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.
Off to an encouraging start though- thanks!
--
Glenn English
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