While teaching computer courses to senior citizens, one thing that consistently comes up is the size of the content being displayed on the screen. One area where this can be particularly aggravating for people with poor eyesight is the desktop, since it is often cluttered with all sorts of icons. Well, in Mac OS X, there is a very easy way to make the items on your desktop more visible:
- Right-click (or hold the “ctrl” key and click) on your desktop
- From the menu, select, “Show View Options”
- You will now see a small window with several options, the first of which being the size of your icons
- Simply move the slider to the right and your icons will immediately get larger
- You will also notice that you can change the spacing of the “grid” that your icons are on top of, as well as the size of the icon labels, the position of the labels, whether or not you want information about the file displayed (how large it is), whether or not you want a small preview of the file and finally, how you want the icons arranged.
Hopefully this will help those of you out there who have been wanting to make you icons easier to see, or those of you who just want a little more control over your desktop.
Filed under: Apple, Computers, Mac OS X, Technology | Tagged: Accessiblility, Desktop, Icons, Mac OS X
Great article! i like the idea of folks helping the Senior Citizens, i’m hoping there are more blogs, newsletters, ezines, websites, and reports out there.