https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946
--- Comment #3 from Gregory Swain <thex...@thexlab.com> --- I think before one considers this to be a "low priority enhancement" one should look at some of the impacts of small fonts on vision: • According to the latest data I can find from the National Eye Institute (NEI), a division of the US National Institute of Health (NIH), over 100 million people in the US — about a third of the population — need corrective lenses (NEI, "Vision Research National Plan 1999-2003", page 7, PDF: http://www.nei.nih.gov/resources/strategicplans/nei_vision_report.pdf) • About 11 million people who need corrective lenses do not have them. (http://www.nei.nih.gov/news/pressreleases/050906.asp) • Increasing cases of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_syndrome) are being related to smartphone use and possibly font size. If the font is too small, you hold the device in a manner that increases the likelihood of developing CVS. While I've not found a study directly correlating font size and CVS, the following articles discuss issues of CVS and smartphones, with the first citing font size: - http://www.deccanherald.com/content/88495/wrong-font-can-cause-computer.html - http://www.ocregister.com/articles/vision-272842-computer-eye.html - http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/health/eye-doctors-have-warning-for-smartphone-computer-users-about-computer-vision-syndrome - The NEI's Dr. Rachel Bishop discusses CVS on this Voice of America interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYCmvSHyjo The CVS problem, in particular, is one that could be helped by enabling font size adjustment in the Wikipedia Mobile site. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
