No, I am not talking about your TV. Instead, I am thinking of both your computer monitor and your iPhone. For the visually impaired, wide is the way to go.
When you need to enlarge text or zoom in on a regular basis, a wider screen is better than a square or tall one. A wide screen allows the text to stay in cohesive lines, so you can read normailly. The other shapes spreads the test vertically, so you need a to read a column just a few words wide. This is unnatural and you will find it uncomfrotable. So, when you upgrade your computer’s monitor, make sure you get a wide one, not just a big one.
On your iPhone, or iPod Touch (my personal choice), swivel your device widescreen when you are online. For mobile web sites, the page will stretch out nicely. For regular ones, you can zoom in and still read a bit more than a few words at a time. [NB: Condider emailing Apple's iPhone accessibility team at accessibility@apple.com to request that more app developers, including Appl's Mail coders, be encouraged to let their apps swivel too. I have, though I am still awaiting a response.]
So, go wide. you won’t regret it.
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