Lowbrowse is a Firefox add-on that displays a magnified view of the selected text in the Firefox browser. The tool creates a magnified view window that fits between the address bar and the tabs of the browser. The font displayed in the magnified view is at least 40px in size.
While the concept of the tool sound simple enough, it seems the implementation of it has limited much of its abilities. From my experience with the tool, it enlarges a selection of text and most likely determines what text to enlarge based on text between HTML element tags, e.g. 'p' and '/p'. The major issue with this tool is that it doesn't not enhance text on a webpage line by line. Also, the magnified text displayed is limited to the amount able to fit in the magnified view. If a paragraph of text is placed inside of a 'p', '/p' HTML element, then the tool would only display the first 3-10 words depending on the length of each word. The rest of the text content is ignored. Furthermore, there are no customization or navigation options for this tool. Everything a user gets is exactly what is seen "out of the box". If there is a web page with a red background and green text, then this add-on would be completely useless to them. What would be better is if the user could customize the colour scheme of the magnified view.
Though this tool is extremely limited in terms of what a user will actually view, there is one potential feature that may prove to be helpful in future implementations. The tool's ability to fetch the text from HTML elements can be leveraged in some other way in which all the text will be displayed.
