Thursday, November 19, 2009

MacOS Accessibility System Settings a lesson in stunning hideousness

So, I installed this nice tool which picks up on multi-touch gestures on my laptop's trackpad, for Apple trackpads are fancy and support multitouch. Now I can minimise windows simply through complex finger movements! Yay!

Anyway, this all works via pretending to be some sort of accessibility device, so to make it work at all one has to venture into the accessibility System Settings pane. Given that Apple is good at UI design, this will no doubt be a lovely, stunning-looking page, right?

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Eeeek!

But, okay, it's easy to read. That's good, I suppose... I'm sure that the other tabs will be easy to read, too, right?

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Er, no. What's going on here? Part of the pane is in huge text, part in normal. Maybe it's because the first one is the 'seeing' section; MacOS users may either have sight problems or have difficulty pressing more than one key at a time, but not both.

Well, anyway, I'm sure that the subsections of the 'seeing' tab are also easy to read, right?

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Argh! THIS MAKES NO SENSE. Stupid accessibility panel.
Posted by Robert Synnott at 1:02 AM
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2 comments:

  1. presumably once you have zoom switched on you should be able to read the other panels/subpanels ok...
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  2. You have one of the older version Macs don't you? Did someone finally release a driver update so that the older trackpads can do multitouch - I seem to remember that the hardware was there but just not the driver (and Apple would not release)
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