On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 00:29 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 09/16/11 8:29 PM, Always Learning wrote:
Perhaps the Centos web site should be simple, practical, helpful in preference to emulating the very latest presentation gimmicks ? A larger font size will be useful for most people over 40 years of age.
about 700 years ago, give or take a century, they invented these things called 'eyeglasses' for us older folks.
Do you realise they were probably only 10 months of the year then and, in the western world, New Year's Day was circa 1 April ? And such luxuries as 'eye glasses' were not available to the vast majority of people, many of whom had never heard of them.
I'm 57, have typical age induced astigmatism and have worn bifocals since I was about 45... I use high res screens and have no trouble with the centos site's readability, its fonts are the standard size for the DPI I choose on my screens (typically 100dpi), with standard system defaults, the centos fonts are pretty much the same size as wikipedia, google searches, and nearly every other website.
Centos is a gigantic world-wide free service used on uncountable (tens? hundreds? of) millions of machines from the latest data centre blade servers to notebooks. Inevitably some people somewhere may not be able to afford spectacles and High Resolution computer screens. Centos should be about usability and accessibility, as an operating system and as documentation including the web site.
I noticed the small size of the typeface* on www.centos.org. An examination reveals
div class="blockContent"
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution ....
A further examination reveals the font size is set in
centercolumn
font-size: 12px;
and it is not black
color: #464646;
I rather strongly dislike 'easy reader' pages with giant fonts, they feel like they are dumbed down for 1st graders and take far too much scrolling to read any significant content.
No person suggested 'easy reader' whatever that is. No person suggested 'giant fonts'. What was stated was:
" A larger font size will be useful for most people over 40 years of age. "
In the context of the small, 12 PX, typeface used on www.centos.org, a larger font size means
13px, 14px, 15px, 16px, 17px, 18px ....... et cetera.
Thus my comment was reasonable, proportionate and sensible.
Anyways, most every browser has a zoom function for those who refuse to wear corrective lenses, often alt + and alt - ...
Readers of material in browsers should not have to routinely alter their browser's display settings to compensate for poorly designed web sites.