firefox failed downloads indication has poor visibility and accessibility

[B Bobo]

In firefox, when a download fails, the download window shows the failed download.
However, if there are many successful downloads and just one failed download, the download window has a long list showing just one line for the failed download among hundreds of similar looking lines of successful downloads. It is very hard to notice a failed download quickly.

The worst problem is the keyword "Failed" is in very pale grey against a pure white background - this is not a sensible choice of shading. Not everybody can see pale grey against white. Please think of people with visual disabilities! Even for people with normal vision, this should not be the default shading. Please make it higher contrast. For example, show the failed downloads in pure red text against a pure white background and show the successful downloads in pure black text against a pure white background.

This is affecting firefox 21 in Ubuntu LTS and development versions.

The example list below is obviously displayed in launchpad's own style, so it is clearer than firefox's, but even so, it suffers from being badly designed and has poor accessibility.

My-url31.html
78.1 KB - mysite1.com - 13:29

My-url32.html
37.1 KB - mysite2.com - 13:29

My-url33.html
42.5 KB - mysite3.com - 13:30

My-url34.html
Failed - mysite4.com - 13:31

My-url35.html
55.8 KB - mysite5.com - 13:32

My-url36.html
66.1 KB - mysite6.com - 13:33

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

B Bobo,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? If so then the issue would also need to be reported to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ as Ubuntu do not develop Firefox.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will close in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]