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by alwillis 1318 days ago
> I also considered switching to iOS. But Safari doesn't even have a text scaling / sizing option. The only thing I could do on iOS is reader mode in Safari, but that's also site dependent. And I still have to pinch-zoom to set my text size every time I open a page.

Apple basically invented the ability to dynamically resize browser text back in iOS 7 [1].

If you go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and set Larger Text to On, you make the text as large as you like.

If you only want bigger text in iOS Safari, the popup menu allows you to resize the text on the fly.

[1]: https://www.tpgi.com/text-resizing-web-pages-ios-using-dynam...
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alex3305 1318 days ago
> If you only want bigger text in iOS Safari, the popup menu allows you to resize the text on the fly.

Which also zooms in on the content, thus only letting me see part of the total width of the page. Which results in me having to both scroll horizontally and vertically.

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alwillis 1318 days ago
Which also zooms in on the content, thus only letting me see part of the total width of the page. Which results in me having to both scroll horizontally and vertically.

Depends on the site; if they coded it correctly and met accessibility guidelines [1], it would support text sizing of 200% or more. Given the state of CSS today, it’s not difficult to make the text wrap within the viewpoint even at bigger sizes so you wouldn’t have to scroll.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/?showtechniques=144#r...

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alex3305 1318 days ago
> Depends on the site; if they coded it correctly and met accessibility guidelines, it would support text sizing of 200% or more.

I agree. But the cold, hard truth is that it just doesn't work.

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