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Re: High Contrast Mode in Windows on Fire Fox

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From: James Nurthen
Date: May 23, 2014 3:54PM

Michael,
I just checked again and High Contrast Mode works fine on FF 24 ESR
However it is broken on my FF 31 Instance.

What version are you using?

Is anyone aware of a bug being logged for this? If not I'll log one when I
get a chance.

Regards,
James


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Michael Moore < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Yes,
>
> The browser controls are all displayed in high contrast but the setting has
> no effect on the display of the page. I have tried multiple sites just to
> be sure. Chrome prompted me to install a plug-in but it worked, sort of it
> gives you its own high contrast theme that you have to configure to match
> what you have in windows but I seems to have some good flexibility. Perhaps
> FF requires a separately installed plug-in too.
>
> Well I just answered my own question. You can get high contrast by setting
> the colors using the no squint plug-in - and you can keep the background
> images which are lost with IE in high contrast.
>
> Interestingly Adobe Reader does the same thing with documents - the
> controls for reader are displayed in high contrast and the displayed
> document is left the same as the original. More fodder for the folks who
> find PDF accessibility less than sufficient. And more fuel for me to
> continue insist that we publish all of our critical program information in
> HTML.
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, James Nurthen < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Did you reload the page?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Michael Moore
> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:
> >
> > > The browser window in FF does not appear to honor Windows High Contrast
> > > Mode? Am I doing something wrong or do I need to install a plug in
> like I
> > > do with Chrome to make this work?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Mike Moore
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > >