Turn on magnification with Command+option+8. Once mag is on, Increase and decrease magnification with command+option+ equals sign (=), and minus sign (-) respectively. First, make sure magnification (zoom) is enabled in accessibility options in system preferences. There are setting there for how the screen reacts to mouse and cursor movement etc. On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Eleanor Burke <eleanorbu...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> OK thanks for that but can you tell me how to bring up the magnification on > Mac, how to increase and decrease it. Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haghighi,Amin" <haghi...@oclc.org> > To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 1:18 PM > Subject: Re: Magnification with Mac > > > I use zoom text on MAC. > I don’t like the one comes with mac. > If I where you I would buy it. > The zoom text on mac the magnification is more clea then the one comes with > mac. > > On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Eleanor Burke <eleanorbu...@btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> Why then is Zoomtext an option if not better? >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "richie Gardenhire" >> <richie.gardenh...@gmail.com> >> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:14 AM >> Subject: Re: Magnification with Mac >> >> >>> Hi Eleanor, Zoomtext is a Windows-based screenreader. There is, however, a >>> magnification feature in Voiceover that has a range of magnification every >>> bit as wide as Zoomtext. >>> >>> Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. >>> >>> >>> On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Eleanor Burke wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone on this list using Zoomtext on their Mac? I am interested in >>>> obtaining a copy and running it in Demo mode but would like to find out >>>> first how people find it. 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