Design System Accessibility: Typography & Size

If you can’t see it, you can’t use it.

Presbyopia¹ is a physiological condition which makes it harder to focus on close objects. This is a side-effect of your eyes ageing and currently effects about a quarter of the worlds population¹.

According to some sources everyones eyesight worsens after the age of 4⁰². This is why it is important for us to design experiences that are accessible for people with farsightedness³. They are a huge part of nearly everybody’s audience.

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Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re

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Lukas Oppermann

Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re