Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-22 Thread Terje Strømberg
My understanding of thread starter is that he/she want to increase the font size of the letters in the menu. Neither of Zooms or ZoomText do that. The font size is the same, but they enlarge the menu by zooming in and out i.e. zooming in makes the menu letters look larger, but then you can`t see

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Blouch
OSX has a general screen magnifier. Turn it on in the System Preferences under Accessibility and then Zoom. Usual thing is to hold down control and do a two-finger stroke up and down to increase/decrease zoom on a trackpad or control+roller-wheel on a mouse with one of those. There are a bunch

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I am too a VO user. But what I heard from others that zoom does not do largeing menues. But if you get zXoomtext that will do the trick. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 21,

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-21 Thread Jim Gatteys
from what he says it just enlarges the text he is working with but not the menus. Thanks, Jim On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I've not played with it, as I'm a Voiceover user as well, but what > about Zoom? I believe you can configure what it enlarges and when, and > control th

Re: Enlarging menus

2014-01-20 Thread Alex Hall
I've not played with it, as I'm a Voiceover user as well, but what about Zoom? I believe you can configure what it enlarges and when, and control the zoom level on the fly. Have a look: System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom. On 1/20/14, Jim Gatteys wrote: > Hi all! > A friend of mine has a m

Enlarging menus

2014-01-20 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi all! A friend of mine has a mac and is slowly loosing vision. He has figured out how to make the text larger but not the menus and icons. Is there a way to do this? I'm strictly a voiceover user and not sure what to tell him. Thanks in advance. Jim -- You received this message because yo