Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Readability guidelines: Difference between revisions

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Reducing text size causes usability issues:

# The first usability issuesissue to consider is [[readability]]. An extensive number of usability studies were made about the impact of text size on readability. It was clearly stated that small text makes it way harder to read, for example by reducing reading speed: if a text with comfortable size would be read by average users in 15 seconds, the same small size text would be read in 27 seconds. The default font size on Wikipedia is already too small (9 points instead of 12 points), so we don't want to make it even smaller.

# The biggest usability issue is for elders (and possibly anyone older than 40), normal users with small low vision and normal users with a particular resolution, device, and such. A significant partnumber of these users doesndon't know how to zoom with their browser. They might not know how to use "Ctrl +/-", or they forget it. So when they encounter such small text they have trouble to readreading, their only option is to come very close to the screen and strain their eyes as much as they can. Until they succeed or give up.

For these reasons it is better to not reduce the size of the body text.

Note that people with a significant visual handicap often have special softwaressoftware to use websites, thus they are not the main target for this guideline.

=== Examples ===

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=== Templates used to resize text ===

* [[Template:Resize]]

=== How to adjust font size for yourself ===

For example, to set the font size of references back to 100% (instead of 90%), add the following code to [[Special:Mypage/skin.css|your CSS page]].

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">