I'm seeing from ASR with Chrome accessibility font zoom set to 135%:

It's maddening small and doesn't change even when I max out at 200%


Below is a screenshot of a random page on your website. Your website respects my Chrome accessibility font zoom settings

I can really crank your fonts up when I set my zoom to 200% (below) if necessary:

I've tried 3 different browsers, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Brave. ASR ignores the font size zoom settings of all three browsers. It looks like ASR, like a few other forum websites, just isn't optimized for mobile.

 

[Tortie]

@AnalogSteph

I should add that tye zoom issue in experiencing at ASR only affects comments in each thread.

 

[danadam]

FWIW works fine on Firefox. In order: normal, pinch zoom, accessibility 200%:

 

[Tortie]

FWIW works fine on Firefox. In order: normal, pinch zoom, accessibility 200%:

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Thanks for testing Firefox! I'm typing this reply from within Firefox android and can confirm that ASR respects the Firefox accessibility zoom setting. I'll just do all my ASR browsing through Firefox from now on.

 

[Tortie]

@AnalogSteph I found a workaround for the zoom issue by switching to Firefox android for my ASR browsing. I prefer Chrome bit this works.

 

[Tortie]

Head-fi was another forum that wouldn't play nice with Chrome accessibility settings. Firefox android works with Head-fi too. This is nice. I didn't really like Firefox but I guess it's useful for forums.

 

[MZKM]

Below is what I'm seeing from ASR with Chrome accessibility font zoom set to 135%:

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It's maddening small and doesn't change even when I max out at 200%


Below is a screenshot of a random page on your website. Your website respects my Chrome accessibility font zoom settings

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I can really crank your fonts up when I set my zoom to 200% (below) if necessary:

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I've tried 3 different browsers, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Brave. ASR ignores the font size zoom settings of all three browsers. It looks like ASR, like a few other forum websites, just isn't optimized for mobile.

Just gonna report that Safari on iOS works.

I tried Chrome on iOS and it didn’t allow text zoom at first. However, requesting the desktop version then allowed text zoom to work. Weird thing is, I can request mobile version and the zoom option still is active.

 

[Tortie]

Just gonna report that Safari on iOS works.

I tried Chrome on iOS and it didn’t allow text zoom at first. However, requesting the desktop version then allowed text zoom to work. Weird thing is, I can request mobile version and the zoom option still is active.

Definitely weird. Sounds like a coding issue with the ASR website that affects some popular android browsers.

 

[danadam]

Head-fi was another forum that wouldn't play nice with Chrome accessibility settings.

Both ASR and head-fi use xenforo, so it might be a bug there. Their forum also doesn't scale. But what is more probable, is that the actual text scaling feature in chrome is buggy: Issue 779409: Text scaling setting in Chrome scales some elements but not others. For example, go to https://google.com and you'll see it is also not scaled.

On some xenforo forums they have text size widget:

But I'm not sure if that's a default feature because somebody is asking exactly for this on their forum: Anyway to select font size for users?.

 

[Tortie]

Both ASR and head-fi use xenforo, so it might be a bug there. Their forum also doesn't scale. But what is more probable, is that the actual text scaling feature in chrome is buggy: Issue 779409: Text scaling setting in Chrome scales some elements but not others. For example, go to https://google.com and you'll see it is also not scaled.

No need for me to go to Google com. I can already see the variance in font zoom right here on this page. Below this column of comments there's a webpage element for 'Similar Threads'. The text there does follow my Chrome zoom settings. So you're right. There's definitely some compatibility issue between Chrome and certain webdev kits. I guess Google is not going to fix the issue from their end.

 

[danadam]

No need for me to go to Google com. I can already see the variance in font zoom right here on this page.

The point of google.com example was that if even google's own pages don't scale, then it is not a problem with those different sites but with chrome itself.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Try Brave browser which is chrome based and see if it works differently. Just to see where the problem might lie.

 

[Tortie]

Try Brave browser which is chrome based and see if it works differently. Just to see where the problem might lie.

Already did. Same result...because it's chromium based. Microsoft Edge is also chromium based and also can't adjust in-line thread fonts on ASR. So I think we've found the common denominator.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Already did. Same result...because it's chromium based. Microsoft Edge is also chromium based and also can't adjust in-line thread fonts on ASR. So I think we've found the common denominator.

Well maybe Firefox will do it for you.

 

[daftcombo]

Doesn't work for me. You're probably referring to desktop browsing. I'm using Chrome on Android mobile. Adjusting the Chrome zoom setting to max, which is 200%, has no effect on ASR. I was hoping there was a Don't size setting for ASR like there is with Twitter.

Actually it works for some thread topics for me, but not all. But it works for all messages content.

I have something like "allow webpage resize" checked.