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Not enough white space between lines!
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Marc Clifton wrote: I've been noticing more and more that websites are setting their font size to something a blind man could read.
Without providing alt-text's for them images, causing blind man not to be able to place an order.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/dominos-supreme-court.html
"Quote: The case was originally brought by a blind man named Guillermo Robles, who sued the pizza chain after he was unable to order food on Domino’s website and mobile app despite using screen-reading software.
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So I'm wondering why he didn't call the order in. I don't want to seem unsympathetic to the disabled but this requirement seems a bit much. 
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MKJCP wrote: So I'm wondering why he didn't call the order in.
Maybe he has a thick Scottisch accent?
Doesn't change the fact that most websites provide this simple to add "feature" that has been around since the img-tag. Why can't Dominoes?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ah, I didn't know it was a simple and common fix. I don't do any web stuff (except for my very simple and non-compliant personal site). I assumed it was a substantial task as it seems all I hear from folks at work and on CP is how difficult everything webbish seems to be. Thanks for the enlightenment.
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MKJCP wrote: Ah, I didn't know it was a simple and common fix.
There just needs to be an alt-text for each image; the screenreader software will then "read" those tags out loud. Most websites do that already.
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I had to install a plugin to automatically zoom to 130% or I can't read anything.
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I haven't particularly noticed that, but I do know there's a bit of a opposite trend in games.
When Final Fantasy XV came out I had to wear my glasses (which I never wear anymore) and I still wasn't able to read everything on my TV.
I went looking for a patch and saw blogs and forums about the small font and apparently I already had a patch which made it bigger!
In the end I put my couch something like a meter in front of the TV.
I had the same problem with God of War.
I read that more and more games use these ridiculously small fonts and more gamers have trouble reading them.
It really takes out some of the fun because you're always squinting your eyes.
A regular font on a computer, which is probably like half a meter away at most, is well readable for you and me.
I never had trouble with CP, for example.
But I can imagine that it's just a little too small for some people.
Making it just a tad bigger might help those people and personally I don't really mind either.
Although it can get annoying to read on phones where the screen can't fit that many characters.
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Because actual responsive designs are hard. Much easier to just design for a small phone, and apply a fixed scaling factor on anything larger. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Usually, as we age, things get more difficult to read.
I interpret this as Marc having discovered the fountain of youth, not that sites are any different.
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And the older and blinder I get, the more I appreciate those bigger fonts. It's a nice change from fonts so small only Millennials can read it. Like Visual Studio and Cubase.
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I totally blame high resolution phones and tablets for this.
When you have a page that's perfectly reasonable on, say, a 24" 1080p monitor, it's rather unreadable on a 6" phone at the same resolution. Since so many lemmings nowadays are glued to their phones, what's now appropriate for a phone turns into a huge waste of space on a monitor.
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I just had a near-sex experience - my whole wife flashed before my eyes.
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You coitus unprepared with that one! That was one hell-vulva pun!
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Outstanding retort!
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Better than hall sex.
Every time you pass in the hall you mutter "elephant you"
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Made me think of this:
"My wife used to be afraid of the dark, but then she saw me naked. Now she is afraid of the light." -Rodney Dangerfield
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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ah Rodney Dangerfield: so often proved that old nugget:
"If you can't laugh at yourself you're missing the best joke(s)."
(and really the way he told those sorts of jokes it wasn't hard to put yourself in his place.)
One of the few US comedians I actually found to be truly funny.
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I have my own quote (not having heard that particular RD quote, but it's similar:
I you can't laugh at yourself then everyone else will do it for you. - Me
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lopatir wrote: One of the few US comedians I actually found to be truly funny.
As it turns out, much comedy doesn't translate well between cultures.
Burns & Allen - incredibly funny: Vaudeville, Radio, and then TV - and it kept working. It does require some mastery of the English language that I don't even think millennials have or will ever have.
I realeize it would be a waste of ink to go through a list.
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you've just experienced an outer body event
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A farmer drove to his neighbors farm house and knocked on the door.
A boy about 9 opened the door.
"Is your dad or mom home asked the farmer".
"No they went to town".
"How about your brother Howard is he here?"
"No he went to town with mom and dad".
The farmer stood there shifting from one foot to the other mumbling to himself,
when the young boy says "I know where all the tools are if you want to borrwo one or leave dad a message".
"Well" said the farmer uncomfortably, "No I really need to talk to your dad about your brother Howard getting my Suzy pregnant".
The boy thought for a memento, then says, "You'll have to talk to my dad about that. I know he charges $500 for the bulls and $150 for the pigs, but I have no idea what he charges for Howard".
I'll get my coat and show myself out.
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Could have been worse:
A farmer drove to his neighbors farm house and knocked on the door.
A boy about 9 opened the door.
"Is your dad or mom home asked the farmer".
"No they were run over by the tractor".
"How about your brother Howard is he here?"
"No, no he also was run over by the tractor.".
"And now what are you doing here when you are now all alone?"
"Take the tractor for a spin again?"
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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