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Why are MacOS / IOS apps becoming less accessible to low vision users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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 :(