Nighttime/TiredEyes Hat? Parent/Super Hat? Sub-hats?

[Noitidart]

I know multi-hats is for a single person thing but a night time hat may fit. What do you think?

At night time I usually change the (lighting on my monitor) and the accessibility/hat part: increase font sizes. The australis menu is also kind of small. But whatever I do in all other hats I would do under night time hat so probably not a hat?

I have gotten feedback from some users that if there is something to increase the size of everything in general (specifically the Australis main menu [under tristripe btn]) and the url bar tab areas.

So maybe would this be a parent/super hat? And others a subhat or not a hat at all? Like would we expect a person to have constant eyes (maybe its just my eyes?), no tired eyes.

[Noitidart]

Whoops forgot that every title change triggers a record! :P

[Yoric]

I like the feature, but I don't think this should be a parent hat.

[Noitidart]

Cool :) The reason I thought it would be parent hat is because at night i might go into my banking hat, but i would like things nice and big. Or i might go into my reader hat or other hat and i would like things nice and big (and if applicable brightness a bit dimmed as no more sunlight coming through my window)

So that content that gets browsed at night time is still dependent, but with one constant of all things being sized up and other things to make it easier on my eyes. Thats why i was on the fence about hatifying this :P

[Yoric]

Actually, this should probably be a built-in feature of Firefox :)

[Noitidart]

Oh cool makes sense :)

Quick test: I tried putting in a transform:scale(2) on the style tag of main-window, it works ok, except if its fullscreen, or maximized window, then the scrollbars and other chrome ui is off screen :(

[ianb]

The way I think about it: what is the user trying to do when they want a feature like this? Probably they are trying to relax and tone down their day, avoid getting stimulated by blue light. That seems like something that a Firefox Focus user might want, since maybe a general theme of that Hat is reducing external stimulus. Maybe there's another segment too.

In terms of implementation, I presume it would be an addon – and that addon can certainly be applied to more than one Hat if it makes sense. So we don't have to sort every feature to just one Hat. A feature might find a clear audience in one Hat, get developed and improved there, and ultimately become a general feature.

[Noitidart]

@ianb

what is the user trying to do when they want a feature like this

They are trying to simply read what's on screen. :P hahaha

• After coding for hours I like to increase the size of stuff.
• Older family members say things are too small they cant see it
• People with glasses do not wear them all the time because most things are readable or zoomable

I think maybe a hat is not the right idea. It should be built in like @yoric was thining. Current solutions were themes, but that's not right. Chrome UI scaling should be indpeendent of theming, so other themes can still be applied over it.

Apparently Ken Saunders used to do a lot of accessibility work: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14313647#p14313647