Firefox version 3 has been released for a while now, so a lot of users are exploring its possibilities. One of the great accessibility-related things new to Firefox 3 is full page zoom, where zooming in enlarges not just the text but also the images and the whole layout of the page – so it’s more like magnifying the page than just enlarging the text.
As somebody with low vision, this is a great help at times but I have been frustrated that using the keyboard command-plus method I could only zoom in to a certain extent and then no further. If I held down the command key and used the scroll wheel zooming the page would zoom in much further, but the keyboard commands are more convenient for me to use.
Yesterday I finally discovered a solution to this dilemma! The Mozilla Links magazine has an article on how to tweak Firefox 3 full page zoom and I was able to use their technique to change the maximum keyboard zooming level to 30 times bigger than normal, quite big enough for my worst eyesight days.
The instructions in the linked article are a little technical in places, but they’re fairly clear. If you have any problems then let me know; if there’s a need, I can make a tutorial which takes you through it step by step with screen shots.
- Ricky Buchanan
Extremely useful info for those of us with aging eyeballs. Thanks.
@Mike: Always glad to help aging eyeballs!