Best Practices for Handling Display Zoom/Large Text Scaling in MAUI Apps

[developer9969]

Hi all,
I'm working on a .NET MAUI app and need guidance on handling system-level display zoom and large text scaling. I've already implemented FontAutoScalingEnabled="False" for text controls, but I'm facing challenges with the overall UI scaling when users enable "Display Zoom" or "Larger Text" in their device accessibility settings.

all my pretty design page goes out of the window!!

I would appreciate if anyone can share their thoughts on how to handle "Display Zoom - larger text - under Display and brighteness ios and also if it applies to android..

Can I override and disable this behaviour with an handler ?

thanks for any input

[JohnHSE]

Accessibility is an important part of good app design and should be considered from day 1, I suggest you work with the accessibility options the OSes provide rather than against. There is also legislation coming into the EU this year regarding accessibility, other countries have similar rules coming into play too.

[developer9969]

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately this was a xamarin app ported to Maui , and we are where we are... Page by page I am going to address it - however it would be helpful to know how people address the following specially where you have busy screens

1. Display & Brightness - Display Zoom -set to Large text
2. Accessabilty Display & Text Size

Now if I user enables Display Zoom -set to Large text and also increases the text size , the screens will have overlap issues....

Surely there must be some dos and dont or sample app somewhere

I use grid all the time - I tend not to harcode height and width - etc..

if anyone who is written an app with accessability in mind and has a link - that would be fantastic or share tips please.

thanks