LLarge fonts for partially sighted users
 

I am very impressed with the effort open source contributors such as Fedora and SuSE etc and many, many more take to make their open source operating systems snd software accesible to disabled people. I believe that open source, above Microsoft and other closed source "developers" (if you can call them that) , should be accessible to all no matter what their disabillity, race, sexuallity, beliefs etc.

I , myself am partially sighted. I find it hard to judge distance or see close up text. Thanks to Firefox though, all I have to do is hold my Ctrl key and press + as many times as it takes for me to see the text as it enlarges each time. It always amazes me that the open source community think about those that need special help. It seems unusual for the computing community, that help is free. The Fluxbox Window manager isn't especially accesible at first but with a little help from those in the know, the fluxbox window manager becomes accessible to everyone and I am extremely thankful for that and the KDE/Gnome are very useful asside from the glitches I got hehe probably my own foult tho :P

Anyway, peace to all and long like open source!!!!!

glad to hear it! welcome to LQ btw.

titanium_geek

Great to have you :) Welcome to LQ!

I'll move this thread over into the Member Success Stories, it seems like a better feel over there.

Cool

In Firefox, go to your preferences and select "General", and then click on "Fonts and Colors". There is an option for "Minimum Font Size". Use it! I find it an indispensable option for my HTPC and my high resolution workstations.

A lot of websites get messed up when the font size is set too big, but that's really the fault of the web site designer and not the web browser.

This won't have any effect on Firefox's menu font, though. In order to change that in GNOME, you just use GNOME's font setting configuration. In order to change it in any other WM/DE (like KDE), then you make a file called .gtkrc-2.0 and put this in it:

gtk-font-name="Fudd 18"

In KDE, you can generally adjust font sizes with the font settings pretty large and everything will still work nicely. There is one really annoying limitation, though--Konqueror's file name font is limited to at most 18 point. What if that's not big enough?

Then in that case, you have to get your hands dirty editing your XF86Config or Xorg.conf. I won't go into all the dirty details, but basically you want to set your DisplaySize to your screen resolution scaled down by 4. For instance, if your resolution is 1280x960 you want to set the display size to 320 240. This will tell Konqueror and many other applications that your screen resolution is 100dpi, and it will upscale all font sizes.