Firefox tabs are not friendly to the visually impaired, is there a solution?
I have been helping a family member who has some health and visual difficulties, using firefox desktop for Mac. I am realizing how very difficult it is to navigate the tabs for this person; actually the whole top of the page takes her a lot of work to find what she needs. Tabs, icons, the bookmarks toolbars, these are all just a bunch of tiny text & icons that have no visual cues to differentiate what is what. It is even hard to tell which tab you are on, the color difference is so slight. I tried searching for themes that would perhaps make a difference but all they do is change the background color. Is there anything I can change that will make firefox more usable for this person?
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You could try searching for tab colors on the add-ons site. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ Apparently there is one called Colorful Tabs. Otherwise, you would need to create a file called userChrome.css
There is an article dealing with accessibility generally which may be of interest but it doesn't deal with the browser interface. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-features-firefox-make-firefox-and-we
Thank you. I did read the article on accessibility but, like you pointed out, it doesn't change the interface and that is where the problem lays. I will check out colorful tabs, thank you!
I tried a few of the colorful tab themes but none of them seems to make the whole tab a different color and that is what the eyes need. Thanks for trying. I think Mozilla really needs to rethink the accessibility of their interface for the large part of the population that is aging. We need to get back to form following function.
I wasn't suggesting themes but extensions. I have found several. On the add-ons site, select Extensions, then tabs then search tab colors and press ENTER (don't select from the drop-down list). I got 6,910 results and the screenshot shows those at the top of the list.
