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Comment by koch | Hacker News Reader

I want to be able to type instead of clicking on letters

Good point. How would you want to control it?

You would just start typing, and it would try and select each letter in turn, or show a little blip if you didn't have that character available

That makes sense, thanks for the idea.

arrow keys & highlight

Also a good idea :-) Thanks!

More request/advice f you're still reading. On mobile:

- The UI takes like only 25% of the screen. Enlarge it at least 3x.

- Tried to flip to landscape to see if it'll at least make it slightly bigger, nope.

I am always reading :-) and thanks for taking the time to give feedback!

I agree that I have a challenge with real estate use on mobile and that I have to find a way to improve it.

What device are you using?

No worries on upvote, you didn't need to. Android, samsung browser.

Thanks. What is the screen size?

galaxy note 10

Almost the same here - Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite.

Very good point about the accessibility perspective regarding font size and contrast. I will also look into if the font should be replaced with a more readable one.

Do you also think that the letters and sliders are too small on the phone?

iPhone 15 Pro here and for me (old, eyesight finally starting to give up) they are a bit small and the contrast low - difficult to distinguish between the F and P in the middle channel of today's puzzle.

Could maybe do with the vertical bars being about 50% bigger and the letters scaled a bit more than that. Plus a high contrast option (white channels with black letters with white letters in the middle bit? Something like that anyway.)

BTW - sorry for not upvoting your comments until now. I am new to HC

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