I've noticed in recent years that more and more apps only offer "small, medium, large" font size settings. My problem is simple. I am visually impaired and need VERY large fonts.
I need my font size set like this:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/08bSDwyyJZm2X4g1f9iZ6mreA
But instead, with more and more apps like Ivory for example, the biggest I can get is this:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/00eUunqHWyZkEWCuFpHlPmVEA
I suspect that the culprit may be Swift UI, but I have no evidence for this.
Does anyone understand the reasoning behind this trend, and is there any possible fix for end users other than begging application developers to have pity? :)
Thanks!
5 Comments
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y
Libb@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 1y
A bit late to the party but 100% this.
One of the reasons why I've slowly started switching toward Linux, after 35 years being an Apple customer myself, is that I find Linux much more comfortable to use: being 50+ and not having the best eyesight I appreciate being allowed to make the text as big as I need it to be so I can f*cking read it, no matter what some constipated designer decided in their office somewhere at Cupertino.
I like Apple, I won't deny it and I would probably never have even considered using Linux instead of Apple products if it was not for the way they made their design so user-unfriendly. That, and the lack of repairability/upgradability, aka the lack of ownership on our hardware.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Libb@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 1y
We're in the same boat. I can't say I'm happy with that but I know I also like using Linux or I should say the GNU/Linux system as I'm also more and more appreciative of the philosophical part that GNU promotes.
The low-friction you mention is probably one the thing most non-Apple users don't get as, when it works (which is not always the case but often is), a Mac is like butter smooth and help so much getting things done. Linux is not there yet but when I started considered and testing it I was was surprised how usable it was already and, at least, in exchange of that tad more of frictions we do get back that control we have lost to Apple. And that's a compromise I willing to live with — and so are my older eyes that can't read ant-sized texts anymore ;)
It never was great, imho. For some time, I even considered using Windows in place of macOS (since it worked better to make text larger), I even invested in one of Microsoft laptop but I ended up giving it away as I just could not stand all the incoherence within Windows itself (it is such a sad state of affair). Also, I'm not a fan of their telemetry.
The one issue I have not decided on so far, in regard to a full switch, is the phone. I can't stand Google, therefore it doesn't matter how open it is, and I'd rather use harder for as many years as I can (trying to generate as little e-waste as I can) so android looks like a no go for me. I imagine I will probably keep using a dumbed down iPhone, like I have been doing for the last few years, in order to access the very few apps I have to use, IDs, banks and stuff like that...
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Libb@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
but as a project it feels more undead than really alive
:)
Then it's a no go for me. I mean, since it's closed source I'd rather keep using my iPhone which works great and let me access every single one of the few ads I do need.
feoh@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I use the hover text too for discerning the name/nature of UI elements but when it comes to, say, being able to actually read my Fediverse stream in Ivory, that doesn't help much :)
And sure, i can use the full screen zoom feature, which is great, but then I'm trapped in zoomed box purgatory, constantly swooshing my tiny zoomed space around the larger screen.
It's miserable, and all because they've taken away one of the very features that drew me to Mac/IOS/Apple to begin with :(
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Libb@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
Thx for that tip, I will check that as soon as I can, as well as Tinkertool. This may help & it doesn't matter (to me at least) the few issues that may or may not arise by doing that, as long as it makes things more readable to my old eyes ;)