1053718 - the charactersize of the mailbox is too small for elder people. Can it be enlarged?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 570442

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Bruno]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I am using thunderbird on a HP laptop with  1600x900 resolution. The list of incoming mail is in a small charactersize, the user is unable to read. Is there a possibility to enlarge the characterset. For reading the mesages, the <ctr>+<+> keys are working fine, but do not enlarge the text in the inbox.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Another candidate for bug 1019652 :)

Josiah, do you know what to put in the userChrome file to enlarge the font in message pane/folder pane ?

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

A easy way to change the font size (and some more) globally would be: https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/theme-font-size-changer/ After install on main toolbar or in main menu under Tools where would be the menuitem to change the size.

Comment 3

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
> Another candidate for bug 1019652 :)
> 
> Josiah, do you know what to put in the userChrome file to enlarge the font
> in message pane/folder pane ?

tree > treechildren {
  font-size: value-larger-than-default !important;
}

I suggest 14px. I'll attach a screenshot.

Comment 4

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Attachment: Font size at 14px

This is what that looks like.

This all being said. It would be really easy to add the native ability to increase the font size, I think we should pursue that.

Comment 5

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

We can investigate adding a way to increase font size.

We have a couple options:

1. Allow *all* font to be increased. (Pros: Universally better accessibility. Cons: May totally trash the UI)

2. Allow certain, more important elements to have increased font size (For example my line of CSS code above). (Pros: Better accessibility for the important information, not as damaging to the UI. Cons: Part of the UI will still be hard to read, inconsistency in font size.)

3. Keep this as an add-on.

I'm leaning towards #2 myself, which will also be a lot easier to implement.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

yes, please!  this is often requested in support forums, and I think is bug 570442. Notice the duplicates