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<div style="color:black;"><strong>Status: Under construction, but necessary informations are present. Needs to be organized into a guideline.</strong></div>
Reducing text size (for example,
#The first usability issues 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, so we don't want to make it even smaller.
#The second and third issues are both usability and accessibility issues. First, users with low vision that have severe low vision (but are still able to read really large fonts) use dedicated software to enlarge or reduce the text size. So they will be able to read it. But when the normal text size changes to a very small text size, they may have to adjust their zoom level only for this particular text, and readjust it afterwards. It's suboptimal, but not detrimental.
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