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I've become "that guy" in presentations who constantly tells people "fonts too small", "can't read cause the contrast isn't enough", etc... My hope over time is that I stop being invited to meetings or people actually take the time to fix their presentations before it is presented to a wider audience.
A simple rule: Minimum font size >= Age of oldest attendee
Absolutely everything that isn't default browser zoom is broken. It's the wrong speed, or cuts at the wrong place. Basically it's always surprising in an annoying way.
Then there's the "frustratingly slow scroll to navigate". E.g. go to https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing and click on the last nav on the left.
I agree I have fat fingers but 8 our of 10 times, I end up opening up the ad. :(
This is somewhat ironic because, if memory serves, the original reason people started adding this to their HTML was because of some dubious scaling behaviour on iOS Safari (I think, if you didn't disable zooming, Safari responded to rotation by zooming the page to fill the new width, rather than laying out the page again).
Yes! I have good eyesight but still frequently zoom for various reasons. The main one is small images and diagrams on responsive websites. Another is clicking small clustered links. In the same vein, if you use images on your responsive website, consider linking to the full size version.
What's really weird is how some sites go out of their way to do this. IG for example, even on desktop, presents a fixed size image and prevents right-click operations on the image. Meanwhile, the full resolution image is actually available if you know how your browser works. Another example is video controls like scrub and speed being unavailable. I would buy this if they downscaled everything before storing it; that…
In Firefox, Shift-right always presents the browser context menu. It's one of the few distinguishing features they haven't screwed up yet.
It’s not just accessibility. I’ve last track of the number of times I’ve seen a mobile website with a table that extends past the right side of the viewport and zoom disabled. You can’t scroll, and you can’t zoom, so you can’t read the table.
Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone. For instance, normally sighted people or even people with "normal" nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast. Text "size" is another thing because people should be able to control it, particularly given the wide range of different devic…
Makes me think of the oxo good grips kitchen utensils. They were designed designed for people with poor dexterity and as a result have become easier for everyone, this has made them extent l extremely popular
>In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” >In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”
OMFG, thank you.