Color Changes in Mac OS X for the Visually Impaired?

drdink asks: "I am an avid FreeBSD and Windows user. This semester for a class I'm having to use MacOS X for the first time, and I've also been pondering jumping into the Apple scene anyway. However, I am also visually impaired and I can't seem to find a way to do specific color theming in a way similar to Windows, KDE, and GNOME. I want to be able to say 'Text is white, backgrounds are black, but EVERYTHING ELSE is its normal color.' The only options I've found that are similar is using 'White on Black' in the Universal Access control panel. However, this results in me losing all display colors and my machine looking monochrome. I don't want to use a $2,000+ machine just to have no colors. Is there anybody out there who has actually managed to get Mac OS X to use the normal colors but have high contrast white on black dialog boxes? I am interested in the Apple platform, but I can't use it for useful things, if I have no color."

Solution

[karmavore]

There is a company that has a product that can produce any desired colours on any screen. I believe their name is Crayola.

Re:One idea

[drdink]

That'll be awesome for my Web Design class when I do stuff with Photoshop. I can see my website now.

Before entering this site, please make sure you invert your colors so my pictures appear with the proper colors. Thanks!

Re:Solution

[drdink]

I just checked. Crayola only supports a 120-color display with their Crayon product line. I think this is a far cry from the 32bpp I would expect from Aqua.

Re:Solution

[El]

Plus the screen update are really, really slow, thus making most FPS games intolerable.

Re:Solution

[karmavore]

I don't use a computer for FPS games. I use a flintlock.

Re:One idea

[gbooker]

Now I have a great prank to play on friends... I wonder how long it will take them to figure out how to fix it :)

you want white on black text?

[slart42]

Simple: Log in as ">console" (without the "")
colors should be preserved ok, where they are used.