Your friend can customize her desktop background. Not sure whether or not she can customize the Font color. Command option F5 will take you to the accessibility menu where toward the bottom of that menu is an invert colors checkbox. I personally like that feature they recently implemented given the fact that I am low vision, therefore prefer reversed contrast. However if I choose to look at a picture of some sort, I want to be able to reverse the colors in order that the picture is the way it was supposed to be. The key combination is an easy way to get in and out of the accessibility menu without having to go into the voiceover utility etc.
Pam Francis On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:12 PM, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: >From memory colour profiles are a tab under display in system preferences. It is difficult for me to comment with authority as I have not really seen this for years but I thought the whole point of the invert colours feature on the Mac was to provide white on black. So essentially you need a colour profile which delivers black on white text and simply use invert colours. Remember you can also crank up the contrast and brightness as well in Accessibility and system settings. Of course Zoom is also available. However perhaps I should leave this to someone who is a low vision user on the Mac as they will know more. . > On 9 Feb 2015, at 00:00, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am all too familiar with those issues in Windows. What she really needs is > white on black. If she can find that, the rest she can tweak. > > Are there sources for downloading custom color profiles? > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > [email protected] > >> On 2/8/2015 3:35 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> I am not a low vision user but I think that there will be a relative lack of >> customisation in relation to colour schemes across the Mac OS compared to >> Windows. >> >> You can customise the size of the Fonts by bringing up the view options >> window in finder with command J. >> >> There are a set of colour profiles in system preferences but as I have no >> sight I cannot comment on these >> When this issue was discussed before I suggested people contact Apple >> Accessibility with their requirements. Suitable Colour Profiles may then be >> include in future OS. It is unlikely that Apple will ever provide the level >> of customisation that Windows provides, especially as this often on the >> Windows platform is a contributory factor in instability. Jaws for example >> used to be famously intolerant of the High contrast scheme. >> The trade off in the mac is stability against relative lack of customisation. >> >> An expensive alternative is apparently Zoomtext which can provide some level >> of colour customisation. >> >> David Griffith >>> On 8 Feb 2015, at 23:22, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am writing on behalf of a friend who is using a Mac, no idea what model. >>> She is very low vision, deaf and no braille. >>> >>> She needs to change the Color schemes but it appears that here Apple falls >>> behind Microsoft. There seems np ability to change colors, just Invert >>> Colors and that is dreadful for it mucks up colors so badly its useless for >>> her. >>> >>> Windows offers high contrast schemes, black on white and white on black, >>> in which one can tweak many things like fonts, sizes etc. >>> >>> Is there anything like this for OS X? >>> >>> From The Believer. . . >>> . . . what if it were true? >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
