329271 - New menu item and toolbar button to temporarily override page's fonts and colors

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227166

(Firefox :: Disability Access, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

This came out of a discussion with mconnor and others about bug 277966.  The idea is to have a way to temporarily toggle the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" and "Allow pages to choose their own colors" for a specific tab, without digging through 2 layers of options dialogs and without changing it globally and permanently.

Such a feature could live in the View/Text Size menu (possibly renamed View/Text Style) and would have the same persistence as the Increase/Decrease Text Size menu items, i.e. it would stay in effect for that particular tab as long as the tab was open, but it would not be written to disk.  Ideally, the change would be immediate and would not require a page refresh, but I have no idea if that's realistic.

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

To clarify, the toolbar button should not be displayed by default; it should just be one of the available buttons in the Customize Toolbar window.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Something like the "Fonts" checkbox of Prefbuttons?

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

With Prefbuttons you need to click in the box again to undo the change but mostly you only use that just to see how the site looks with the original fonts. You don't need to reload. Has always worked well.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Hm I didn't change that to assigned! :)

Comment 5

[Micah Bucy]

seems to me, it would be a pain to require the user to do this for every page especially as an accessiblity feature, so I hope you don't plan on removing the global feature in doing this.

Comment 6

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

This would be in addition to the current global persistent preference.

Comment 7

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227166 ***