<story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polotics</author><text>A simple rule:
Minimum font size &amp;gt;= Age of oldest attendee</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve become &amp;quot;that guy&amp;quot; in presentations who constantly tells people &amp;quot;fonts too small&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;can&amp;#x27;t read cause the contrast isn&amp;#x27;t enough&amp;quot;, 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.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&amp;gt; ... a small minority ... presbyopia ...&lt;p&gt;I think what you just indirectly pointed out is that software is largely written by young, ignorant people who don&amp;#x27;t appreciate that &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; will get to experience presbyopia, and it happens sooner than you think.  Maybe we should require product owners to be at least 40 years old ;-).</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;For instance,  normally sighted people or even people with &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; nearsightedness,  farsightedness,  or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.&lt;p&gt;Text &amp;quot;size&amp;quot; is another thing because people should be able to control it,  particularly given the wide range of different devices that are out there.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>I think 20 years olds can read fonts smaller than 20 light years just fine.  In facts, font that big may in fact be rather troublesome…</text></comment>
<story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polotics</author><text>A simple rule:
Minimum font size &amp;gt;= Age of oldest attendee</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve become &amp;quot;that guy&amp;quot; in presentations who constantly tells people &amp;quot;fonts too small&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;can&amp;#x27;t read cause the contrast isn&amp;#x27;t enough&amp;quot;, 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.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&amp;gt; ... a small minority ... presbyopia ...&lt;p&gt;I think what you just indirectly pointed out is that software is largely written by young, ignorant people who don&amp;#x27;t appreciate that &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; will get to experience presbyopia, and it happens sooner than you think.  Maybe we should require product owners to be at least 40 years old ;-).</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;For instance,  normally sighted people or even people with &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; nearsightedness,  farsightedness,  or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.&lt;p&gt;Text &amp;quot;size&amp;quot; is another thing because people should be able to control it,  particularly given the wide range of different devices that are out there.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agust</author><text>What about giving websites and web apps the ability to detect the font size preference of the user to automatically adjust the font size?&lt;p&gt;Just like native apps do...?</text></comment>