Partially blind guy here with an #a11y PSA:
I'm seing a trend away from "Text Size" sliders or old fashioned font dialogs and towards a few set choices "Default", "Large","Larger", etc.
This is a HUGE step backwards. Your 'larger' is *never* large enough for my crazy busted eyeballs when I'm using my 34" monitor.
If you must do this, please be sure to add "Largest" and even "ZOMG ARE YOU SERIOUS LARGE" options. Some of us REALLY need them, even if it seems insane to you.
THIS
Also, please, please don't lock us into crazy UI colour schemes - certain combinations are impossible for me to read for longer than 30 seconds and then I have to invert the screen to see if it's better and *then* all the grafs are inverted and arghh.
Please, please let us adjust font sizes and colour palettes. It makes a huge difference, it really does.
When I have to give up on a new app because I physically can't use it, it's always a kick in the nads.
Amen! As a low-vision user, I need to tune colors, contrast, brightness, and text size to work on a computer. Many standalone apps offer completely inadequate tuning options. Many web apps actively subvert the browser settings and a11y plugins I use. It's all profoundly dispiriting. It would be so easy to make life vastly better for people like us. 🙁
THIS - when apps override OS-level accessibilty, WHY?
Why won't you let me have large text, you utter dicks??
Example: the iOS Twitch app won't let you have larger text than standard. But on Android, you can make the system text massive *and* the Twitch app text matches.
Why this disparity?
Why do developers have against large text? If it breaks your UI, then your UI needs to be cured of its ableism.
This is higher than my geek level but maybe @mdm can answer your question, if they have time?
@Jyoti @dhamlinmusic @isomeme @feoh I'm not an iOS developer by trade, but typically the teams who make the Android and iOS versions of an app aren't even the same team at a company -- often the creation of these apps is contracted to other companies entirely.
If the iOS Twitch app isn't matching the iOS accessbility settings, apparently the contractor/team who works on the Twitch Android app has more of a care for accessibility. This is something Twitch needs to fix.
@mdm @dhamlinmusic @isomeme @feoh
It's a right pain - in the end, I gave up and bought a whole new Honor Android tablet even though I have a perfectly (otherwise) usable iPad!
But you cannot increase the text size and it's impossible for me to read people's live comments, unless I pick up the iPad and hold it in front of my face.
*sigh*
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