Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Jim]

Thanks for all the helpful replies--

Jim
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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Philip Chee]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:44:27 -0400, Bill Spikowski wrote:

> For that purpose I've found "No Squint" to be indispensable:
> 
> https://www.vebzom.org/projects/overview/xsidebar/
ITYM: https://www.mozdev.org/projects/overview/xsidebar/

However, I prefer that you link to my website in the following manner:



Thanks.

Phil
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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[JeffM]

Richard Owlett wrote:
>Years ago there was an active Mozilla newsgroup
>devoted to accessibility issues. Don't know if it still exists.

Still does.  Google even archives it.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.accessibility

If you discount Google's brokenness of late,
it's even searchable:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.accessibility/search?group=mozilla.support.accessibility&q=font+OR+fonts+OR+magnifiers+OR+magnifier+-Periodic&qt_g=Search+this+group
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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Richard Owlett]

Jim wrote:

Bill Spikowski wrote:

Jim wrote:

Is there a way to permanently increase the text size for one profile?
125% is good.

My wife, who is Korean, is finally getting interested in using the
computer, and she can't see too well close up, because of her age.


Do you want larger text on the screen, say for reading e-mails? Or do
you want text to be larger when you a print a document?

Or are you looking for larger text when browsing the web?

(In Seamonkey there are complex interactions between each of these; the
solution for one can actually make the others worse.)


Mostly larger text when browsing the web.


Simple solution which I use (WinXP SM 1.1.17):

1. Edit -> Preferences
2. Appearance -> Fonts
3. At "Minimum font size" enter an appropriate number.
   For my combination of eyes, hardware, and system settings,
   I find values from 16 to 20 work well.

!!! *CAUTION* !!!
This can have some strange effects on sloppily designed sites.
In their design they place some text &/or images at an "absolute 
position". The rust can be resized text overrunning other "objects".


If your problem is more accurately described as "anything on 
computer screen", look at

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22screen+magnifier%22+windows

I've tried
Magnifixer - http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/screenmagnifier.html
magnify.exe - MS utility (Believe it's part of WinXP)
on other people's systems (severe visual impairments) with 
satisfactory results.


Years ago there was an active Mozilla newsgroup devoted to 
accessibility issues. Don't know if it still exists.


Feel free to contact me with questions - my reply to is valid - 
though strongly filtered ;)



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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Martin Freitag]

Jim schrieb:

Bill Spikowski wrote:

Jim wrote:

Is there a way to permanently increase the text size for one profile?
125% is good.

My wife, who is Korean, is finally getting interested in using the
computer, and she can't see too well close up, because of her age.



Do you want larger text on the screen, say for reading e-mails? Or do
you want text to be larger when you a print a document?

Or are you looking for larger text when browsing the web?

(In Seamonkey there are complex interactions between each of these; the
solution for one can actually make the others worse.)


Mostly larger text when browsing the web.


Edit => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts...
There is an option to set a minimum font-size (which is "none" by 
default), just set something like 13 or 14 and things should be fine for 
most sites.

regards

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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Bill Spikowski]

Jim wrote:

Bill Spikowski wrote:

Jim wrote:

Is there a way to permanently increase the text size for one profile?
125% is good.

My wife, who is Korean, is finally getting interested in using the
computer, and she can't see too well close up, because of her age.


Do you want larger text on the screen, say for reading e-mails? Or do
you want text to be larger when you a print a document?

Or are you looking for larger text when browsing the web?

(In Seamonkey there are complex interactions between each of these; the
solution for one can actually make the others worse.)


Mostly larger text when browsing the web.



For that purpose I've found "No Squint" to be indispensable:

https://www.vebzom.org/projects/overview/xsidebar/
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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Jim]

Bill Spikowski wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Is there a way to permanently increase the text size for one profile?
>> 125% is good.
>>
>> My wife, who is Korean, is finally getting interested in using the
>> computer, and she can't see too well close up, because of her age.
> 
> 
> Do you want larger text on the screen, say for reading e-mails? Or do
> you want text to be larger when you a print a document?
> 
> Or are you looking for larger text when browsing the web?
> 
> (In Seamonkey there are complex interactions between each of these; the
> solution for one can actually make the others worse.)

Mostly larger text when browsing the web.
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Re: way to permanently increase text size?

[Bill Spikowski]

Jim wrote:

Is there a way to permanently increase the text size for one profile?
125% is good.

My wife, who is Korean, is finally getting interested in using the
computer, and she can't see too well close up, because of her age.



Do you want larger text on the screen, say for reading e-mails? Or do you want 
text to be larger when you a print a document?

Or are you looking for larger text when browsing the web?

(In Seamonkey there are complex interactions between each of these; the 
solution for one can actually make the others worse.)
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