Make a health screen comfortable to read
Make health screens comfortable to read, using four dials rather than shoving one to the end.
The phone is hard to read, so you go hunting for the one slider that makes everything bigger.
There are four dials doing four jobs, and text size — the one everybody finds first — is not always the one you needed.
Key points
- Use four dials rather than one, at moderate settings each
- Turn on bold text and button shapes, which cost no space at all
- Enlarge one small thing with the magnifier instead of changing the whole phone
- Turn the phone sideways, or read anything long on a bigger screen
What to remember
- Bold text and button shapes do more for most people than another two notches of size.
- Moderate settings on several dials beat one dial at its limit, every time.
Try this
Turn on bold text, then open your doctor’s office app and look at it. If that is enough, you have finished. If not, add two notches of text size and look again.
Practice: Make a health screen comfortable to read. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.