1. Overview

Many people read their phone with larger text. Some need a little more size. Others need text three times the default size. iOS gives them one setting, Larger Text. Apps follow it through a system called Dynamic Type.

Following the setting has two halves. First, the text itself must grow. Second, the layout must make room for it, without cutting words off or hiding controls. Apps often do the first half and forget the second. At the largest sizes, rows overflow, buttons slide off the screen and labels end in an ellipsis.

This lesson also covers two display settings that change controls: Bold Text and Button Shapes. It ends with target size. Target size decides whether a person with a tremor can hit a control at all.

Standards covered: WCAG 2.2 Success Criteria 1.3.4 Orientation, 1.4.4 Resize Text, 1.4.10 Reflow and 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) · EN 301 549 V4.1.1 clauses 11.1.3.4, 11.1.4.4, 11.1.4.10, 11.2.5.8 and 11.7 · Apple's Larger Text evaluation criteria for Accessibility Nutrition Labels.

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