Bug Report

• I’ve searched for any related issues and avoided creating a duplicate issue.

What happened

When the typography updates first happened earlier this year, the VA.gov website was finally respecting browser font settings. However, this doesn't happen anymore on the VA.gov website.

What I expected to happen

What I expected to happen was that the font would become very large when I set the font to "Very Large". This used to happen up until 12/6/24 according to the Way back machine. You can see the change clearly here:

• This is one particular snapshot of the VA.gov homepage on 12/6 and it does respect browser font sizes
  

• Then this is the snapshot immediately after and still on 12/6 yet the fonts are not increasing in size
  

It seems that something happened/was merged during 12/6 that caused this changed on the website.

Reproducing

• Formation version:
• Device: (e.g. iPhone 8, Macbook)
• Browser: (e.g. Firefox, IE 11)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go into Chrome > Settings > Appearance > Font size
2. Change your font settings to something other than the default
3. The font on the website should respond to your new settings.
4. Notice that the font no longer changes size depending on the setting you have set

Urgency

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• This bug is blocking work currently in progress
• This bug is affecting work currently in progress but we have a workaround
• This bug is blocking work planned within the next few sprints
• This bug is not blocking any work
• Other

Details

This bug is not blocking work but it is and accessibility issue and is blocking access to the website for users that depend on larger font sizes to be able to read and see the text clearly.