Q: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: Inverted screen ruins desktop text?!
My eyes are sensitive to light, yet just having the computer talk to me with VoiceOver isn't always necessary -- so I use the OS X accessibility option of inverting the screen colors.
This has worked great in the past because all the colors just reverse and it's nice and dark, perfect for browsing, where most pages are too white and bright to normally read comfortably. (Note that the 10.10 "dark mode" won't fit the bill for that little situation...)
But now with OS X 10.10 Yosemite, they've really messed things up!:
If I have an inverse background, I'm obviously going to turn the background color to something like a bright white (which inverses to black).
But if you do that, the Yosemite super special screen colors completely ruin everything!
• The text on the desktop icons become so subtle they are nearly unreadable.
(Seriously, who would put up with this?)
• The application switcher becomes almost impossible to discern the selected application to switch to.
(You have to find where the words appear and the slightly different icon backgrounds! SERIOUSLY! APPLE, don't you get it?? We're ALREADY having trouble seeing! >Many Bonks On Head!< )
Does anyone know of any way to fix the desktop text?? Seriously, this is a problem.
The app switcher is also a problem. If you know of a solution for that, please help.
This is such a pain! Oh man how annoying!
I want every developer in Apple to try working this way for at least a day.
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Any Mac running 10.10
Posted on Jan 14, 2015 12:00 AM