absolute font sizing and size smaller than default creates accessibility and usability difficulties
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This was addressed earlier by a different bug #. Work was done & it was fixed. The issues were well described there, but I can no longer find it to reference it. Maybe it was purged.
When fonts are rendered smaller than the user's default, it is creates accessibility/
Setting fonts to a fixed size in pixels can easily result in that problem.
Setting fonts in points is better because it the user's monitor DPI will be used to scale the font.
Using relative sizing to the user specified default is the best and 'proper' way. The web browser has defaults for some relative sizes for types of text built in.
To prevent illegible font sizes, FireFox has the feature to enforce a minimum font size. This can result in some UI problems. 1 is shown in the attachment.
| Kiri (kiri) wrote | #1 |
| Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote | #2 |
| affects: | launchpad → launchpad-foundations |
| Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
All web browsers have a minimum font size and we recommend that users enable it. Launchpad is using YUI which makes all the fonts the same across many browsers and operating systems. This also also surprised Launchpad users that were seeing larger fonts.