Firefox accessibility issue

Poster: gardnose
Dated: Tuesday July 17 2007 - 20:37:29 BST

If you use the Firefox content options to disable CSS
(tools/options/content/colours/ untick allow page to choose their own colours)
then the background for any drop-down menus becomes transparent. This makes the menus impossible to read when they overlay any other text.

Does anyone know of a solution for this? I've had a visitor with disabilities try to use the menus and complain about this issue.
Obviously there's a noscript solution, but the visitor would prefer not to have to play around with the javascript settings.

Re: Firefox accessibility issue

Poster: elvira
Dated: Monday August 6 2007 - 10:29:10 BST

Well ... quite honestly, I believe there comes a time when website users have to take responsibility for their own choices of which browsers to use for what and what they've got enabled / disabled etc.

While we all want to be helpful, there's a limit to how many people we can please at once, and if what a visitor chooses to do with your css conflicts with what you've done with JavaScript, then the choice of using the JavaScript or not is still theirs - Heaven knows it's easy enough to toggle on and off in FF.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday August 7 2007 - 4:59:11 BST

Hi,

It sounds like this is a css issue. Are you doing your menu styling in css rather than the menu proper? If it were in the menu itself that should not be an issue. However, if you want to use the css styling, then there is nothing you can do about someone turning off the css if you're designing the menu in css. I hope I understood what you were saying is happening.

Ruth