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New appearance of compose message window is problematic for visually impaired users

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philwhite
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Since the last release of Thunderbird (31.3.0), the appearance of the compose window has changed. The sender, recipient and subject text boxes are by default grayed out, with the content only appearing on a white background on mouseover. As a severely visually impaired user, I find this extremely difficult,, as I simply cannot read black text on a gray background.

Is it possible to override this behavior? Alternatively, how do I best roll back to the previous version? Thanks for any help.

Since the last release of Thunderbird (31.3.0), the appearance of the compose window has changed. The sender, recipient and subject text boxes are by default grayed out, with the content only appearing on a white background on mouseover. As a severely visually impaired user, I find this extremely difficult,, as I simply cannot read black text on a gray background. Is it possible to override this behavior? Alternatively, how do I best roll back to the previous version? Thanks for any help.

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finitarry
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You might find a suitable theme which could help here:

You can get whatever version of Thunderbird you want from here:

philwhite
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Thanks for that.

I don't really like using themes, partly because of the additional overhead of keeping them updated, but more significantly because I have my Win7 system specifically set to colors, font size and magnification that I can see best. I hate using programs that override these settings (including, incidentally the Office suite).

I tried downloading three add-ons, but they would not install as they are incompatible. I have now found one that installs and, although unfamiliar, seems to do the job.

I suspect, however, that I shall end up rolling back.