firefox-devtools
The marker timeline labels are difficult to read (Low vision accessability)
The marker timeline canvus (click the Timeline button and look down) where the markers are drawn on a horizontal timeline, has difficult to read labels for the markers. My firefox is configured to ignore the colours of a site and substitute my own high contrast inverse colours. When this happens the titles on the left of these markers have some poor contrast and can be difficult to read. I would like them to have white-on-black, and perhaps a larger font.
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at the moment, we "draw" the labels in the canvas and that's why your configuration doesn't apply.
Our plan for the general layout of this tab is:
- split this tab in 2 tabs: https://github.com/devtools-html/perf.html/issues/563
- display markers for the selected thread only: https://github.com/devtools-html/perf.html/issues/478 (this issue is badly named, or maybe we should file a separate issue) This will make the current gutter useless and the plan is to move the labels there.
I don't know if this would be reliable to draw the markers in a canvas while rendering the labels in HTML. But we can try it.
@PaulBone could you provide steps to configure our own browsers this way? That way we can try it out with the same settings.
In the Firefox preferences, scroll down to "Fonts and colours", click "Colours", I choose: Text: white Background: black Unvisited link medium blue Visited link: medum red
Untick "Use system colours" Choose "Always" for "Override the colours specified by the page".
One of these days I'll write this up, with screenshots and other information as a blog post, since I've learnt that many people are curious.
I'm sorry @julienw, I forgot to respond to this:
I don't know if this would be reliable to draw the markers in a canvas while rendering the labels in HTML. But we can try it.
I think I've seen that done before, and if it is what I think it is, then it looked awful. Although I may be mistaken, I'm not a web programmer myself.
I think I originally drew the markers with the canvas mainly because it was an easy prototype.