Font size too small
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:09 pm
Imagine the following situation: you're an operator working for a large company. You're given a desktop that has a huge resolution (1600x1200+). You have many applications beside each other, thus eliminating the need for taskbars/alt+tab and the like. One of your applications is a web-browser running the software that's at the centre of your productivity. And the font on that browser is way too small, and after an 8 hour shift, you feel terrible eye strain. Adjusting font in IE is NOT an option (it's disabled by the evil tech people and techs tell you that enabling it is not an option).
So now you're someone in tech, dealing with this problem. What are the possible solutions? So far we have come up with lower the resolution (it'll mess up the other applications), put in a dual-monitor setup with different resolutions (quite costly) and modify the web-based app (sounds good, but there are people in other departments using that app on humane resolutions, so it'd mess them up). There are also more creative things like special mouse drivers that magnify text as you mouseover it, unfortunately if the problem is eye strain, this might make it even worse (rule: the less moving "stuff", the less eye strain). Any other solutions that we may have missed? Anything creative? Hardware or software solutions are fine at this point.
Thanks.
So now you're someone in tech, dealing with this problem. What are the possible solutions? So far we have come up with lower the resolution (it'll mess up the other applications), put in a dual-monitor setup with different resolutions (quite costly) and modify the web-based app (sounds good, but there are people in other departments using that app on humane resolutions, so it'd mess them up). There are also more creative things like special mouse drivers that magnify text as you mouseover it, unfortunately if the problem is eye strain, this might make it even worse (rule: the less moving "stuff", the less eye strain). Any other solutions that we may have missed? Anything creative? Hardware or software solutions are fine at this point.
Thanks.