Big signatures

[mudsocks]

We've received an increasing number of complaints about the growing number of signatures that are long and use excessive size. As explained to me the former is a major issue for the visually impaired using screen readers. Others feel excessive signatures clutter the forum and hinder readability.

I'm respectfully asking anyone with a large/long signature to scale it down.

Thanks for understanding,
-Jeremy

[riverjoe]

You mean like something with more then 5 syllables ?

[Gresh]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidicious.

[Xtrm tj]

Can I get some opinion on mine please? Seems to me that we are just looking for things to complain about.

To each his own....I guessing does apply here?

Just my $.02, I'm surprised at times what irritates some people.

Edit: the above original reply from me sounds harsh looking at again today.

However I don't want signature, info, links to ever go away. Font size means nothing to me. If I need to change some mods...please PM me.

Carry on everyone.

[sargevining]

People do know they can shut signatures off, right?

Go to Your Profile, Settings, General Settings, scroll down until you see this:

Thread Display Options
Visible Post Elements:
Show Signatures
Show Avatars
Show Images (including attached images and images in [IMG] code)
You have the option to show or hide various elements of messages, which may be of use to users on slow internet connections, or who want to remove extraneous clutter from posts.

Uncheck "Show signatures"

Problem solved.

[SilvrSurfr]

People do know they can shut signatures off, right?

Go to Your Profile, Settings, General Settings, scroll down until you see this:



Uncheck "Show signatures"

Problem solved.

Seems like the easiest solution to me.

[IRONFISH45]

Just learned something new!

[Rolloff]

Seems like the easiest solution to me.

Wouldn't be the HF way.

How about only the ones people find offensive? You could even start a thread to discuss who's heads should roll.

[mudsocks]

People do know they can shut signatures off, right?

Problem solved.

Easy enough for most of us but I'm more concerned about those with visual impairments. See the video below.

Wouldn't be the HF way.

How about only the ones people find offensive? You could even start a thread to discuss who's heads should roll.

The HF way is to assume no offense is intended.

[SilvrSurfr]

Easy enough for most of us but I'm more concerned about those with visual impairments. See the video below.

If a visually impaired person is using an E-Reader, they have a lot more problems than big signatures. Seems to me this is more of a web design issue to accommodate those with visual impairments, rather than a responsibility of individual users. If it's important to the mods, then they should implement policy/design to accommodate visually impaired users. Maybe we should make a rule that trip reports should be written, with no pics or YouTube videos?

We don't even know how many users we're talking about because the definition of visually impaired is ill-defined, and the method of measuring visually impaired people is suspect. Nevertheless, the National Federation of the Blind reports that there were 6.7 million people reported to have a visual disability in 2012. So that's around 2 percent of the US population.

https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics

I have an incurable eye disease that has left me legally blind in my right eye and 70% vision in the other so I can empathize with those more visually impaired than me. I may one day be using an e-reader, and might be approaching the mods about altering their site design to better accommodate me. But I won't be asking individual users to make their sigs smaller - that's not an effective way to approach the issue.