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Firefox Quantum has made a clean break from Firefox’s legacy addons. Hooray!
A casualty of this change is the ability to have addons that fundamentally alter Firefox’s user interface. This can be a problem if you depended on this for accessibility needs. Say, you had an addon that enlarged the fonts in Firefox’s chrome....

After porting Aaron’s NoCoffee extension to Firefox, I thought it would be neat to make a camera version of that. Something you can carry around with you, and take snapshots of websites, signs, or print material. You can then easily share the issues...

Four years ago, on a snowy February day, Aaron Leventhal huddled in his unheated home and created a Chrome extension called NoCoffee. This extension allows users to experience web content through different lenses of visual impairments*.
I recently ran across this extension again, and thought it is high-time we ported it to Firefox. Firefox’s support of WebExtension standards means that this should be trivial. It was! With Aaron’s permission, I posted the source to github and did some...

If you use Firefox Nightly, you may notice that there is no more Accessibility section in the preferences screen, this change will arrive in Firefox 56 as part of a preferences reorg. This is good news!
Cursor browsing and search while you type, are still available under the Browsing section, as these options offer convenience for everybody, regardless of disability. Users should now be able to find an option under an appropriate feature section, or...