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Color Changes in Mac OS X for the Visually Impaired?
drdink asks: "I am an avid FreeBSD and Windows user. This semester for a class I'm having to use MacOS X for the first time, and I've also been pondering jumping into the Apple scene anyway. However, I am also visually impaired and I can't seem to find a way to do specific color theming in a way similar to Windows, KDE, and GNOME. I want to be able to say 'Text is white, backgrounds are black, but EVERYTHING ELSE is its normal color.' The only options I've found that are similar is using 'White on Black' in the Universal Access control panel. However, this results in me losing all display colors and my machine looking monochrome. I don't want to use a $2,000+ machine just to have no colors. Is there anybody out there who has actually managed to get Mac OS X to use the normal colors but have high contrast white on black dialog boxes? I am interested in the Apple platform, but I can't use it for useful things, if I have no color."
You sound like a repressed gay blue collar worker. Get me some coffee and shine my shoes. Here's your $2.
I am also visual impaired and I use Mac OS X everyday. My solution was to visit Apple's Mac OS X downloads page and loctae an Aquq toolkit to tweak the Aqua interface to one that allows me to see correctly.
"I'm visually impared, yet I want the full visual flourish of a Mac OSX system because it costs $2000.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
So what's new? Apple is always copying Microsoft's innovations three years late, while adding minor improvements...
we're talking about macs here, when the hell could you play an fps on a mac without a box of crayolas?