After updating to Safari 10 (most recent as of 10-14-16), the option of keeping images the proper fixed size while increasing text size only is gone. Now whenI zoom text, everything gets larger. This is NOT what I want. Where's that option now?
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), MPro, MBookPro iPad iPhone iMacs
"Hold down the option/alt key, then click on the View menu to select Make Text Bigger or Male Text Smaller."
This is the answer that many were looking for. I repeat it here for those (like me, for a moment!) who didn't read it because it started out with "if you are using the Sierra OS." For everyone else, including me, the above "brings back" exactly the feature we were looking for. Why Apple chose to hide it like this, as with the Go -> Library menu option in the finder, is a puzzler! But thank you Mr Root.
Have you tried pressing the Option key?
Agreed, and it's a huge accessibility problem. I have tried the option>view>make text bigger and unfortunately it's functioning the same as page zoom. There is a difference between zoom and large text. When you zoom, all coding - all boxes - columns - features, everything on the page zooms. When you default a large minimum text size, only the text is larger and everything else remains in the confines of its original size. I cannot comfortably use Safari right now because I can't see. Just because I zoom in doesn't mean I can see any better, because now the page size is warped. Minimum font sizing is a standard and I just can't understand what would make them change it.
I've had some success with the option key method. But I can't find the minimum font size setting in the menus. It used to be there. I don't see that well either and I have the gonzo huge hires iMac so even a normal 12 or 14 pt font looks like ants. Is apple run by teenagers now?
If you are using the Sierra OS, quit Safari. Copy and paste the Terminal command from this article into Terminal. The last 2 digits (14) can be changed to your desired size. Then hit return. Reopen Safari. If you aren’t using Sierra, hold down the option/alt key, then click on the View menu to select Make Text Bigger or Male Text Smaller.
Safari 10 Minimum Font Size (2)
Me too very disappointed with this, as many websites use css and graphic imagery which does not zoom at same ratre as text, and so zooming whole page makes the page go pffscreen. My problem is that as screens get more and more higher pixel counts, the text is getting tiner and tinier. and so on a 2.5 K iMac, despite being a large screen, webpages are tiny text for my eyes to read. whereas zoom text only allows me to leav the page width the same, but increae text size for readability
Safari is also causing lots of buggy things to happen if watching video at same time as looking at another webpage, especially in split screen. It just does not seem to be keeping up with the code in many websites. it wont p[ay videos in websites like cbs and the wall street journal, daily mail etc at all.
But the text to zoom thing as you say, is a very essential tool that has been removed, and should be put back
Having said this, this feature has also disappeared from Firefox too.
I use Safari because i edit blogs, and Safari allows me to use dictation toi speak and type, and also text replacements to fill in reusable phrases with shortcode, whereas i cannot do that in firefox or other browsers.
It makes a big difference ti type 'ippi' and it replaces that with a whole paragraph of pre-written text full of 'I Phone Product Infromation'
Text replacement tool has been a lifesaver for me when having to add texts which are repeatedly added to the same product type in my online store, without having to type it myself or copy and paste from some notepad.
for example, if i type 'WCH', it will become 'Wat Chang Hai Temple in Pattani'
If it were not for this feature, i would have stopped using Safari a year ago, as it is seemingly deprecated with many websites. It is completely deprecated in Windows devices already.
'Zoom Text only' is gone !!
