277966 - Force bold through view > text size

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Disability Access, enhancement)

Description

[simsalabimladen]

Joe Clark points out that some users tend to copy text to Word in order to
change it to bold and enlarge. Firefox can already enlarge, but not set to bold,
which would be a great accessibility improvement. View > Text size > Bold as
well as a keyboard shortcut is my proposal.

Other accessibility tips from the article could also be considered for
implementation.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Couldn't find a dupe
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Comment 2

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

At the risk of derailing this bug (which is an excellent idea as stated), I want to point out what Opera offers in its View --> Style menu.  There are two basic modes, "Author mode" and "User mode".  If User mode is enabled, you can fine-tune the presentation in a number of ways.  Several of them are silly ("Nostalgia" forces everything into a 40-column monospaced layout and puts "Opera for 8-bit browsers" at the top of the page), and others are really only useful for developers and are already handled by the Web Developer's Extension or the View Generated Source bookmarklet.

However, Opera has 2 interesting options:

- Accessible layout, which appears to disable all stylesheets and force black text, light green background, larger font, bold, and larger line height.

- High contrast (B/W) or (W/B).  Firefox may actually be ahead here, since we already respect the high contrast bit set at the OS level and force web content to respect the current OS-level high contrast theme.

I think Firefox is already better than Opera in this respect; combined with View --> Page Style --> No Style, it's almost identical to Accessible Layout + High contrast.

Many of the other things mentioned in Joe's article are, I think, already handled by Firefox ("invert the screen" and "customize colors" are handled by us respecting the OS's high contrast theme).  The only target left is the users caught in the middle, who *don't* use high contrast themes system-wide but may want to resize individual pages where the text is too small.

Also, it should be noted that Joe Clark has posted some additional thoughts on zoom layouts, here: http://blog.fawny.org/2006/02/04/zlu/

Comment 3

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

marking as WONTFIX, see bug 329271 for a replacement