Re: Font resizing in OSX
Re: Font resizing in OSX
- Subject: Re: Font resizing in OSX
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:37:31 +0200
On 22 Jul 2015, at 17:35, Drake, Ted <email@hidden> wrote:
> Our product uses web views to surface the majority of content within the
> main section of the screen. The rest is native code. What I notice is that
> the entire screen does not react to “command” + “+”. I don’t have insight
> into the code yet, so I’d like to know what are the best practices for
> making fonts scalable within OSX.
Yeah, if you have a styled text editor, then Cmd-+ and Cmd+- will cause the current selection's size to change. But this is not a general thing that works in UI (nor would users expect that to work for a regular UI). The only app that does that for the entire page is Safari, because so many web sites show up as tiny. I think you can get a similar effect by changing the -textSizeMultiplier property on your WebView.
> I’ve gone into other programs, such as Outlook, and was able to increase
> the font sizes. However, this may be because I was looking at products
> that use text editors. So perhaps the solution is to modify the display
> settings within the personal preferences and our code is adequate.
What personal preferences? Anyway, it sounds like a weird thing you're trying to do here, and an unusual thing to do in general. So unless this text resizing thing is a feature inherent in your application, I'd recommend you don't do it, as resizing the text in a window is not a typical feature in a Mac application at all. There are other mechanisms for Accessibility support and Section 508 compliance for people who need it built into the system, so you don't need to roll your own, and in fact might be breaking something by doing so.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachtText are everywhere..."
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