Feb 23, 2018  Part 1. How To Change Your Mouse Cursor Size and Color on Mac Mac allows easy changing the mouse cursor size and color. Though, you can only change the contrast, grayscale, transparency, and inverting screen color so that the cursor becomes more noticeable rather than changing cursor's color. But you can change cursor size. Mac allows you. Mar 06, 2015  How to Change the cursor size in Mac OS X Yosemite mac change cursor size,mac how to change cursor,change the cursor size Mac OS X,Customize Cursors on OS X,Change a Mouse Pointer Size. Changing the size of your mouse cursor is easy and fairly fast, with no other apps required. But you will need a special app if you want to change the color of your cursor. Let’s learn more about these two options. Why You Might Want To Change Your Cursor Size On Your Mac And How To Do It.

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Here 5 ways to make the cursor on your mac's screen and your clicks more visible. This is handy for giving presentations or recording screen tutorials. You can use some built-in methods, or get third-part software with lots of extra functionality like the ability to show key presses.

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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today let me show you five ways to emphasize your cursor and mouse clicks while doing live presentations or screen recordings.MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 600 supporters. Go to MacMost.com/patreon. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts.So I'm often asked about how I get my cursor to be more visible on the screen and to show mouse clicks in my videos. Even if you don't to tutorials, like I do, but do live presentations it's a good idea to make the cursor more noticeable so people can see where it is and also to show on the screen when you click the mouse. It's also handy, sometimes, to have key presses shown on the screen as well. Let's take a look at a variety of different ways to do this.First let's look at something you can do without adding any additional software. If you go into System Preferences and then to Accessibility look for Display. Now you would think that you would go to Pointer Control to change the size of the cursor. But actually under Display there's a Tab here for Cursor and you could increase the cursor size. You can see how much larger I can make it. This alone makes the cursor so much more visible for presentations. But also just for using it yourself if you find the normal size sometimes gets lost.Now if you need to show clicks while screen recording you can do this using the default screen recording built into your Mac. Use Shift Command 5 and then switch to Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion. Then click Options and make sure you have Show Mouse Clicks selected. Now when you record mouse clicks will show up. I'm going to click in a couple of different locations here. You don't see it while you're recording. But when I stop recording and then look at the result here you'll see those clicks. They appear as circles whenever you click.So next let's look at some third party apps that add a lot of functionality. One that's been around for a long time from a well known Mac developer is Mousepose by Boinx Software. So this is a subscription for $10 a year. It does have a free trial. So once you've granted it the proper permissions you could do a whole bunch of different things here. For instance the default, when activated, is to actually highlight the area and dim everything else. You can control the circle radius, the blur, the opacity, and how it animates when you turn it on and off. Then you can record a shortcut so that you can turn it on when you need and turn it off when you don't. You can also go in and do things with different mouse clicks as well. So you can activate this and every time I click you can see I get a little red dot. I can customize that to look all sorts of different ways.Mousepose also will show key strokes on the screen. So when you do something like I can hold the Shift key down there, for instance, the Command key and you can see those. Press the spacebar and you can that. So it's really useful for live presentations getting all that information up there on the screen.Now if you want to go with an app that's in the Mac App Store you can look for Presentation Assistant. It costs $3.00. So when you run it you can see here I get a highlight around the cursor. You can change that by going to Mouse Pointer here. You can change it to Ring, Spotlight which dims the rest of the screen, or disk which doesn't. You can change the size for any of these, and the opacity, blur, the color. You can record a shortcut to turn this on. For mouse clicks you can also set some things like, you know, exactly what color is used here for the click. You can see it's a nice circle effect when I click on the screen. You can even have a different color for a two finger or right click on a mouse. You can easily control it up here to turn it on or off.So I know I'm going to be asked what I actually do. How do I get my cursor movements, clicks, and key presses shown in my videos. Well, actually I don't use any of those techniques. Instead I use professional screen recording software, ScreenFlow, to record everything. When it does it records everything just as I see it. But it remembers the position of the cursor. It remembers all the clicks and all the key presses. So in editing I can change those. So, for instance, here's the screen recording. I can flip through that and maybe you can see the cursor there. It's pretty small because it's the regular size. But I can go and change the pointer zoom and actually make the cursor bigger. So now you could see it's the same recording but the cursor size is different. So I have control over that in editing, not while recording. I can also change the click effect, to say a radar effect, and you could see the clicks there. Or inverting the cursor. I can also change to have an attention effect here. So here's a circle, basically, that follows the cursor. I could change all sorts of things about that. I can show keystrokes so that here's some keystrokes and you can see the keys there pressed at the bottom of the screen. You could even add a sound for each click. So a lot that you can do if using professional screen recording software. Even some inexpensive screen recording software will allow you to do various different things with the cursor.The big advantage to this is that the recording is actually of the screen. Exactly as I see it. I can alter all of this while editing. In fact I can even have it change different parts. So some parts I can have clicks shown and other parts maybe not. Some parts can have key presses shown and other parts not. Nothing is permanently imbedded in the screen recording. It's only when I export that it's actually printed onto the video.These aren't the only ways to do this. You'll find more apps in and out of the Mac App Store. You'll find different options in different screen recording software. Of course if you're doing screen recording and editing your video afterwards you can use all sorts of different techniques for highlighting things on the screen including where the cursor is located and what you're clicking on.

Every Mac is built with assistive technologies to support people who are blind or have low vision. The VoiceOver screen reader describes exactly what’s happening on your screen. Hover Text lets you instantly magnify a selection of text. And Display Accommodations support color blindness and other vision needs.

Hover TextGet a quick size boost of what you’re reading.

Hover Text makes it easier to view text on your display. If a paragraph, caption, or headline is too small to read, just hover over it with your cursor and press Command. You’ll get a dedicated window with a large, high-resolution version of your selection. You can even choose the fonts and colors that work best for you.

VoiceOverHear what’s happening on your screen.

VoiceOver does more than tell you what’s happening on your Mac. It helps you make things happen. It gives you auditory descriptions of each onscreen element and provides helpful hints along the way — whether you prefer using gestures, a keyboard, or a braille display. And it supports more than 35 languages, including multiple voice options.

VoiceOverIntegrated throughout macOS and every built-in app.

VoiceOver is unique because it’s not a standalone screen reader. It’s deeply integrated in macOS and all the built-in apps on Mac. And as developers update their apps to take advantage of the accessibility interfaces provided by Apple, their apps can start working with VoiceOver right away.

VoiceOverImproved PDF, web, and messages navigation.

We’ve refined VoiceOver to make it easier to navigate PDFs, websites, and messages. In Safari, improved conformance with HTML5 accessibility standards allows for more consistent navigation of websites. VoiceOver is now better at reading aloud tagged PDFs and email messages. If you start reading a website in a different language, VoiceOver can switch to the voice for that language automatically.¹ And you can add custom commands and workflows to your MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

Audio DescriptionsHear the details in every scene.

Watch movies with detailed audio descriptions of every scene on your Mac. Movies with audio descriptions are displayed with the AD icon in the iTunes Store.

VoiceOverNavigate VoiceOver with simple gestures.

You can control VoiceOver using many of the same gestures you use with iOS. Touch the trackpad to hear a description of the item under your finger, drag to hear items continuously, and flick to move to the next item. Enable the VoiceOver Trackpad Commander, and the trackpad surface will represent the current window or document, so you can navigate quickly to any corner or edge with a tap.

VoiceOverA virtual controller with customizable commands.

VoiceOver features a virtual control called the rotor. Turning the rotor — by rotating two fingers on the trackpad as if you were turning an actual dial — lets you access an array of fully customizable commands. Use it to browse web pages more efficiently and intuitively. The rotor lists common elements like “headings,” “links,” and “images,” and lets you navigate directly to the element of your choosing.

VoiceOverPlug-and-play support for braille displays.

VoiceOver is the first screen reader to provide plug-and-play support for refreshable braille displays. Plug in or sync one of over 100 compatible displays, supporting more than 80 international tables, and the VoiceOver description is presented to you in braille. You can edit seamlessly in Grade 2 Braille, viewing your edits in the context of the actual line of text. Optimized for fast braille typists, VoiceOver makes working in braille easy and efficient. Converting between braille and text happens automatically so you see only Grade 2 Braille. And for sighted users who sit alongside you, there’s an onscreen braille panel that displays both braille and plain-text versions of the descriptions spoken by VoiceOver.

Dark ModeWorking hard gets easier on the eyes.

Dark Mode transforms the desktop and built-in apps with a dark color scheme that helps you focus on your work.² The fine points of your content take center screen as toolbars and menus recede into the background. Light text against darker backdrops in Mail, Safari Reader, Calendar, and more makes everything easier to read in low lighting conditions. And the Accessibility preferences for increased contrast and reduced transparency work with Dark Mode enabled.

DictationYou say it. Mac types it.

Dictation lets you talk where you would type — and it works in over 40 languages. So you can reply to an email, search the web, or write a report using just your voice. Navigate to any text field, activate Dictation, then say what you want to write. macOS also comes with more than 50 editing and formatting commands. So you can turn on Dictation and tell your Mac to bold a paragraph, delete a sentence, or replace a word. You can also use Automator workflows to create your own Dictation commands.

SiriStreamline the things you do every day.

Siri helps you do more with your desktop.³ Ask Siri to send messages, track down files, create reminders, search the web, and even turn on and off VoiceOver and Invert Colors, without interrupting what you’re doing on the keyboard. And because Siri is integrated with VoiceOver, you can ask it to find a file and hear the answer read out loud. If you prefer to communicate by typing, you can easily set Siri to “Type to Siri” mode.

ZoomMake your screen up to 20 times bigger.

Zoom is a powerful built-in magnifier that lets you enlarge your screen up to 20 times, so you can better see what’s on the display. You can zoom using full screen or picture-in-picture, allowing you to see the zoomed area in a separate window while keeping the rest of the screen at its native size. A shortcut key lets you pan the screen without moving the pointer while zoomed in. macOS can also flash the screen for notifications offscreen or speak text under your pointer. The hardware acceleration engine lets you boost the size of anything on your screen — text on a web page, family photos, or a place on a map.

Zoom DisplaySee content up close and at a distance simultaneously.

Now with macOS Catalina, if you have two displays, you can keep one zoomed in close while the other stays at a standard resolution. So you can tackle everyday work or give a presentation more efficiently.

Cursor SizeMagnify your cursor so it’s easier to use.

macOS lets you magnify your cursor so it’s easier to see where you are and follow along as you move around your Mac. Set the cursor size once and it stays magnified even when its shape changes. And when you swipe back and forth on your trackpad or quickly shake your mouse, the pointer grows so it’s easier to locate.

Contrast and Color OptionsInvert colors or enable color filters.

macOS lets you invert colors, enable grayscale, or choose from a range of color filters to support different forms of color blindness or other color vision deficiencies. You can select a common preset or fine-tune the color tint and hue to customize a display setting that works for you.

Reduce MotionDecrease the movement of onscreen elements.

If you’re affected by the motion of screen elements, you can turn on Reduce Motion to decrease movement in areas like Spaces, Notification Center, and the Dock.

Music, Podcasts, Books and TVNavigate and play with VoiceOver.

The Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, and Apple TV apps are compatible with VoiceOver, so you can navigate and play all your content even if you can’t see the screen. Browse the apps as VoiceOver reads out headers, links, and other elements on the page.

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