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How to make this type larger
2.19.06
If you're like me, you're increasingly finding that the tiny type on websites is hard to read.
I don't have reading glasses (yet) and don't seem to need them to read books or magazines or newspapers.
But I found a quick keyboard shortcut that makes all the type on a website larger.
Ctrl-Shift-+
hold down all three at the same time.
This works with Firefox -- I don't know if it also works with other browsers, but what are you doing not using Firefox anyway?
There's also a dropdown option -- click View, Text size, and then another option (Increase, Decrease, Normal) -- but that's three steps instead of one and requires a mouse click.
Keyboard shortcuts rule.
Try Control key and scroll on your wheel mouse.
Helps when your webbuilder has variable viewer font size preference in mind early on in the design stage , too!
2/18/2006
very cool tip! who knew?
Is there an equivalent for a touchpad on a laptop?
So I take it from what you're saying that webmasters need to build into their code the ability of a browser to make the type bigger? This would explain why occasionally i do get to a site that won't let me increase the type size. I guess that's bad planning on the part of the webmaster.
2/19/2006
Yeah, seems to be Control, and the touchpad equivalent of your scroll wheel on my Emachine.
And I have been amazed at the incompetence of those webnasters who spec sites so they cannot be sized to viewer preference. Your site will also increase table sizes appropriately, maintaining those elements of the layout that contribute to the meaning (i.e. Navigation elements, column organization, etc.), and could in fact be read by a visually impaired viewer at an extreme font size. Likewise, clean (handwritten!) HTML can facilitate machine readers (text to voice).
As I have often said, web design ain't how it looks, it is how it works!
dlm
2/19/2006
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...sites that work