Layout/Size of Text and Controls

kmpeterson

I’ve seen several suggestions here relating to difficulties with the sizes of fonts and other elements.

I have a request that is related, and perhaps worth thinking about as a different approach.

I too am dealing with changes in my vision as I age, but I still crank up monitors to max resolution and just use reading glasses. But I think that there is an underlying assumption that doesn’t get questioned, which is that people are either on a device using an app, or using a web browser - and a browser means a desktop machine or laptop with a significant pixel count and density.

Every time I switch from the iOS app to a mobile browser on my iPad, honestly, I like the browser experience more than the app. There is just “more” information available. It’s not always what I always want, especially on a phone, but on a tablet it’s pretty close.

But the other browser I have used occasionally is… the one in my car. Of all the games and sound effects and “entertainment” available, the browser will give me weather radar (via Windy). This is actually a safety feature. I can’t think of any other reason to use the browser in the car.

And I think there will be more and more of them.

And here is the problem: it probably doesn’t report itself as a mobile device, but even if it did, it gets the visual elements sized as if it were on a desktop. And that makes it a lot more difficult (and hence, less safe) to use. I don’t need to read the meteogram, but the base navigational icons don’t work.

So my request - suggestion is this: from a previous thread, I know that you have little flexibility to modify this without some work. However, there are browsers everywhere, or thin apps that are really built on browser tech. The most significant way to increase the range of devices on which Windy works well is to address the ability to simplify and re-scale the interface. This also increases accessibility, which will also continue to be important.

Thanks for listening, and I hope some day I’ll have a bookmark to bring up Windy radar and winds in a usable configuration as I see a storm ahead of me on the road.