We believe that accessibility settings should be an afterthought for no one. A user who can navigate to the formula bar settings but hits a wall with the function arguments box is not asking for a luxury; they are asking for a tool that respects the full range of human vision and ability. This Reddit post from a blind accounting student makes the point plainly: they found the accessibility menu, they made one adjustment work, and then the system stopped being helpful. That gap is not a minor oversight. It is a signal that the design of the interface still assumes a default user who does not need to adapt.
For this person, and for thousands of others who strain to read small text in dialog boxes, the experience of using a spreadsheet becomes a series of small frustrations that add up to real friction. They already know how to find the formula bar, they already know how to use the `fx` button, and they already know that the software has accessibility settings. The problem is that those settings do not reach every corner of the interface. The function arguments box remains stubbornly small, as if it were a separate application that never got the memo about user preferences. That is not a technical limitation; it is a design choice that excludes people who need larger fonts to do their work.
The practical takeaway for spreadsheet developers is simple but significant: every dialog box, every pop-up, every nested panel must inherit the user's accessibility settings. If a user can enlarge the formula bar, they should be able to enlarge the function arguments box by the same method. The technology to propagate font sizes across UI components exists. The question is whether the product team prioritizes that consistency. For the user who wrote this post, the answer is clearly no, and that answer matters more than most feature requests because it touches the basic dignity of being able to see your own work.
This student is not asking for a new feature. They are asking for the software to finish what it started. The accessibility menu is a promise, and the function arguments box is where that promise is broken. Fixing it does not require a revolution. It requires mapping the same font-size control to every element that displays text in the spreadsheet environment. Until that happens, the message to users like this one is that their needs are optional. We think that message is wrong, and we think the fix is overdue.