Post #2809177
2026-01-31 22:48 UTC
@Lukew@toot.wales @jscholes@dragonscave.space I'm hoping the current state of affairs will be seen as a quirks mode for text scaling and we'll move on to a standard way of doing it.
If we fix it by default, so many websites break (which you see by scaling up text on a desktop browser and simulating a mobile viewport).
And if that's people's experience browsing the web, I worry they're going to stop using text scaling and see it as a broken and unreliable accessibility feature.
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@Lukew@toot.wales 2026-01-31 22:54
@joshtumath@mastodon.social @jscholes@dragonscave.space This is where my disagreement is (please don't take this to be argumentative I don't intend for that at all) but the situation today for people with text scaling *is* broken and unreliable. They've asked for big text and they aren't getting it. If this is opt-in I think we really should rally to get sites to adopt it. Lighthouse should flag it as missing. Eventually Google should flag it as an negative for indexing (they already do if you have too small click targets).