You can choose whether Firefox adapts to High Contrast themes or ignores them. Right now, it's all-or-nothing without the ability to, for example, override foreground/background colors but allow background images.

To make the switch, you can use the Content panel of the Options page:

"3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options > Content

Click the "Colors" button and you will see a selector with three choices:

Override the colors specified by the page with my selections above:

• Always
• Only with High Contrast themes (default)
• Never

Try the third setting to allow page colors and background images.

That said:

(1) Maybe there is an add-on that splits the difference? I haven't searched for one myself. YOu could try a search here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/

(2) You can submit suggestions for feature changes in future versions of Firefox here: https://input.mozilla.org/feedback

You can look at the NoSquint extension to set font size (text/page zoom) and text color on web pages.

• NoSquint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nosquint/

jscher2000 said

Try the third setting to allow page colors and background images.

...but it defeats the purpose of high contrast.

(2) You can submit suggestions for feature changes in future versions of Firefox here: https://input.mozilla.org/feedback

I think this is worth improving in future versions, as this inconvenience renders the high contrast abilities unusable in practice.

Thanks so much for your response

cor-el said

You can look at the NoSquint extension to set font size (text/page zoom) and text color on web pages.

I have just found one that rocks. It provides 5 different strategies to modify the look of the web page: "Black background and white text" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/black-background-white-text/?src=api

Thank you!