increase text size on homepage

anagami · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: increase text size on homepage

Can the text size of the homepage be bigger? If the size isn't at least medium, it reduces legibility and accesibility. With higher resolution monitors it's tiny. Using 'ctrl+' (in Firefox) to increase text size is tedious (the forums doesn't have this problem).

Laughs_Last · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 851

In Firefox you can use ctrl with the scroll wheel on your mouse, if you've got one.

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Top of your web browser >View >text size >largest > ?
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In Opera you can set the page size. There's a box to the upper right hand, with a range between 20% and 1000% of the original size.
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chris-h · Heavy Crude Joined: Oct 11, 2004 Posts: 446

Somewhere in options fonts advanced there is a option to set the minimum size of the font.
(firefox only)
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Leanan · News Editor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 4447

I agree. The font sizes are set for the old video cards/monitors. With today's high-res cards, the text looks like microfilm.

I use Firefox and use an extension to increase the text size. (Tab Mix Plus, I think.) But it's not ideal for news stories. If you set the text size large enough to easily see quotation marks, diacriticals, and all the things that so important for HTML, you end up scrolling a lot, because the text box remains tiny. A postage stamp in the middle of my spacious screen, in which I have to edit sometimes extremely long URLs.
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Leanan · News Editor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 4447

I should add, though...if you're not submitting news stories, the solution is pretty easy.

In Internet Explorer:
Tools -> Options -> General
Click "Accessibility." Check "Ignore font sizes."

Now View -> Text Size will increase the text size.

Occasionally, you will come across a page that doesn't format correctly. Use View -> Text size to decrease the text size in those cases.
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anagami

...they are work-arounds, but the default size should be bigger. It may use relative (medium, large, etc) not absolute (10, 12, etc) sizes...