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Firefox tabs are not friendly to the visually impaired, is there a solution?

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DB-1
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I have been helping a family member who has some health and visual difficulties, using firefox desktop for Mac. I am realizing how very difficult it is to navigate the tabs for this person; actually the whole top of the page takes her a lot of work to find what she needs. Tabs, icons, the bookmarks toolbars, these are all just a bunch of tiny text & icons that have no visual cues to differentiate what is what. It is even hard to tell which tab you are on, the color difference is so slight. I tried searching for themes that would perhaps make a difference but all they do is change the background color. Is there anything I can change that will make firefox more usable for this person?

I have been helping a family member who has some health and visual difficulties, using firefox desktop for Mac. I am realizing how very difficult it is to navigate the tabs for this person; actually the whole top of the page takes her a lot of work to find what she needs. Tabs, icons, the bookmarks toolbars, these are all just a bunch of tiny text & icons that have no visual cues to differentiate what is what. It is even hard to tell which tab you are on, the color difference is so slight. I tried searching for themes that would perhaps make a difference but all they do is change the background color. Is there anything I can change that will make firefox more usable for this person?

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Terry
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You could try searching for tab colors on the add-ons site. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ Apparently there is one called Colorful Tabs. Otherwise, you would need to create a file called userChrome.css

There is an article dealing with accessibility generally which may be of interest but it doesn't deal with the browser interface. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-features-firefox-make-firefox-and-we

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Thank you. I did read the article on accessibility but, like you pointed out, it doesn't change the interface and that is where the problem lays. I will check out colorful tabs, thank you!

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I tried a few of the colorful tab themes but none of them seems to make the whole tab a different color and that is what the eyes need. Thanks for trying. I think Mozilla really needs to rethink the accessibility of their interface for the large part of the population that is aging. We need to get back to form following function.

Terry
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I wasn't suggesting themes but extensions. I have found several. On the add-ons site, select Extensions, then tabs then search tab colors and press ENTER (don't select from the drop-down list). I got 6,910 results and the screenshot shows those at the top of the list.