1012399 - The about:preferences buttons font is too pale for in-content preference

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Florent Fayolle]

Attachment: button-pale-font.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140515140857

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open about:preferences
2. Go to the "General" tab
3. Look at "Use Current Pages" button


Actual results:

The button font is too pale. It looks like it is disabled, whereas it is not.

Also I fear that this is also very bad for accpessibility, especially for people with a visual deficiency (but I am not an expert in this domain). 

Florent

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to fayolle-florent from comment #0)
> 3. Look at "Use Current Pages" button
It looks to me just like the other 2 buttons: 'Use bookmark' and 'Restore to default'

Comment 2

[Florent Fayolle]

> It looks to me just like the other 2 buttons: 'Use bookmark' and 'Restore to default'

Yes, indeed, the remark is the same for these two buttons.

Florent

Comment 3

[cousteau]

Couldn't about:preferences just use the same theme as the one used in the old Preferences dialog?  Not only are the font and widgets too pale, they're also too big and inconsistent with the rest of the desktop environment (or the browser itself, as it's based on Gtk2 widgets).  This may also mean the dialog not fitting in 1024x768 screens.

Right now my visual experience with about:preferences is that it's too hard to read due to the excessively big font size and strange look of the controls, and my brain blocks and can't concentrate on what I'm reading.  A simpler style would help reading.

Comment 4

[Tim Nguyen :ntim]

The color was changed to black a few months ago.

Comment 5

[Florent Fayolle]

Indeed, much better now. Thanks :).

Florent