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[BUG] Accessibility Issue when Using Android's Largest Font and Display Size #111
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Issue Description
I use Android's largest font and display size in the accessibility settings. This can be enabled on a Pixel and some other devices by going to Settings, then Accessibility, then Display Size & Text, then turn both the Font and Display size up too the max.
Once this is done, after selecting a video file I am unable to view the options to compress the video how I would like it.
Words are cut off and buttons that I need to select options and are cut off too.
Expected Behaviour
I expected to be able to fully see the options to compress the video how I want.
Device Info
Device Manufacturer*: Google
- Device Model* : Pixel 9
- Android Version* : 17
- Compressor Version* :1.6.4
- Where did you get Compressor from?* (GitHub Releases, IzzyOnDroid/F-Droid, Google Play Store): Izzyondroid
- Device Chipset (e.g. Exynos 9820): Tensor G4
App: Compressor v1.6.4
Device: Google Pixel 9 (Android 17)
Chipset: Google Tensor G4
RAM: 10.9 GB
GPU: Mali-G715
Device-specific Workaround: None
Supported Encoders: video/avc, video/hevc, video/av01
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JoshAtticus commentedon Sep 1, 2026
Thanks for opening an issue @sleepyplacebo. To be completely honest, I never thought about this when making the app. I'll try my best to fix it.
JoshAtticus commentedon Sep 1, 2026
@sleepyplacebo Would this be good enough? Max display size AND max font size leaves practically zero room so it looks like absolute garbage but other apps I've tried with this scaling don't look that much better and it's at least slightly usable at the cost of not being able to see as much information
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scaling hell (for #111)
sleepyplacebo commentedon Sep 2, 2026
I can try it and see if it works better. It does seem to look better from what I can see from that screenshot. You did a good job. I am very thankful that you care enough about accessibility to do this work for me for what is probably a niche issue and you did it at no cost to me to try to help me use your app. :)
But there may be someone else someday who comes along trying to use your app with similar disabilities who will benefit from these changes too. Your app is unique among the compression apps I have seen. So I think this work could be worthwhile separate from just me using your app, even if it's an issue that impacts a minority of your users.
Is the UI scrollable so that I can get down to the Medium, Low preset etc? Is the part where it says "Presets" able to be scrolled to the side by holding down and scrolling so I can get to the Video and other part ?
Yeah I know what you mean about how various apps are kinda smushed together. There are some apps that work quite well at these sizes and others that don't. I don't think a large amount of apps do frequent testing with these sizes. I can totally understand it being something you didn't think of as a small individual dev, that's okay. But sometimes it is massive corporations not optimising for large font and display sizes as well, even when there are open source alternatives with much smaller teams doing it better.
I have actually had more trouble getting help from proprietary apps from massive corporations compared to FOSS apps.
If I try it and have any further issues do you mind if I submit another issue report?
I saw what you said about the limitation you described with not being able to see certain info. Some apps try to solve issues like this by implementing in app font and or app scaling or changing the UI in other ways but idk how difficult that is to do for your app and you have already done a lot to help, I don't want to ask for too much. This screenshot seems promising.
Less info being visible is a good compromise if that is what needs to be done compared to it not being functional at these sizes.
Thank you again.
JoshAtticus commentedon Sep 3, 2026
@sleepyplacebo I've done a few more qol improvements, everything is fully accessible, I decided to make more information collapsable/expandable so there is zero functionality loss! This will be available in the next release.
Click to view images (I put them in a dropdown so they wouldn't take up so much space in the thread
sleepyplacebo commentedon Sep 11, 2026
Thank you so much. You did a great job. I am really thankful for this.
JoshAtticus commentedon Oct 5, 2026
Hopefully solved in 1.6.5! Please let me know if this is not the case!