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As someone with presbyopia, and light myopia that first developed around the time I hit 30, who used to have excellent vision, I promise you that sooner or later you'll regret not thinking about accessibility.

For the record, the default choices for text size here on Hacker News are an example of ignoring basic accessibility.



Replying to myself to add: the suggestions to "just use the browser or OS controls" are beside the point. It's not only possible but easy to give users more control over the font size and maintain control over the layout and look of the site. Just cranking up size locally doesn't take into account design factors for text and other UI elements. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G178.html

Also, pushing responsibility for dealing with poor accessibility onto the person with disability is exactly the attitude that itself perpetuates the problems.


You can change the text size on Hacker News, or any other site, without really affecting everyone else though. Ctrl+Wheel is a common way.

Personally i have strong myopia yet i heavily dislike how large fonts are everywhere and i prefer Hacker News' font size.


> You can change the text size on Hacker News

This I know. However, better-designed sites allow the user to customize the default font size.


Zooming!=change font size


There are myriad ways to increase the font size of a simple site like HN (browser settings, OS level, etc). Is this really a problem?

If one was required to achieve 100% consensus on default font size, nobody would ever get anything done.


G178: Providing controls on the Web page that allow users to incrementally change the size of all text on the page up to 200 percent: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G178.html




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