Ask HN: can we fix the tiny HN font size?

5 pointsby PieterHقبل 10 سنوات5 comments

With Chrome on Android, reading HN is really hard for us with failing eyesight. The fonts are tiny and the only solution is to either scale the text size up massively, which breaks all other websites, or continually pinch to zoom, which means lots of left to right scrolling to read a full comment.

How hard would it be to offer a font size option in the user preferences?

I understand that most HN readers are young and have excellent eyesight, yet this is a real accessibility problem.

Afaics it's been like this for years. HN, pretty please, it is dicriminatory. Can we fix this now?

6 comments

dredmorbiusقبل 10 سنوات

Quite, it's horrible. I've emailed HN about this in the past, heard from dang. The recent comment collapse feature is a plus.

Ironically for this post, the "Ask HN" font colors are even worse than most.

alex_hitchinsقبل 10 سنوات

I have been bumping up the zoom level recently as I'm finding it hard to read. Also, the grey text on the (yellow?) background is somewhat hard to scan at times.

brudgersقبل 10 سنوات

My advice: contact the moderators using the link at the bottom of this page.

PieterHقبل 10 سنوات

That's an excellent suggestion. I've done it. Thank you! :)

HoopleHeadقبل 10 سنوات

I mostly read the site on a tablet and the font sizes are microscopic, especially in the comments.

brudgersقبل 10 سنوات