Questions regarding UI Options: Minimum text size

[Michelle D'Souza]

One of the reasons that we changed from having a text size setting to  
having a minimum text size setting was because it's important for  
people to be able to specify the smallest they can see. If we only set  
a base size, things that are scaled down from there may not be  
readable for the user.  The current experience is not correct however,  
it does do more then just set a base size - it also removes FSS  
classes that scale down the text size.

I have a suggestion for a possible implementation change. We have  
decided that it is important for integrators to specify their defaults  
in order for UIOptions to behave correctly. We could add a setting in  
the defaultSiteSettings called 'baseTextSize'. Then setting the  
minimum text size could check if the size is larger then the  
integrator specified base text size. If it is, we would set the base  
font for the user to the size they had specified and remove the scaled  
down text sizes. If not we would only remove the scaled down text  
sizes that are scaled to smaller then the base text size and leave  
everything else the same.

Michelle


On 23-Mar-09, at 2:42 PM, a.cheetham at utoronto.ca wrote:

>
> I have a question about the meaning of "Minimum text size" in the UI  
> Options dialog.
>
> My understanding of the purpose of "Minimum text size" is to enlarge  
> things that are smaller than the desired minimum, but to leave alone  
> anything that is already larger than the minimum. The current  
> implementation does not do this.
>
> I've filed a JIRA about this that describes how to view the scenario:
>
>    http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2394
>
> I've discussed the implementation with Michelle and Jacob. It seems  
> that it isn't really technically possible to implement what I expect  
> "minimum text size" to do, as described above.
>
> My question is: If we can't do this, should we be offering to do it?
>
> Maybe given what we *can* technically do, the control should be  
> labelled "Base text size"
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -- 
> Anastasia Cheetham                   a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Software Designer, Fluid Project
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
>
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Michelle D'Souza
Software Developer, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
University of Toronto