consider people with poor vision

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 14:57 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-06-15 08:08 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> >> I would want (for F20 if possible) to be able to change the font size easily.
> 
> > It's really not technically possible to do that with how anaconda's
> > written.
> 
> I suspect the solution is both possible, and easier than you think. Likely 
> it's constructed in similar fashion to web pages that size in pixels instead 
> of characters (em/rem/ex) or fractions thereof. Dispensing with pixel values 
> of more than a single digit for sizing anything other than bitmap images 
> unleashes the natural adaptability of a display screen that doesn't apply to 
> designing for paper.

No, that's not the point at all. The point is that there is only so much
space for text in the UI. Have you tried running anaconda in Japanese or
German at 800x600? When there's too much text on a spoke (those are both
languages which use a lot of characters to say the same thing compared
to English), the display of the spoke becomes entirely corrupted.

> >  The UI is to an extent written around the text. You can't just
> > change all the text to be 20pt in size and still have the UI work; stuff
> > just doesn't _fit_ any more.
> 
> > I'm going to look up some a11y guidelines from respectable institutions
> > and file a few bugs on things it might be plausible to fix, but it's not
> > any kind of simple 'implement ctrl+' fix, I'm afraid.
> 
> I've filed the first one for you:
> 
> X forced DPI = 96 on displays natively > 96 DPI causes a11y issues
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974780

Well, no, that's absolutely useless and just reviving a decade old
bikeshed. That is not what I was planning to do at all. Fixed 96dpi is a
ship that's sailed.
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