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Do yourself a favor and go increase the text size (not zoom!) in your browser's (if not OS's) settings.

the_other 2y ago
Please don’t give disabled people unsolicited advice on how to cope with the world. We know far more about our conditions and tools than you ever will.
- chrismorgan 2y ago
  No one even said anything about disability. Almost everyone that lives long enough to get old will end up in such a situation, and many will be in such situations in relative youth, and we don’t tend to consider it disability. Many are the people that use tech, have poor eyesight, and struggle because they don’t know about things like browser or OS zoom or text size adjustment facilities. They just get used to using things in their own idiosyncratic way, and don’t realise better is possible. In my limited experience of enlightening such people when I observe it (in person, that is), I think they’ve always been grateful to learn of such functionality, and it significantly improves their experience. (You being on HN makes it much less likely you’ll be unaware of such things, but still⸺.) If you’re struggling with every other web page, and find this one good, while others are agreeing it’s bad (and, more objectively, it’s unquestionably atypical); if they’re pointing out that there’s a way of effectively applying the difference that you liked in this page, to all pages—well, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Anyway, whether you care to employ it or not (and that is certainly up to you), deredede’s advice is very solid in general. There are a lot of people out there that would benefit from it.
  - the_other 2y ago
    Stop trying to belittle and marginalise my experience. It’s disrespectful and insensitive. It’s important that atypical experiences get some kind of exposure. On the web, there’s actually a chance those atypical needs may get a solution, because it’s comparatively cheap to produce accessible versions or modifications (compared to modifying buildings and transport, for example). I raised a counterpoint to the general consensus because no similar point had yet been raised and now I’ve had six paragraphs on why I’ve been doing it wrong. Very disappointing.
    - chrismorgan 2y ago
      You invented offence at deredede’s reasonably-expressed recommendation.

Please don’t give disabled people unsolicited advice on how to cope with the world. We know far more about our conditions and tools than you ever will.

chrismorgan 2y ago
No one even said anything about disability. Almost everyone that lives long enough to get old will end up in such a situation, and many will be in such situations in relative youth, and we don’t tend to consider it disability. Many are the people that use tech, have poor eyesight, and struggle because they don’t know about things like browser or OS zoom or text size adjustment facilities. They just get used to using things in their own idiosyncratic way, and don’t realise better is possible. In my limited experience of enlightening such people when I observe it (in person, that is), I think they’ve always been grateful to learn of such functionality, and it significantly improves their experience. (You being on HN makes it much less likely you’ll be unaware of such things, but still⸺.) If you’re struggling with every other web page, and find this one good, while others are agreeing it’s bad (and, more objectively, it’s unquestionably atypical); if they’re pointing out that there’s a way of effectively applying the difference that you liked in this page, to all pages—well, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Anyway, whether you care to employ it or not (and that is certainly up to you), deredede’s advice is very solid in general. There are a lot of people out there that would benefit from it.
- the_other 2y ago
  Stop trying to belittle and marginalise my experience. It’s disrespectful and insensitive. It’s important that atypical experiences get some kind of exposure. On the web, there’s actually a chance those atypical needs may get a solution, because it’s comparatively cheap to produce accessible versions or modifications (compared to modifying buildings and transport, for example). I raised a counterpoint to the general consensus because no similar point had yet been raised and now I’ve had six paragraphs on why I’ve been doing it wrong. Very disappointing.
  - chrismorgan 2y ago
    You invented offence at deredede’s reasonably-expressed recommendation.