Closed Bug 1721519 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

High contrast mode removes subtitles from Youtube videos at least on MacOS

Categories

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Disability Access
Version:
Firefox 88
Platform:
Desktop
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: erwinm, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

Check System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Increase contrast

Open Firefox

Open a video in Youtube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Giy_LHAlU and try to enable subtitles -- they don't show up

Quit Firefox

Uncheck System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Increase contrast

Open the video again and try to enable subtitles -- they do show up.

Actual results:

Users have to disable high contrast mode and restart Firefox before subtitles will appear.

Expected results:

Users should be able to use high contrast mode and subtitles at the same time.

Component: Untriaged → Disability Access
OS: Unspecified → macOS
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop

Behavior is erratic, sometimes they appear, sometimes not.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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