Doctor my eyes...

May 14, 2009 10:39 PM

OK, so I know I can enlarge text in Fire Fox and Chrome and so forth.. but a growing number of of sites (e.g The New Yorker) provide the ability to resize text (usually 3 choices) and it's cookie stored so that every time the site is revisited, that text size is..automatacilly, magically, there. I don't personally need it, but I bet some older folks do. 'oh yes I do', he mumbled
posted by dawson to Feature Requests at 10:39 PM (6 comments total)

In your user profile area, you can select the font and the size used for the site. Did you notice that?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:42 PM on May 14, 2009

I did not. Thank you. Although I fail (among many failures) to understand why it can't be more obvious.
posted by dawson at 10:49 PM on May 14, 2009

Actually, it is pretty obvious. When you sign up for your account, and log in with it the first time, you're taken to your profile page to fill it out.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:51 PM on May 14, 2009

that was a couple years ago and I don't hang out on that page...besides, the New Yorker (for another example) makes it clearly obvious :) "user-friendly" to coin a phrase...
posted by dawson at 10:57 PM on May 14, 2009

do it Burhanistan...it's like stress relief:)
posted by dawson at 11:10 PM on May 14, 2009

Yeah, it's on the prefs page. The New Yorker puts it on their page themselves because they don't have user accounts or prefs or anything like that.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:13 PM on May 14, 2009