https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946
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Bug ID: 48946
Summary: Add font size adjustment feature to the mobile front
end
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Smartphone
OS: other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MobileFrontend
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
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Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
I use an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.4 (latest version at the time of this writing).
I use the built-in Safari browser to read Wikipedia articles via the mobile
version of the site (http://en.m.wikipedia.org in my case).
The mobile version of Wikipedia offers no option for changing the font size. I
find the fonts much too small to read comfortably for more than a short period
of time.
I recommend adding a font size adjustment feature to the mobile front end,
perhaps via the menu that appears in the upper-left of each page (Home, Random,
Nearby, etc.) The mobile site needs something like the A+ / A- feature to
adjust the font size up or down, respectively, as seen on many Web sites.
While pages on the mobile site can be zoomed to some extent, an option to
simply enlarge the font size throughout would provide a better experience.
One option might be to provide a larger default font size when rotating from
portrait to landscape mode. For example, the mobile version of The Verge site
supports this. Nevertheless, it's still not a substitute for a true font size
adjustment feature.
An alternative would be to redesign the pages to support the Reader function in
Safari: Safari Reader mode offers font size adjustment. Unfortunately, no
Wikipedia Mobile pages work in Reader.
A somewhat related bug report is # 24739
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24739)
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