If you or someone who know finds it difficult to read the text in Mail, Contacts or Notes on the iPad, try increasing the text size. Below are the steps for increasing the text size. Please note that these steps will only increase the text size for Mail, Contacts and Notes.
1. Press the Home button to show the Home screen.

2. Press Settings.

3. Press General.

4. Swipe to the bottom of the General Settings. Press Accessibility.

5. Press Large Text.

6. Press the desired text size.

7. Now the text size in Mail, Contacts and Notes will be larger.
[...] The iPad has built-in accessibility features, which enable the text size to be increased. Increasing the text size is the topic of the first of my iPad 101 tutorials. The tutorials are hosted on my RWH Technology [...]