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Last active January 4, 2023 05:04
Accessibility in browsers: zoom level vs. font size

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Question

There's two ways to increase the default font size in browsers:

  1. set a default zoom level > 100% ("page zooming")
  2. set a default font size > 16px ("text scaling")

Option 1 relies on the browser's proportional scaling. This feature was