Accessibility on a Mac, fixed in plain English.
30 fixes for macOS 26 Tahoe and macOS 27 Golden Gate.
Your Mac is talking: how to turn off VoiceOverVoiceOver, the built-in screen reader, is on.Make your Mac's mouse pointer bigger and easier to seeThe pointer is at its default size.Turn off transparency so Mac menus and windows look solidTahoe's Liquid Glass style makes windows, the Dock, and menus translucent.Make text bigger in Finder, Mail and other Mac appsSystem text is at its default size.Get the colors back when your Mac screen is grey or tintedA color filter such as Grayscale is turned on.Turn down the animations that make you dizzy on your MacAnimations such as space switching and window zooms can cause motion sickness or feel slow.Turn off inverted colours on your Mac's screenInvert colors is turned on, perhaps by an accessibility shortcut.Ease motion sickness on your MacBook with Vehicle Motion CuesVehicle Motion Cues shows moving dots at the screen edges to ease motion sickness on newer Mac laptops.Your Mac screen is zoomed in and won't go backThe Zoom accessibility feature is on and has been triggered by a keyboard shortcut or scrolling with a modifier key.Turn off Sticky Keys and stop it coming backPressing Shift five times turns on Sticky Keys, which holds modifier keys until the next key.Zoom in on your Mac screen with the keyboardZoom is an accessibility feature that is off until you enable it.Turn VoiceOver on or off on your MacVoiceOver is the Mac's built-in screen reader.Liquid Glass hard to read? Make menus and sidebars clearerLiquid Glass lets the background show through controls, lowering contrast.Change your Mac's pointer colour so it's easier to seeThe default black pointer with a white outline can blend into some backgrounds.Your Mac's pointer disappears on dark backgroundsThe black pointer has a thin white edge that's hard to see on dark wallpapers and dark mode.Make the menu bar and its icons bigger on your MacThe menu bar uses its standard size.Move the pointer with your keyboard, or turn Mouse Keys offMouse Keys lets the keyboard or number pad move the pointer.Stop GIFs and animated images from playing on their ownAnimated images play automatically unless you turn that off.Why your Mac dims video during flashing lights, and how to control it"Dim flashing lights" darkens content that shows flashes or strobes, on Apple silicon Macs.Stop the blinking text cursor on your MacThe text insertion point blinks by default.Have your Mac read any selected text aloudSpeak selection is off until you turn it on.Make your Mac's screen easier to see with Increase contrastTahoe's see-through design lowers contrast between controls and the background.Show icons next to window titles on your MacWindow title icons are hidden unless you turn them on.Your Mac's pointer gets huge when you shake the mouse"Shake mouse pointer to locate" briefly enlarges the pointer when you move quickly.Make your Mac flash the screen when an alert soundsThe Mac can flash the screen instead of or as well as playing an alert sound.Make Mouse Keys move the pointer at the right speedMouse Keys has its own speed settings.Use keyboard shortcuts one key at a time with Sticky KeysShortcuts like Command-C need two keys pressed together.Change your Mac's voice and how fast it talksSpeech uses the default system voice and rate.Stop folders opening when you drag files over themSpring-loading opens a folder when you hold a dragged item over it.Make toolbar buttons look like buttons on your MacModern toolbar buttons are plain icons until you hover over them.