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How to Use the Visual and Color Accessibility Feature on Mac

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Blanche Harris

People that are struggling with colour blindness or certain sensitivities they can try out the accessibility features in Mac. The accessibility features on Mac can improve the user experience and can help the user in several possible ways. If you’re struggling with the same physical disabilities, then the contrast, invert colours and a few more features can help you out. So here’s how you can access the Visual and Color Accessibility feature on Mac.

How to Enable Invert Colors

  • Press on the Apple menu.
  • Tap on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Press the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Mark on the Invert colours option.

How to Switch to Grayscale

  • Press on the Apple menu.
  • Tap on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Press the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Press the Color Filters box.
  • Mark on the Enable Color Filters box.
  • In the pull-down menu, select Grayscale.

How to Use Shapes to Differentiate Few Settings

  • Press on the Apple menu.
  • Tap on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Press the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Mark on the Differentiate without color box.

How to Reduce Motion

For macOS Sierra, reducing motion is something new that can make the animations subtle. If you activate reduce motion, you’ll see tabs jump instead of slide.

  • Tap on the Apple menu.
  • Press on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Press the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Mark on the Reduce motion box.

How to Increase Contrast

If you wish to see the text and other elements on your Mac more clearly, you better increase contrast. Here’s how to do it:

  • Tap on the Apple menu.
  • Press on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Tap the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Mark on the Increase contrast box.

How to Reduce Transparency

  • Press on the Apple menu.
  • Tap on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Press the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Mark on the Reduce transparency box.

Reducing transparency in your macOS will show the apps icons and dock stand out. You’ll be able to see app icons, files and items more clearly.

How to Change Display Contrast

  • Tap on the Apple menu.
  • Press on System Preferences.
  • Choose the Accessibility icon.
  • Tap the Display option under the Accessibility overview tab.
  • Next to the Display contrast, use the slider to increase and decrease.

Follow all these steps correctly to enable and disable your preferred accessibility settings.

Conclusion 

Accessibility settings in Mac allow physically disabled users that can’t touch or hear to experience and get familiar with their device. All the features and steps that are mentioned above will help users in several ways. Apple has always focused on its apps like Siri and FaceTime on apps like VoiceOver, AssistiveTouch and Guided Access.

Blanche Harris is active in creative writing for years. His engaging and informative blogs and articles can be seen in various popular websites, e-magazine, and blogs. He also covers technical aspects of blogs and content related to webroot.com/safe to enhance users’ experience.

Source: https://blanchektechnologyhub.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/how-to-use-the-visual-and-color-accessibility-feature-on-mac/

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