Web Designer Blindness
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I'm going slowly bind and I blame web designers. Practically every web site I visit, I have to crank up the font. I'm quick with the CTRL+Plus hot key combo. I might actually use Key Config to change it to a simpler combination.
Hey everyone, take two big steps back from your desk, and try to read your own web site. If you can't read it, give us a few points increase, would ya? Thanks... Come to think of it, I can barely read the text on Podo. I'll have to increase it. Then again, I hardly ever read Podo :-)
Update: "I did it, yeah?" I changed my key config to be PLUS (actually EQUAL) for increased size, MINUS for decreased size, and 0 for default size.
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Well yeah - that's a factor too. Plus staring at a computer screen all day.
Nancy
Jul 4, 2008
Mama teased me when I got my LCD because I was like OH CRAP I can see it without my contacts!
Yes! Too many pages use small fonts AND low-contrast colour schemes, so they look more like wallpaper than readable text.
By the way, you can make web pages less tiring to read by using an off-white background (fefefe).
How to Put Your Face Next to Your Comment
Jul 4, 2008
or maybe its just old age setting in??? I already wear contacts lol