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larger print?
As we age, it is normal to have a harder time reading small print. Most people want to deny their changing reality, or for financial reasons put off getting glasses. And then there a few eye conditions such as macular degeneration and diabetes that cause vision problems and then these people get closed out of social activities, especially those involving vision.
I hate to be a bearer of bad news, but it is common for older people to loose both their vision and hearing, and they can become very lonely as people avoid them, or they avoid social situations because they have these problems. These forums could provide something for all these people that other forums do not. A more easy to read social opportunity. This is as needed as affordable medical care, but generally over looked by the masses who do not have experience with the problems and just don't realize what it is like to need larger and darker print.
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I have noticed that some people are writing almost all their posts in large print. This is supposed to be used like the bold, italic or underline feature, i.e. not on everything but for emphasis. I am working on a way to make it so that people cannot increase a whole post into large print. I may just eliminate the font-size option all-together.
Update: I have disabled font-size changes.
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By the way, sometimes an entire post needs EMPHASIS.
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If your not using firefox, I don't like that at all.
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One or two posters using the largest text on all their posts really wouldn't help because everyone else's posts would still be at the site's default. Then when they use their own personal computer and browser settings to adjust how big the default is for them, the posters using larger print would have super large print that is probably so large it is hard to read.
The larger print feature is not about the size the text actually appears to others, but how big the text is in relation to other text. This is just to add emphasis, but this can be done with bold or italic print.
I also greatly recommend Firefox. It also has a built in automatic spell checker, which is especially useful. And if your computer crashes, it sometimes auto saves half-written posts that you were making in text boxes.Gearge wrote:If your not using firefox, I don't like that at all.
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The first step to enforcing a rule or law, needs to be, being sure the rule or law is understood. Obama, is excellent at explaining things. Bush was not. A democracy doesn't have liberty, when decisions are arbitrary and there isn't even a chance to discuss how things "should" be or a need for change, and rights and freedoms are just taken away. A democracy works with liberty works, when the people are informed and understand the importance of following the rules and laws, upon which the majority agree.
I keep writing about this stuff, because I think we are no longer conscious of the principles and how they work. In other forums, I am told the forum is not a democracy, and autocratic decisions are defended. I hope that doesn't happen here, because there is no point in me participating if it is not to increase awareness of the principles of democracy and how they work, and our individual responsibility in protecting our liberty and justice.
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Since bold and italic can be used for emphasis, I do not think we need the large print feature. At best, it's redundant.
I am thinking about slightly increasing the size of text in posts in relation to the rest of the site. Perhaps I can try it out and then I can have you all tell me whether you prefer it as it is now or with a slight increase. What do you think? I think it will be better with a slight increase, but it is hard to say because of course the website appears differently on different computers and we all have our own preferences.
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I also wonder what would have happened if the king of England had been as nice as you are. Perhaps the rebels in the New World colonies would not have rebelled if the king had been so considerate? Wouldn't it be fun to redo history like a computer game?
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