On 2013-06-18 13:51 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 15:02 -0500, John Morris wrote:
though because.... well because.
What I'm saying is that there isn't a quick fix to this, which is what Felix always suggests; his suggestions always boil down to "make the fonts bigger! now!"
The urgency is because it's inanely long overdue. Whenever it was that F17 was forked from Rawhide it had long been known current device densities were wider in range, averaging higher than the past, and accelerating upward further. The reason they aren't already averaging higher than they are is lack of software capability holding back their utility, causing manufacturer caution to hold back tooling investment unlikely to be recouped through sales.
I'm not saying make text bigger unconditionally. I'm saying text needs to be sized in a reasonable (aka fully rational) relationship to both device density and user characteristics, not stuffing gray 9px or 10px text down the throats of all regardless of their hardware or visual acuity.
I'm also saying that those who need text bigger than average need an accessible way to have it.
Everyone not legally blind ought to be able to use a normally equipped generic PC if he wants or needs to. The stumbling blocks to a state that it were so are a shameful paradox, considering the power of computers and related technology. The way it is now is like it was for coloreds before Martin Luther King's legacy, unable to go places and do things because of the misfortune of being born with the wrong skin color, only now it's the misfortune of eyesight not as good as naive and/or inconsiderate software creators.
The only solace for today's visually challenged is that today's young software creators lucky enough to reach old age and accumulate the wisdom that should accompany it will in fact survive to old age, where likely good eyesight will exist only in what's left of their cranial memories.
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