On Nov 5, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Martin Pilkington wrote:
Hi Glenn,
I'm not sure how to get around the font issue, but I do have a
suggestion for the yellow-ish background. There is an application I
use called Shades (http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades) which
allows you to add a tint to your screen. This is mainly for allowing
your screen to go dimmer than OS X allows (essential for iMacs) but
the tint colour can be changed. If you change the colour to yellow
and set the tint brightness to its lowest then it puts a yellow tint
on the whole screen, making any white background appear yellow.
I suppose for fonts you could have your friend use VoiceOver and
magnify the VoiceOver cursor (shift-control-option } ).
I forwarded your suggestion. His reply:
Put it on the Air (the Mini is busy playing the Classical Physics
lectures)
and it seems to work as advertised except that it's very very
subtle. With
the brightness slider at minimum there is the tiniest, barely
discernable
hint of yellow. With the brightness control at max there is no
discernable
effect. He did say tint... Certainly the right direction, just not
nearly
enough. Hopefully it will do more on less exotic machines- but
prolly not
likely. They do have a button to request features- I'll try that if
it
behaves the same on the other boxen.
