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TL;DR
- Code inside the latest model of the Reddit app for Android suggests rising the app’s font measurement is on the way in which.
- Growing font measurement is an important accessibility function third-party apps provided earlier than Reddit pushed them to close down.
- A Reddit spokesperson confirmed the corporate can have extra to say on this within the coming months.
Replace, November 29, 2023 (07:56 PM ET): A Reddit spokesperson responded to our request for a remark. Right here is the assertion:
We’re at all times exploring methods to supply worth for customers and communities on Reddit and can have extra to share on this within the coming months.
Whereas this isn’t a direct affirmation {that a} font-size management function is coming, it does closely counsel that we will anticipate to see it quickly.
Unique article, November 29, 2023 (05:48 PM ET): With Reddit’s API adjustments this yr successfully pushing most third-party apps to close down, the official app is now one of many few choices to entry the service. Nevertheless, a function these third-party apps provided is lacking from the official app: the power to extend the font measurement. Fortunately, new strings showing within the newest model of the Reddit Android app (v.2023.47.0.1303604) counsel the power to customise in-app fonts is on the way in which.
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Reddit has allowed some extent of font customization within the iOS model of its app. Nevertheless, the Android model has no font controls in any respect. To vary the app’s font, you’ll want to change your system’s font by going to Settings > Show > Show measurement and textual content. Sadly, this isn’t as useful as you’d assume. As a result of the font used for the Reddit app is so small, you’ll want to make your system font comically massive to compensate. This inevitably ends in individuals having problem studying Reddit, particularly these with visible impairments.
The brand new strings we see immediately give a fairly clear concept of what could possibly be within the works:
<string title="font_scale_override_slider_content_description">Giant textual content sizes</string>
<string title="font_scale_override_switch_description">Regulate the textual content measurement within the Reddit app with out affecting the remainder of your machine</string>
<string title="font_scale_override_switch_label">Override machine settings</string>
<string title="font_size_setting_title">Enhance textual content measurement</string>
<string title="font_size_settings_screen_title">Enhance textual content measurement</string>
The second string there even provides a full clarification of what to anticipate, which is adjusting the textual content measurement of the Reddit app independently of your cellphone’s system settings. The “override machine settings” part is extra mysterious, although. It’s attainable this can be an optionally available toggle that you should use if altering the Reddit app’s font doesn’t work as a result of one thing in your system settings is messing with it. Time will inform on that one.
We contacted Reddit for a press release on this however didn’t instantly hear again. We’ll replace this text if and once we get a response. Notably, one in all Reddit’s guarantees when it modified its API entry guidelines was to enhance the official app’s accessibility. That promise would make it doubtless we’ll see font measurement management sooner or later, even when it differs from the strings we see on this newest app model. Nonetheless, one can hope this can launch sooner fairly than later.
