There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out

[sovay]

So I got home to discover the latest code push from Dreamwidth has effectively broken the site for me. I left a comment to that effect. It does not look as though my comment will make a difference.

I understand accessibility is complicated. This journal and DW in general was one of the few things in my life right now that did not cause me active pain. It was in fact rather sustaining. That has just sharply ceased to be the case. I have no idea what to do. I left LJ for DW. I had planned to stay here until they turned out the lights because I trusted them not to hurt me. Now my eyes hurt. I am a text-oriented person who cannot comfortably interact with the text-based form of social media which is very nearly the whole of my life online. There's nowhere to go from here. (I can't even think about the effects on my Patreon.) I am tired of being a person whose needs are disposable. I am very, very, very not happy.

[edit 2020-07-26 1:21:00] I have temporarily reverted to the old style because the alternative appears to be verging on a migraine. And perhaps in a year the horse will learn to sing.

Comments

[julian]

Btw, I don't think this is your specific issue, but per Denise's new post: "If your font size is unspeakably large, please check both your browser default font size and check the current magnification level you've set for Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth journals. Most browsers will remember your last-used magnification setting on a per-website basis, so if you changed your magnification on DW in the past because the site was setting a smaller-than-browser-default font size, it is probably now too large now that we are using the browser default font size. This has been the root cause for lot of the people reporting extremely large font sizes, so take a moment to check."

There's also some other pertinent bugs being worked on.

[sovay]

so if you changed your magnification on DW in the past because the site was setting a smaller-than-browser-default font size, it is probably now too large now that we are using the browser default font size. This has been the root cause for lot of the people reporting extremely large font sizes

I appreciate the encouragement to double-check, but that is unfortunately not the source of my problem: my browser default font size is whatever came with this version of Firefox ("Times 16," according to Preferences/Content) and I never altered the magnification levels on Dreamwidth (I don't think I even knew until now that I could). As far as I can tell, it blew up entirely of its own accord.

There's also some other pertinent bugs being worked on.

Thanks. I hope one of them helps me.

[julian]

Yeah, sorry, I was just doing a too-large cut and paste.

(Hope so too.)

[sovay]

Yeah, sorry, I was just doing a too-large cut and paste.

What? There's no need to apologize! It just wasn't the solution to the problem.

[edit] I had not seen the new post. I have been mostly off DW today except for replying to comments. I have done very little in general.