Well, a pretty straight-forward question: how can I change the font sizes of web-pages? I’ve finally managed to convince my mother to change her LCD to its native resolution and use bigger font-sizes in windows, but now I’m having trouble with web-pages. Yes, I know the Control-Scroll Wheel trick, but the problem is that it doesn’t work in frames or in “style tables” or whatever they are called. It will change one part of the table, but leave others unaffected with their tiny fonts. So, how do I go about resolving this issue and increasing the font-sizes of the entire web-page?
Right, that changes the same paramater as the Ctrl-Scroll thing I described, the problem is still there with the web-pages with frames. Thanks, though.
As web pages have gotten fancier, the designers have taken away your right to control the size of the text. it’s contrary to all the technical standards, but the artsy folks that create advertising & cool sites want it to look the way they want it to look, and your needs don’t figure in.
If you’ve tried the text size feature, that’s about all you can do with the basic IE browser. You can use the screen magnifier feature to expand any part of anything on the screen, not just the browser. It’s on the programs menu under Accessories, Accesibility. It’s pretty crude.
A little Googling turned up this http://www.enablemart.com/productdetail.aspx?store=10&pid=1227&dept=12 . I know nothing about it other than what’s on that page, but it seems like the program does what you’re looking for, and for $30 you can’t go too far wrong. Actually, a program like that might also make a good ad filter by removing all the grahical clutter from pages.
The ultimate solution is to never revisit a site built like that. Such pages are designed by “fashion nerds” who build pages for themselves rather than visitors.
There is possibly no single solution against all possible nonsense these folks can dream up.
You might try a different brouser like Opera. In IE, there’s tools, internet options, accessibility that could help in some situations.
To override IE’s inability to resize some fonts (i.e. those specified in pixels):
In the menu bar at the top, select Tools -> Internet Options.
A new window will appear, called “Internet Options.” At the bottom of this window, you should see a button called “Accessibility”. Click it, and another new window will appear.
In this window, find the checkbox that says “Ignore font sizes specified on web pages.” and click it. Click OK to close this window, and OK again to close Internet Options, and you should be be back at your browser window.
Now you should be able to use the View -> Text Size menu, or your mouse wheel, to make fonts bigger and smaller regardless of how they were styled.
