Mac|Life

Make Big Sur more accessible

Right the accessibil­ity wrongs in macOS and make it even easier to use

-

REQUIRES

macOS 11 Big Sur or later

YOU WILL LEARN

How to make macOS Big Sur easier to use if you have visual impairment­s

IT WILL TAKE

5 minutes

APPLE’S MACOS BIG Sur is an enormous overhaul of the Mac operating system, with an entirely new look and feel compared to older versions.

Not every change has been welcome, though. Apple’s new design includes an awful lot of transparen­t, low–contrast elements that, while pretty — make using the system harder for anyone with eyesight trouble. Throw in small text and plenty of moving elements that can cause motion sickness, and you have a potential accessibil­ity nightmare. If you find Big Sur means big problems for accessibil­ity, there is help at hand… Apple has a range of features that can alleviate the most troubling problems in its operating system, thanks to an extensive list of accessibil­ity tools (like VoiceOver) housed in System Preference­s.

In this tutorial, we will focus on the ways you can make macOS Big Sur’s visual elements more accessible, from increasing text sizes to enabling color filters and more. ALEX BLAKE

 ??  ??
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Australia