Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Reading/Customization of text

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Customization of text

Problem: Text may be too small, not the right color, wrong font, or displeasing.
Proposed solution: Allow for users to set default font sizes, text colors (including normal, link, visited, and redlink colors). Text width may also be more granular instead of all or regular.
Who would benefit: Everyone because this brings greater accessibility.
More comments: I'd like for the settings to be available on each page, but also provide an opt out so the menu only is in the settings area.
Phabricator tickets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91201
Proposer: JackFromWisconsin (talk) 00:33, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@JackFromWisconsin: I like the idea! For clarification, are you referring to a user preference to set these options, as opposed to custom CSS? ~TheresNoTime-WMF (talk) 16:43, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes more like a user preference. I forgot that custom CSS was available, but that isn't accessible to those logged out, or to those who only read. Lots of websites have accesibility menus where you can change how the site looks. Wikimedia should be no different. --JackFromWisconsin (talk) 16:23, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This would be great via preferences. I spent a lot of time asking for help with CSS to change link colors for Vector2022, and it's still not quite consistent. It is somewhat difficult to find nice colours, so it may be nice to include some standard options (darker link colours, or a colourblind-friendly option (visited/unvisited links are undistinguisible for colourblind people in V22). Femke (talk) 19:20, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is a must considering the intense discussions on V22 --Afernand74 (talk) 12:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is one of the way to customize the reader and editor's experience. Thingofme (talk) 13:00, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This would be much easier to implement, if we first had CSS variables (which would also make dark mode a lot simpler). —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:11, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Would something like https://patchdemo.wmflabs.org/wikis/10b47eaaa5/wiki/Space?useskin=vector-2022 fulfil this wish? Jdlrobson (talk) 17:47, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Jdlrobson, yes that's pretty close to what I'm looking for! My biggest gripe is that there isn't a light / dark selector, but rather a "light mode when the sun shines" (i'm viewing at night). JackFromWisconsin (talk) 06:34, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I should have mentioned that is a prototype and that option text is hugely misleading. It works as you describe.

Main thing I was curious about was the font size options. Jdlrobson (talk) 17:53, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Tokenzero (talk) 19:26, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SeGiba (talk) 21:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Significa liberdade (talk) 22:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support PureTuber (talk) 22:30, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support See also this English Wikipedia discussion. EpicPupper (talk) 05:28, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Afernand74 (talk) 07:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szymonel (talk) 08:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oltrepier (talk) 10:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doktor Züm (talk) 10:18, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alanfdow (talk) 11:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Doesn't have to be super complicated or time consuming to bring benefits OwenBlacker (Talk) 15:10, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nerd271 (talk) 15:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CROIX (talk) 15:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support LauraFarina (talk) 19:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VastV0idInSpace0 (talk) 20:19, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- JackFromWisconsin (talk) 23:09, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 00:42, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wiki-uk (talk) 10:37, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Acky69 (talk) 13:51, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zwd626 (talk) 03:43, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mikxth (talk) 12:08, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support //Lollipoplollipoplollipop::talk 13:35, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thooompson (talk) 13:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 07:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support SamuelInzunza (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mr Reading Turtle (talk) 00:52, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fuchs B (talk) 20:09, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 21:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Eall Ân Ûle (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Luckyfuy (talk) 07:45, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wire723 (talk) 11:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alvinero (talk) 11:48, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 15:08, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Text should be customized by users. Thingofme (talk) 15:30, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:07, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support AllArtAfterAll (talk) 16:08, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Albinfo (talk) 21:37, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support KatastrophenKommando (talk) 23:02, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cryorett (talk) 13:04, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 14:10, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support schurdl (talk) 14:58, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VanNate (talk) 00:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support I would still think that people would adjust their own browsers for text customization, but it would be good to have it integrated. Hans5958 (talk) 02:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:37, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jeeputer (talk) 06:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 05:34, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rose04zr (talk) 19:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Althair (talk) 04:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]