Google+ readability

[Charlie Kravetz]

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I used Gnome Magnification before all the changes started involving
Unity. It has not worked for some time (in years) now. Thus my playing
with DPI to grow the text large enough to see and read it. I have not
played much with Compiz eZoom, myself. I am just getting back into a
position where I will be able to get involved again, and will be
updating documentation for all the Accessibility items in the next
cycle. 

In the meantime, I shall continue to attempt to get some information
out for the Google developers, who seem to be lacking in experience as
far as Accessibility goes. Whether or not I am successful will be
determined by how accessible we manage to get google, right? 

Experience tells me this is going to be a long battle to fight,
however, the results when we gain are well worth it.


On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:14:32 -0700
Robert Cole <rkcole72984 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hello, Charlie.
> 
> do you use any screen magnification on your Linux distribution? If in 
> Ubuntu's Unity you can make use of the Compiz eZoom plugin (which I 
> would often rely on under Unity), and under GNOME Shell, there is a 
> great built-in magnifier which can greatly magnify the screen (even more 
> than the eZoom plugin).
> 
> I am planning on writing a blog entry pretty soon on how to get 
> magnification up and running under both Unity and GNOME Shell. 
> Unfortuantely, I do not think that a magnifier exists for the GNOME 
> Fallback Session at this time.
> 
> If this could be of help to you please let me know, and I will try to 
> write back with teh steps to set up zooming keys. Just please let me 
> know which desktop environment you use. There is also a Zoom feature 
> under KDE as well which works pretty well.
> 
> I hope that I can be of some help to you.
> 
> Take care.
> 
> On 04/12/2012 10:33 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> > I am a user of Google+. The developers just made recent changes to
> > this, which resulted in my being unable to use the site. I have some
> > visual issues, requiring larger than normal fonts. My desktop is
> > usually started with changing the DPI to 145. That grows the fonts
> > nicely. Then, in my web browser, I set the minimum fonts to 20. That
> > makes a lot of websites readable. It also makes a lot of web pages
> > written badly unreadable.
> >
> > When I contacted Google developers about the issues with the google+
> > site, they offered the only solution they have at this time. Switch to
> > Chrome Browser, which appears to zoom text better than firefox.
> >
> > This seems more like Microsoft than open source to me, and I was hoping
> > someone might have a better answer for reading web pages that fail to
> > appear readable.



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Charlie Kravetz 
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