@jnurthen not sure who you're addressing, but I'm here. I had to load Instantbird last night to give it time to calm down so I could use it for Slack meetings today.
[car]@jamesn web components - yay! How long 'til I can create some? <grin>
(Seriously, though, they are a great idea, and I'm looking forward to using them someday).
[car] Just guessing that was one of the first bugs reported after the feature went in... someone probably really wanted to try zooming in incognito mode... ;)
[car] I'm actually curious how well the "Change font size" feature works in most pages, if anyone uses that feature regularly. There's a warning about it on the google support page for the feature: "Note: Some websites don't let browsers change only the text size. For those sites, Chrome won’t be able to adjust the font size." (from https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96810?hl=en) There's even a "Minimum font size" setting on the "Customize fonts..." dialog.
Unlike Desktop-level font sizing, I don't know that browsers can override a base font set on the html element
I know if I set my Desktop setting to something huge, everything's huge except I think px fonts. I would have to try again to be sure. Last time I did it was a few Desktops ago and it wasn't consistant accross applications, so I had to turn it back down
meaning, some application buttons would be large as I needed but others would stay too small
It's also hard to use if you have any toolbars on your toolbars on your browser bars, which I did at the time
This gitter page for example
uses px fonts
because designers always know better than users what users need. :(
[car]@powrsurg I guess they have a hardware category on their web accessibility site. A bit odd...
The breadcrumb at the top of that link says: Best Practices>Hardware, Telecommunications, and ACS>
[car]@StommePoes If you do try it out, please let us know if it's cool or useless - would be interesting to know whether it's worth recommending to folks.
@car: if you're low-vision enough that you need your applications themselves to be larger, so far as I know that's the only way is by setting it in your window-manager (not browser) settings, or use a screen magnifyer.
That's what I meant by if you have a lot of toolbars, it's not nice
And yeah text-enlarge-only can't override some designer setting fonts in px. The fact that my team is setting everything in pixels is currently making steam come out my head, because they're basically insisting everyone have tiny-ass text.
Oh and they think everyone has a default of 16px.
I told them otherwise but "people who set different application font sizes" and "kindles" are too rare to care about.
Meh, time to go to bed and let the world do whatever it's going to do anyway.
There's already some rems mixed in from anotehr team
and it causes our Selenium tester to list long lists of possible pixel units
which is why I don't think we should be writing tests that tests "x is so-many px away from y" tests
grrr, I need a focus trap but it's hidden because nobody wants to see it, which breaks WCAG guideline for "visible focus" but I can't use the last-focusable, which is visible, because other things can come along and randomly add/remove content (and focusables) from inside my component.
We really need JS to add some way of just saying "this element is a single context until it is closed"
Gitter Channel Archive 19th of September 2016
