Mobile app text size and color

[stimme]

I am excited to see support for the Discussions/Announcements Redesign came to the iOS versions of Canvas Student and Canvas Teacher yesterday. That said, I want to suggest a couple of changes to its mobile implementation.

1. The iOS system setting for larger text should affect the text size in Discussions in the mobile apps. In my initial testing, it appeared to have no effect. (That system setting does affect text in courses using the original Discussions UI, tool indexes, etc.)
2. The Canvas user account setting for high contrast UI should cause the text in Discussions to be black, not gray.

If there's a different place I should post these suggestions, please just let me know. Thank you!

[TomGibbons]

I want to second this. I've been a teacher and admin in Canvas for the last 12 years or so. Right now, I'm taking a class where the discussions redesign has been turned on. Generally, I use the app to stay engaged with classes I'm taking--I use it a lot to check in on discussions. Data I've seen seems to support this as a common use behavior for the app. 

There's a lot of wasted space between the text and the controls. The font on the redesign in the app is incredibly small. Reading through 48 responses was just exhausting. I've also tried on an iPad and an Android tablet. The user experience wasn't fun. 

Here is a discussion from the class I'm taking, side-by-side with a discussion from a test course using OG discussions, from the iOS app, running on an iPhone 14 Pro. 

Original recipe      Redesign

[tom_gibbons]

I voted for this twice. 🙂