Ctrl +/mousewheel should enlarge text size in the Music Store

[Matt Perry]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store

The text in the Ubuntu One music store is just a bit too small, which makes it difficult to use for older people such as myself. The text in the store is is 8 pixels high compared to the text in the rest of Rhythmbox which is 10 pixels high. My expectation is that the text should be as least as large as in the rest of the Rhythmbox application. This is particularly important since there are larger amounts of text in the store than the rest of the application.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 07:31:56 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store 0.0.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[Stuart Langridge (sil)]

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On 03/23/2010 02:41 PM, Matt Perry wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store
>
> The text in the Ubuntu One music store is just a bit too small, which
> makes it difficult to use for older people such as myself. The text in
> the store is is 8 pixels high compared to the text in the rest of
> Rhythmbox which is 10 pixels high. My expectation is that the text
> should be as least as large as in the rest of the Rhythmbox application.
> This is particularly important since there are larger amounts of text in
> the store than the rest of the application.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Mar 23 07:31:56 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
> Package: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store 0.0.5-0ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
> SourcePackage: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64
>
> ** Affects: rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: accessibility amd64 apport-bug lucid
>
 assignee mat.tomaszewski
 tag 7digital

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[Stuart Langridge (sil)]

We should support the ctrl+mousewheel shortcut for enlarging/shrinking text in the music store, as web browsers do.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

Thanks for raising this issue.

The music store is a website displayed within Rhythmbox, and it uses the standard font size, which provides good balance between aesthetics and readability for most users. However, users with impaired vision should ideally be able to use the same array of options as they do when browsing the web (like ctrl + key combination to enlarge the page). We are currently investigating all the possible solutions to this problem, so please stay tuned :)

[Matt Perry (mp)]

ctrl+mousewheel is likely too obscure for most users and is non-discoverable. I recommend text links somewhere at the top of the page to change the text size. These links should change the active stylesheet when clicked.

See the top of the page at http://www.postgresql.org/ for an example.