Hi Nathan, the reason I am not using the forum much is accessibility. I wondered if you had any tips and tricks. It doesn’t seem to match my large print settings in my phone like other sites and forums do. Meaning engagement is less.
I can’t seem to find any way I can change these settings myself. Any thoughts?
Sally
Hi Sally, thank you - you’ve highlighted a large blindspot for me personally. This is literally the first time I’ve thought about accessibility with regards to Discourse.
You can fortunately manually change the text size for yourself (and I’ve just bumped yours up a size for you so you can read this), but it is in a somewhat buried preference setting:
https://ehealthforum.nz/my/preferences/interface
The Discourse team seem to take it seriously; there are several threads discussing it with their founders. However, none touch on text size - and it clearly isn’t automated. I’ve suggested it as a feature request:
Really good point @Srgurr on line accessibility another consideration of use.
Thanks Kate 
I am actually doing quite a bit of work around accessibility and apps from an informatics and social science perspective in the background. I have a feeling my research might be heading in that direction too as there is so many nuances and a need.
Hey Sally,
You mentioned on the recent Zoom call that even the largest font size using the settings in https://ehealthforum.nz/my/preferences/interface is too small for you.
I’ve just worked out how to manipulate the font size on the Forum from the back end, and have made the size of the largest font 22px. Is that better?
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22 point is great. Also, Nathan when I reply by email they aren’t being included in the forum???
They used to. I have replied in a group to some others and neither have been posted?
Th
Sally, they are looking at this for Discourse at the moment. Would you be interested in explaining to them the problem that you observed in more detail on their forum?
Alternatively I can post your thoughts for you on there to save you having to join another forum!
Sure
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