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Color inversion in Firefox Android App

azzydog — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:51:50 GMT

Hey guys,

my eyesight is quite bad, which is why I use color inversion all the time. Turn a white page into a black one and voila: I can read it. My issue is that in Firefox on Android when I invert colors via Android accessibility, any picture flips back to its original color. That's really bad for my usecase because it's extremely hard to read black letters on a white infographic for example and I can't manipulate it anymore.

Is this behavior actually wanted or is it a bug? I'm not quite sure if it's supposed to be a good thing and I'm the only one who doesn't like it. Would be great to hear your opinion and whether or not I should submit it as a bug.

Thanks!

Re: Color inversion in Firefox Android App

Wireball — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:39:51 GMT

That's interesting that it flips the images back on a system-wide color inversion. I'm not experiencing that on Android 12 / Firefox 129.0; I'm guessing that they either fixed it since your post, or it behaves differently on my phone.

On a side note, I do appreciate you mentioning that such a setting exists, because I was looking a way to change a white-background website to a black background for more comfortable night viewing. Thanks! Yes, I see that it does change my normally-dark toolbars to white, but that's better than the main page being all bright (alternatively, if I want un-inverted images I see that reader view is available on Android, but that's not what you were after).

Re: Color inversion in Firefox Android App

azzydog — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:37:32 GMT

Yes it's been fixed 🙂 Check out the dark reader addon. it turns white websites to black. works on Firefox for Android and PC