--- title: Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert | daily.dev description: Tangled's new UI, rebuilt in Svelte, sets body text at 12px with 16px line height, which the author says is too small for a significant number of people. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tangled-hire-a-front-end-accessibility-expert-ka1qekuha twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert | daily.dev og:description: Tangled's new UI, rebuilt in Svelte, sets body text at 12px with 16px line height, which the author says is too small for a significant number of people. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tangled-hire-a-front-end-accessibility-expert-ka1qekuha og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ka1qekUhA.png og:image:alt: Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert **[dbushell](https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tangled's new UI, rebuilt in Svelte, sets body text at 12px with 16px line height, which the author says is too small for a significant number of people. The pixel-based CSS means the interface ignores browser font-size settings. Forcing a 200% resize to 24px causes text to clip, which the author calls a failure under F69 'clipped, truncated or obscured'. The author recommends Tangled switch to relative units for font size and unit-less line height values, and says serious projects should seek professional expertise. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### why does text get clipped when I resize it to 200% using pixel-based font sizes in CSS Pixel-based font sizing prevents the browser's default text scaling from working properly, so forcing a resize can cause line heights and containers to stay fixed while text grows, leading to clipped or overlapping characters. WCAG 2.2's success criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text requires that content remain usable at up to 200% zoom without loss of content or functionality. _Developers auditing CSS for text-resize bugs can track accessibility write-ups like this on daily.dev._ ### what font size does Tangled's new UI use and is it accessible Tangled's redesigned interface, built in Svelte with the Timeless Sans typeface, sets body text at 12px with 16px line height. This is considered too small for comfortable reading, and WCAG guidelines, while not specifying a minimum font size, require text to resize up to 200% without clipping or loss of functionality, which Tangled's fixed pixel units fail to support. _Anyone evaluating GitHub alternatives can follow coverage of Tangled's usability issues on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables — Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/posts/testing-font-scaling-for-accessibility-with-figma-variables-smashing-magazine-kh7bchzym) · Smashing Magazine · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Responsive and Fluid Typography with Baseline CSS Features](https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-and-fluid-typography-with-baseline-css-features-rnoepawxs) · OddBird · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why default Tailwind is not always an accessible choice](https://daily.dev/posts/why-default-tailwind-is-not-always-an-accessible-choice-efwxtqbfi) · Spatie · 50 upvotes · 5 comments - [Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary](https://daily.dev/posts/try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary-zh7hnyphu) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#accessibility](https://daily.dev/tags/accessibility) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/tangled-hire-a-front-end-accessibility-expert-ka1qekuha) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tangled-hire-a-front-end-accessibility-expert-ka1qekuha","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/tangled-hire-a-front-end-accessibility-expert-ka1qekuha"},"datePublished":"2026-10-31T15:00:49.481Z","dateModified":"2026-10-31T15:01:15.822Z","description":"Tangled's new UI, rebuilt in Svelte, sets body text at 12px with 16px line height, which the author says is too small for a significant number of people. 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