Text resize on wide screen layout also causes reflow to single column, making the layout too wide

Created on 11 August 2020, almost 4 years ago
Updated 20 January 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Users might have customized their font sizes in their browser to larger default sizes. When this is done, the form layout, even on a wide-screen, is defaulting to the single column layout. This causes the text paragraphs and the field widths to be untenably wide.

For users with low vision, or even subtle near-field vision decline, increasing default font sizes is often something they. will do to make browsing easier. Since it is a system-level preference, they may not even recall that they have made this settings change at some point.

Extremely wide paragraphs and text fields are difficult to read and use.

I would consider this issue a "should" fix instead of a "must" fix because the experience is still technically usable, but it becomes more difficult.

Steps to reproduce

In your browser settings, adjust your default font size to one of the larger options. E.g., in Chrome:

  1. Chrome -> Preferences
  2. Scroll down to "Appearance"
  3. Find "Font size" and change it to "Very Large"
  4. Chrome should update dynamically

Proposed resolution

Maintain the two column layout when the width is still over 900, or set a max width on the content area so that it won't get too wide.

🐛 Bug report
Status

Active

Version

10.1

Component
Claro 

Last updated about 10 hours ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States rainbreaw

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