Mark,
Here is something else that definitely may help you.
You can enable a high contrast mode for ITunes which changes the background
from black text on a white background, to the oppisit, having white on a
black background. I'm not talking about going into system prefs
accessibility, and inverting colors. This specifically is is a hidden
option of ITunes. And believe me. This is not exactly documented.
1. Make sure ITunes is completely closed, and not running.
2. Fire up Terminal.
3. Paste in this command exactly as shown below:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable -bool TRUE
Realize that this command might have wrapped on more than one line of text.
When you paste it, make sure it's all ran on one line. Also, be sure that
you keep all the capitalization the same as above, as yes, it is! case
sensitive.
Once you have this pasted in, hit enter. You should be then taken back to
your prompt.
OK, next hit command+Q to quit Terminal. Then, open up ITunes and look at
the difference.
If you don't like this, then again, make absolutely sure that ITunes isn't
running, open up Terminal, and do the same thing, only this time, paste in:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable -bool FALSE
Hit enter, then command+Q to quit Terminal.
Now open up ITunes, and you should be back where you were to start.
HTH.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:32 PM
Subject: A Quick Tip for Low Vision Users of iTunes 12.3 or Later
Hello Everyone,
I cannot remember if this subject has already been discussed, on list, but
just in case it has not:
Perhaps the following tip may benefit those using screen readers, also,
but
I discovered it because, as a screen magnifier user (in addition to my
screen reader and my beloved Braille display) I really dislike the new
Playlist view in iTunes 12.3 in which (1) the Playlist background color is
based on the album artwork and (2) each listing of a title in a Playlist
is
preceded by the song's artwork in the left-most column. Also, in the
default Playlist view, one cannot modify column headings, etc, as one
could
do in iTunes 11 and earlier.
Please note that the following is written with screen magnifier users in
mind, only.
1.
To disable the custom color feature, from the Edit menu, select
Preferences.
Next, simply uncheck the "Use Custom Colors" checkbox. The actual
checkbox
has a slightly longer label but it will be clear when you see it.
2.
In order to have your Playlists appear as they did in iTunes 11 and
earlier
(removing the artwork from the left-most column and enabling column
browser
customization:
A.
Select a Playlist in the left pane of iTunes.
B.
Near the upper-right corner of the display, just under the search box, you
will see a drop-down list box which will most likely be set to Playlist.
Simply change that to Songs. That's all there is to it. The Playlist
will
now appear as it did in iTunes 11 and earlier without any artwork. Be
certain not to confuse the upper-right drop-down list box with the button
labeled "Edit Playlist".
One more thing, you will have to perform step 2 for each playlist. As far
as I can tell, there is no way to change the default view for all the
playlist to display only the songs, at once. The good news is that iTunes
will remember the view for each Playlist.
As I researched this, I discovered that there are a great number of
sighted
people who are very unhappy that Apple has made it more difficult to
display
merely the songs in a Playlist. They have been sending Apple a lot of
negative feedback. I can only hope that Apple will listen.
Mark
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