The zoom in the system preferences is basically a magnifying glass that you move around the screen. The motion can cause dizziness.
If you mean a non included program, I don't know. I haven't bought any programs. April Brown Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide behind. On Feb 5, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Anouk Radix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi april, > I have not much knowledge about this but cant Zoom do the menu bar > magnification for you? > Greetings, Anouk, > On 05 Feb 2014, at 19:58, April <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not comparable. >> >> On the Mac there is no easy way to enlarge the menu or scrollbars. Icon >> text can be increased minimally. >> >> On the Mac, there seem to be two choices: >> >> 1. lower the resolution to magnify everything, or >> 2. use an on screen magnifier, and not be able to read menus without it. >> >> Many Mac programs have individual magnifiers for the text, though not the >> menu. >> >> >> On Windows, everything, including menus and scrollbars, can be magnified in >> the settings. Can't remember the name of the setting. As well as many >> programs that have individual magnifiers. >> >> Even so, I prefer the Mac, since I have to learn VoiceOver. >> >> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 1:50:15 PM UTC-5, Anouk wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> I have been a blind mac user for years now. Some friends of mine are still >> able to use magnification and some people ask me for advice because >> supernova is crashy or jfw and magic are crashy on their systems. >> Are there people that can give an account how magnification works on the >> mac and if it is comparable what you can get on a windows pc with >> screenreading software? >> Thanks in advance, >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/macvisionaries/TzX5kGwUsWw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
