Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Web Accessibility Tools : Page Zoom Buttons


Page Zoom Buttons is an add-on to Mozilla Firefox that creates buttons that can be placed on a toolbar to execute different zoom functionality. Unfortunately, this tool is not really ready to be used once installed to Firefox. The problem is that you have to physically add the buttons to your tool bar by using: View > Toolbars > Customize and drag the new icons onto a toolbar.


To be honest, the Page Zoom Buttons add-on doesn’t really add new functionality to Firefox as the zooming that it does is identical to the “ctrl +/- “ key combinations. This of course already has its issues. If you zoom in very close and then go to a new page, then you will remain at that magnification. This results in you having to zoom out a bit to gain your bearings on where you currently are in the page.

This tool, like many others, would benefit individuals with poor or degrading eyesight. Although the concept of zooming is sound, no real functionality is added to Firefox. There are better add-ons to Firefox that can do similar jobs and should be considered over this one.

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