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by tokenadult 4895 days ago
Thank you for sharing the Contrast Rebellion link. I will link to that from the updating version of the colophon of my personal website as I do personal website updates this year. I wish I could upvote that link more than once, as there are many websites posted in designs with too little contrast for reading.

And speaking of readability, there are still too many sites that break if a user resizes the browser font size (done with CTRL-+ or an analogous Apple command on most browsers), although that is not a problem with the site kindly submitted here to open this thread.

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Thank you for bringing up the font scaling issues.. I do about 2/3 of my casual reading on the TV, from the couch (HTPC), and usually have to scale to 125% for readability.. I hate when the font is already too small AND doesn't scale properly.

A point made in the article is important to me as well... there are times when zooming on my phone is important too, and sites/apps that disable this ability make it painful.. I tend to make the initial size device with, and limit scaling to 1-2x, which is generally enough. I wish that more people paid attention to scaling, especially given higher pixel displays on the horizon, and already in mobile devices.

Might I ask what browser you're using?

Older browsers used to just resize the font inline, and leave other elements alone, but most modern browsers resize everything these days when you use those commands, so sites shouldn't look any different when scaled up or down. It's been this way for a long time, it seems.