1691138 - With high contrast between text and background, we lose any contrast between preferences sidebar and preferences content

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[MarjaE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Steps to reproduce:

In order to read emails, I set black text and white background in preferences > fonts and colors > colors.

Actual results:

... But this loses any contrast between the preferences sidebar and the preferences content.

Since I can't page down in the preferences, I can only scroll, but since there's no contrast and no visual separation, between the non-scrolling sidebar and the scrolling content, I get an instant severe migraine.

Users trying to cope with one visual accessibility problem shouldn't get hit with another.

Expected results:

There should be a clear visual separation, maybe a wide vertical bar, maybe inverting colors in the sidebar.

Comment 1

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

We should have a (minimum) 1px border in foreground_color to separate the sidebar/page content. cc micah/molly

Comment 2

[MarjaE]

Still not fixed in 115. I visited Preferences to try to make message lists readable, and got a nasty stabby migraine and motion sickness for my trouble.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to MarjaE from comment #0)

There should be a clear visual separation, maybe a wide vertical bar, maybe inverting colors in the sidebar.

Comment 4

[Elizabeth Gray [:elizabeth]]

I will take a look at this to confirm it and get some screenshots so we know better what is broken.

Thanks for reporting this.

Comment 5

[Elizabeth Gray [:elizabeth]]

There should be some visual separation between the sidebar and the settings content.

I tested this in 115.3.1 and 115.3.2 in Windows 11.

Comment 6

[Elizabeth Gray [:elizabeth]]

Attachment: Bug 1691138 - Add border on settings pages for high contrast. r=aleca

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/8ae703d93fa5
Add border on settings pages for high contrast. r=aleca

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9357928 [details]
Bug 1691138 - Add border on settings pages for high contrast. r=aleca

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta (request via matrix)

Comment 9

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 120.0b2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/6549b4b462b5

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

good for 115?

Comment 11

[Elizabeth Gray [:elizabeth]]

Yes, this can be uplifted.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9357928 [details]
Bug 1691138 - Add border on settings pages for high contrast. r=aleca

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr115 (per Elizabeth)

Comment 13

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 115.5.2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr115/rev/bfd1277cd78c