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Specifying Contrast Settings


You may find it easier to see the site pages by changing the color scheme. Some users find it easier to see light text on a dark background or dark text on a light background or the page in grayscale.

You can choose your contrast scheme from the operating system’s settings.

Operating System
How to change your contrast scheme
Windows XP Professional
  1. From your Control Panel select Accessibility Options
  2. From the Display tab turn on “Use High Contrast”
  3. Go to the Settings and select the contrast scheme
  4. For black text on a light background try the “High Contrast Black”.
  5. For white text on a dark background try the “High Contrast White”.

You can try different contrast schemes until you find the one that helps you most. Note that although this is a useful tool, it is limited and you may find that commercially available software such as ZoomText provides better contrast functionality.
Mac OS X
  1. From the Apple Menu select System Preferences
  2. From System Preferences select Universal Access
  3. Select the Seeing tab
  4. For black text on light background select “Black on White” from Display options
  5. For white text on a dark background select “White on Black” from Display options
  6. To change the contrast try a different contrast setting

If you find seeing in grayscale more helpful, you can change your display setting on your Mac operating system to grayscale. On Windows, you will need to use additional software to see the site pages in grayscale.

Operating System
How to see in grayscale
Windows
Contrast-Analyser
 
  1. Download the free software from Paciello Group

http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrast-analyser.html

  1. Go to Image and then Screen option
  2. From the Simulation pulldown, select grayscale

A limitation with this software is that it does the show the entire page in grayscale and you cannot interact with the site in the grayscale view.

Vision Australia Browser Toolbar for Internet Explorer

  1. Download the free software from Vision Australia http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1569
  2. Open your browser and go to the site page and select grayscale from the Color option

A limitation with this software is you need to do this action for each site page you visit.
Mac
  1. From the Apple Menu select System Preferences
  2. From System Preferences select Universal Access
  3. Select the Seeing tab
  4. Select “Use grayscale” from the Display options
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