Hi David, would you mind sending your observations, regarding your experience to accessibil...@apple.com... To excuse a bad pun, this appears to be a blind spot for them, and your commentary won't help your good self, but may be useful for future revisions and different approaches to low-vision use.
Cheers, Kaare. On 2010-10-11, at 7:45 AM, David Goodwin wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a brief update on my switch. > > After spending the past day and a half tweaking and testing every display and > accessibility setting that I could find, I had to admit defeat this morning > and return the Mac Mini to the store. > > The problem is that the white on black feature simply doesn't do what its > name suggests it should. Tweaking of the greyscale and contrast settings > failed to help. At best it left too many dark on light elements on the > screen, at worst it caused the text to go quite blurry (particularly when > trying to use the zoom feature). > > I am sure that I will revisit the Mac option when my sight reaches a level > where a screen reader is the only option, but for now I shall be sticking > with my PC. > > I guess I might also revisit the idea of getting a Mac if Apple realize that > colour conversion is not the same as white on black. > > It's been a rather frustrating and disappointing few days, but thanks to all > those who have offered support and suggestions. > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
