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Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
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Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#32The existing HN CSP policy allows inline styles. A bookmarklet which just does the following would work: document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(d => d.style.fontSize='20px') I find it odd that mobile browsers don't allow you to set the font size like desktop browsers do.
Awesome! I was creating a style element and added it to the head. The CSP do not allow that.
Now that I know I can alter the elements directly, I will do that instead.
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Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#33If you are using the Opera browser on Android, then when you zoom, the text resizes but then reflows to fit on the screen. I cannot fathom why the other phone browsers do not have this feature, it makes every site readable without any scrolling left or right.
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#34I have impaired vision myself and I find HN to be one of the most accessible sites around. I have set all font sizes to 32-point and do not allow any smaller fonts. Also I have chosen a font that easy to read for me and do not allow sites to select any other fonts. On bad days I disable CSS so I can have my default bright-on-dark color scheme. Using these settings, HN is a pleasure to read! Other sites suffer, of cou…
These sound like solutions for the desktop? I'm looking for a solution for mobile. Well, thanks to mike-cardwell, I have one now!
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#35For the iPad, you could try a browser app called iCab mobile. It comes with an extension to increase the text size. That works with HN as well.
See it in action in this screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nh9kjn4vgec694l/IMG_0073.JPG
(If alternate browsers count as „use an app“ advice, I apologize for my suggestion.)
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#36I have impaired vision myself and I find HN to be one of the most accessible sites around. I have set all font sizes to 32-point and do not allow any smaller fonts. Also I have chosen a font that easy to read for me and do not allow sites to select any other fonts. On bad days I disable CSS so I can have my default bright-on-dark color scheme. Using these settings, HN is a pleasure to read! Other sites suffer, of cou…
These sound like solutions for the desktop? I'm looking for a solution for mobile. Well, thanks to mike-cardwell, I have one now!
I'm using the same approach on my smartphone. Good to hear you found a solution!
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#37>> As a programmer I know how bad the app security models are. Don't understand this. What does this mean? And then do you not use any apps at all?
No, I don't use apps.
Apps can do millions of things you don't want an untrusted party to do on your device.
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#38I can't help but wonder how you are going to read all the responses here?
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#39Magnifying glass? Or how about a magnifying monocle?
Accessibility settings on ipad has some zoom features too.
Or just write a quick scraper.
Re: Ask HN: My eyesight is not good enough to read HN. What can I do?
#40Just wanted to comment to raise awareness for those of us without 20/20 eyesight. HN staff: please consider having a typographer/UI designer make a few improvements to the base stylesheet. I realize the codebase may be old, but it's a paragon of Lisp purity so it should be easy to change, no? ;)
My experience ist that everytime a designer touches a website things get worse :) Current example: The Reddit redesign. It's a nightmare. Changes to HN that would help me are: Get rid of the CSP headers Change the output so that the browsers reader mode can understand it.
If only there was some sort of mechanism to decouple the content from the design. Some sort of "sheet" of styles, that different users could choose according to their own preferences. It could even be targeted to specific dimensions and devices.