When I first started using a Mac, almost forty years ago, black was black and white was white. Text was easy to read.
But now I'm finding it increasingly difficult to read plain, straightforward text. OK, my sight has deteriorated, and some of my problem is definitely down
to that. But there seems to be a tendency - perhaps a fashion - to reduce contrast.
I went to accessibility/display/contrast but couldn't use it - I could barely see the slider bar, let alone the position of the slider. And changing the setting away from normal only seemed to make matters worse. As it moved towards maximum the slider bar disappeared completely!
Unfortunately it's not only the iMac screen. I have just renewed my car insurance (yes, I can still drive) and when I printed the certificate of insurance it was almost unreadable - grey on white.
And ever since I got this iMac with its Magic Keyboard, I have been vexed by the fact that the keys are labelled in grey, not black. I have to illuminate the keyboard to see what I am doing.
Is all this just me, or do others of you have a similar problem?
And can any of you suggest how to improve it? The keyboard, I admit, is beyond
help.
On 6 May 2024 at 16:19:41 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
But now I'm finding it increasingly difficult to read plain, straightforward text. OK, my sight has deteriorated, and some of my
problem is definitely down to that. But there seems to be a tendency - perhaps a fashion - to reduce contrast.
I went to accessibility/display/contrast but couldn't use it - I could barely see the slider bar, let alone the position of the slider. And changing the setting away from normal only seemed to make matters worse.
As it moved towards maximum the slider bar disappeared completely!
Unfortunately it's not only the iMac screen. I have just renewed my car insurance (yes, I can still drive) and when I printed the certificate of insurance it was almost unreadable - grey on white.
And ever since I got this iMac with its Magic Keyboard, I have been
vexed by the fact that the keys are labelled in grey, not black. I have
to illuminate the keyboard to see what I am doing.
Is all this just me, or do others of you have a similar problem?
And can any of you suggest how to improve it? The keyboard, I admit, is beyond help.
My eyesight has vastly improved since having cataract surgery. Could cataracts
be an issue here?
Having said that. I have found Acrobat 4 annoying because it prints
normal text in grey instead of black. (and this pre-dates my own
cataracts by a couple of decades).
On 6 May 2024 at 17:18:55 BST, "Liz Tuddenham" <Liz Tuddenham> wrote:
Having said that. I have found Acrobat 4 annoying because it prints
normal text in grey instead of black. (and this pre-dates my own
cataracts by a couple of decades).
The Kindle phone app annoys me intensely by having no fully-bright text
on black background options at all. A muddy yellow is as pale as it
goes. Not to mention the lack of zero-width margins and gutters. It's an
oled screen! Let me use all of it for text!
On 6 May 2024 at 16:19:41 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
When I first started using a Mac, almost forty years ago, black was black and
white was white. Text was easy to read.
But now I'm finding it increasingly difficult to read plain, straightforward >> text. OK, my sight has deteriorated, and some of my problem is definitely down
to that. But there seems to be a tendency - perhaps a fashion - to reduce
contrast.
I went to accessibility/display/contrast but couldn't use it - I could barely
see the slider bar, let alone the position of the slider. And changing the >> setting away from normal only seemed to make matters worse. As it moved
towards maximum the slider bar disappeared completely!
Unfortunately it's not only the iMac screen. I have just renewed my car
insurance (yes, I can still drive) and when I printed the certificate of
insurance it was almost unreadable - grey on white.
And ever since I got this iMac with its Magic Keyboard, I have been vexed by >> the fact that the keys are labelled in grey, not black. I have to illuminate >> the keyboard to see what I am doing.
Is all this just me, or do others of you have a similar problem?
And can any of you suggest how to improve it? The keyboard, I admit, is beyond
help.
My eyesight has vastly improved since having cataract surgery. Could cataracts
be an issue here?
I switch from time to time between the display default 2048 by 1152 and the larger 1680 by 945; it doesn't seem to make much difference. It would help, perhaps, if I could increase the system font size a bit, but if there is a way
of doing this I haven't found it yet.
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
On 7 May 2024 at 14:14:57 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
I do! I assumed it was meant to be.
On 7. May 2024 at 15:54:07 CEST, "Sara Merriman" <sara@sarlet.com> wrote:
On 7 May 2024 at 14:14:57 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
I do! I assumed it was meant to be.
I don´t. It´s all black over here.
On 7 May 2024 at 14:14:57 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
I do! I assumed it was meant to be.
On 7 May 2024 at 14:14:57 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
I do! I assumed it was meant to be.
On 7 May 2024 at 14:54:07 BST, "Sara Merriman" <sara@sarlet.com> wrote:
On 7 May 2024 at 14:14:57 BST, "Jaimie Vandenbergh"
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma
I do! I assumed it was meant to be.
Not if I can help it. Anyone know how to restore the time/date to all-black?
On 7 May 2024 at 08:40:18 BST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
I switch from time to time between the display default 2048 by 1152 and the >> larger 1680 by 945; it doesn't seem to make much difference. It would help, >> perhaps, if I could increase the system font size a bit, but if there is a way
of doing this I haven't found it yet.
The lower res option does actually increase all font sizes, but for more
you can look in Accessibility (in Sonoma it's Settings, Accessibility, Display; not sure on previous macOS) which has a pile of sliders and
toggles for sizes of text.
That Display Contrast slider is absolutely awful though isn't it! So
useless. On the other hand, I don't get grey date/time in the menu bar
in Sonoma so I'm not sure what that was about. Perhaps a non-Apple app
is providing the time there? I know some calendar apps and iStat Menus
can take that task over.
Are you fully into the builtin zoom, hold control and scroll in-out of
the screen? I use that all the time and not even due to bad eyesight as
such. Accessibility, Zoom to enable and configure.
Cheers - Jaimie
Thank you all for listening and trying to help.
On 07/05/2024 08:40, John Hill wrote:
Thank you all for listening and trying to help.
One small point I've not noticed anyone else mentioning, John.
In Safari, have you set the number to a higher value than the norm?
Here, you'll see I've set the font size to 14. https://i.ibb.co/cN6n7mt/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-08-54-17.png
It may just be of help to you.
David Brooks <david@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
On 07/05/2024 08:40, John Hill wrote:
Thank you all for listening and trying to help.
One small point I've not noticed anyone else mentioning, John.
In Safari, have you set the number to a higher value than the norm?
Here, you'll see I've set the font size to 14.
https://i.ibb.co/cN6n7mt/Screenshot-2024-05-08-at-08-54-17.png
It may just be of help to you.
Apps are considerably more flexible. But so far as I can tell the only way
of increasing the size of stuff that uses the system font or is otherwise fixed is to reduce the screen resolution.
And I don’t use Safari much on the iMac; I seem to have moved from Firefox to Arc. Have you tried that?
I've now done some MORE research!
Arc. Have you tried that?
On 08/05/2024 11:12, John Hill wrote:
Arc. Have you tried that?
Now available from the Apple App store!
Seems great! Thanks for the heads up!
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