Usability of D for Visually Impaired Users
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Sep 5 14:11:35 PDT 2016
On 9/5/2016 2:52 AM, Chris wrote:
> Sorry, I sure ain't gonna list all conditions between 20/20 and blind. This is
> about IT not PC ;) Anyone who can see normally with or without glasses has
> "normal sight" _in this context_. If you need a 500% zoom to discern letters on
> the screen, you are visually impaired (but not blind). There are people who use
> zoom and screen readers at the same time etc. But that's beyond the point we're
> discussing.
True, but too many sites lose their formatting if one increases the font size
with the Ctrl-+ command. Us >50 fossils who wear progressive lenses get tired of
bobbing heads to read the screen and just boost the font a bit.
You can always tell a user interface designed by a youngling :-)
This was a few years ago, but Apple's web site technical documentation used to
use a tiny grey font on a white background. It was literally painful to read,
making me just not want to support OSX.
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