Closed Bug 1570884 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

left-hand friendly mode

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: lolipopplus, Unassigned)

Details

Just a request from my friend:

Current browsers are all designed in convenience for right-hand users.
I hope there is a browser that can provide a special mode more friendly to left-hand users, desktop and/or mobile.
This means all control UI will be re-adjusted to its mirror position, in compromise that left-hand users put mouse on the left.

Type: -- → enhancement
Flags: a11y-review+

Removing flag since this is used by engineers to request an accessibility review from a team.

Flags: a11y-review+

Is this mainly for touch based devices? Like a Windows touchscreen laptop/PC? You can move most UI elements in the customize mode to the opposite side of the window, but it looks like the main and overflow menus are always fixed to the right side (in LTR languages, anyway).

Are you just concerned about the main bar with the URL bar and back/forward/menu buttons?

Flags: needinfo?(lolipopplus)

Actually mainly for non-touch based devices.
And as how he described: "would prefer a global switch button."
despite URL bar and back/forward/menu buttons, there are also window control buttons, scroll bar (and its initial position), overflow menu, toolbar position, browser built-in page UI, etc.
basically a global UI change.

Flags: needinfo?(lolipopplus)

I don't think this makes sense on desktop. The mouse being physically on the left side of the computer, and being used by the left hand, has no bearing on how easy it is or isn't to access UI elements in a window. The only place where this would make sense is on mobile, for users who are left-handed and use their phone with their left hand, wanting to e.g. use "thumb"-placed buttons (like the reader mode menu on fennec) on the left instead of the right.

I'll move this over to mobile.

Product: Firefox → Firefox for iOS
Version: Trunk → unspecified

We will track and triage this for the mobile iOS side at: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/5480.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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