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Accessibility - font size

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RareGoalsVerge · 13/05/2025 08:49

I need a large font to be able to read comfortably and mumsnet seems to have been deliberately coded to override the accessibility settings in my browser.

I am using an samsung android phone and a Chrome browser. I usually have the accessibility settings on 140% for comfortable reading.

The first image is a random forum page with the accessibility settings in te browser set at 100% (ie normal). The second image is what I get with accessibility settings at 140% - it is almost imperceptibly bigger. By pixels it is possibly about 10% larger. I took screengrabs too of the same page with the accessibility settings at 190%, 240% and 300% and they are all identical, there is no further increase. The coding on the site just gives a big F>ck You to visual impairment - one size fits all, if you need a bigger text size then 10% is the maximum allowed.

I can read a post by using the two-finger "zoom" instead but this means I only see half of each line on screen at a time, and have to constantly swipe right and left every few words which is a very arduous way to read and means I often miss details and cannot possibly read the whole thread and keep my sanity intact.

I know how web page coding works. You do not have to override users' needs like this. Please stop excluding people with visual impairments like this.

Accessibility - font size
Accessibility - font size

HebeMumsnet · 14/05/2025 11:13

Hi there @RareGoalsVerge,

Thanks for getting in touch about this. We haven't implemented anything to cap any of the accessibility settings, so that won't be the issue, but we have tested them on our side and we can see there definitely does seem to be a problem of some kind.

We're looking into it now and will come back with more information once we have it. Thanks again for flagging this.

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