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detaro4y ago· 5 in thread

Websites have that ability, both in CSS with types that are defined relative to the users set font size, and to detect it in JS. The platforms capability is not the problem here.

bornfreddy4y ago

This. HTML was actually created to be accessible by default. One needs to make an effort (unfortunately not very big effort) to break it.

agustOP4y ago

Hmm really? How do you do that? The `rem` and `em` CSS units do not reflect iOS font-size settings if this is what you mean (I don't know about Android).

extra884y ago

It's true that mobile Safari seems to lack a setting for default font size or what Mac Safari has, a minimum font size setting.

It does have a default Page Zoom setting and it will remember Page Zoom changes per-domain (e.g. I have this site set to 115%).

There is a way for web sites to make use of iOS's Dynamic Type setting [0] to make text larger, but it's up to each site's author to include the requisite values in their CSS.

[0] https://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/blog/text-resizing-...

rascul4y ago

1 rem is supposed to be the font size of the root element. 1 em is the font size of the parent. If a browser isn't implementing those in such a manner then it seems like it would be a bug.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

detaro4y ago

Does Safari not have a UI for the user to set a font-size preference? Most browser do.

silon424y ago

Even native apps are often broken when you enable "large fonts". I've used large fonts since forever and even now are using 1440p on 32" screen (I'm not wearing glasses or anything).

lupire4y ago

What do you mean?

Browsers are native apps, so they already do that for websites.

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