Extension that makes kanji readings in lessons/reviews bigger?

[Jenski]

I have extremely poor eyesight so I’m constantly mixing up similar characters like さき めぬ and れね, and I also really struggle to tell if something has a dakuten or a tendakuten because the text is so small. Is there an extension that makes the readings larger and easier to read?

[prouleau]

Are you on Windows? How about zooming with CTRL-+

[ekg]

I wanna tag the @Mods on this one. As this is not the first time of people with seeing issues have asked for help to just view everything larger.

Some questions that I don’t know the answers for:

• Is WK fully sight impaired compatible? If you’re not offering this, how are you communicating the limits of this service?
• If you are trying, are you using all impared-help-tech that exists to make WK fully available? (and consistently!) Again. Are you clearly communicating who can and who simply cannot access WK fully to obtain the wished result of learning kanji.

I bet there were other smart questions, but I’ll just stop with these first contenders for me.

[ekg]

To be fair, with WK, it doesn’t just enlarge all the way, it caps at some point? I think. Or I’m mixing this up with some other thing.

Edit, yeah, I lie. I clearly zooms with the use of CTRL + mousewheel up and down.

[Jenski]

I am, I can do that but it makes everything around the text bigger as well which makes it a bit more difficult to navigate. Everything is no longer on one neat screen and I have to scroll more. Which isn’t the end of the world, but it would be simpler if there was a way for me to just make the specific text I want bigger.

[ekg]

I think they really should make more availability options actually, rather than working on minor content corrections @Mods

[Rrwrex]

There is a user script for this, but as written it only affects reviews and (I think) lessons:

[Userscript] Increase kana font size

This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. If you find the hiragana in WaniKani lessons too small to read comfortably, this script may help. By default, it increases the font size of hiragana characters by 80% in the Reading section where new vocabulary is first introduced, and by 50% in the mnemonic and extra study sections. Installation: get it here

@mods: I agree that the devs should consider fixing this in the primary app. I’m not an expert, but it appears the single easiest thing the devs could do is to stop using px for font sizes in their css and use relative units instead.

As it is, setting the default font size in one’s browser preferences has no effect on, for example, the font used in the “readings” section because of the following CSS rule:

.subject-readings {
    ...
    font-size: 16px;
    ...
}

This renders on my screen as follows, regardless of my browser preferences.

But if they changed it to

.subject-readings {
    ...
    font-size: 1rem;
    ...
}

Then it would look identical for anyone that’s not adjusted their default font size in their browser preferences, but anyone that does change their preferences for whatever reason could make it larger (or smaller) as desired.

Here’s how it looks with just that change, but with my Chrome browser preferences configured for a font size of “Very Large”:

Note that other sections (like the Mnemonic paragraph) still ignore the user preference since they still use px units.

@damyst : Please consider adding a rule for .subject-readings as well.

@artemigos : Please consider adding these rules to the breeze-dark theme as well.

[evandcs]

I also have difficulties seing the difference if it is ‘b’ or ‘p’ in cases like ば or ぱ and specially if they are furigana, I have to zoom in like 200%

that’s why reading manga is out of my league, I also apply zoom in japanese subtitles when watching anime.

[damyst]

@damyst : Please consider adding a rule for .subject-readings as well.

Thanks - I updated the script, which (as expected) had already rotted since I wrote it.
Would love to see this addressed in the core app!

[Rrwrex]

@damyst

Would love to see this addressed in the core app!

That and official dark mode support are on my wishlist. I don’t envy anyone trying to maintain CSS override scripts.

I never understood the rabid advocacy for dark themes until I started using one on the majority of the sites I visit. Now it feels like a physical attack every time I switch to a tab with a white background!

[WaniConti]

Hey Everyone,

Thank you for all of your input on this important subject of accessibility to WaniKani! I have added your comments and questions to an already existing feature request to improve accessibility for visually impaired learners. I have also clarified that this is a request to allow changing font sizes.

-Nick at WK

[merlumina]

I used to use WK a lot on my phone, but these days (partially because my phone is bigger than it was in 2017) I find it to be a major pain because for reviews/quizzes the majority of the content is in the top 30% of the screen. I’ve always loved that WK was a PWA and looked pretty good on mobile, but I think the mobile layout could do with a redesign to make things bigger because this is really small and doesn’t feel like a good use of space:

I don’t have trouble seeing (though it would be nice if it was a little bigger), but the experience of clicking into the bar at the top of the screen, which causes the keyboard to pop up at the bottom is super jarring.