plambert

Thanks, it's an excellent idea. I gave up on it, because in so many applications it is nearly unusable. The modifier keys are very limited... so I have text popping up constantly as I am typing keys with the modifiers. In text editors, yeesh, it's headache-inducing. But while that might be a workaround, it would still be nice for an app like Alfred to have a way to accommodate these differences in its audience, since it is such an effective tool to make a computer more usable for people with unique needs—whether due to physical or medical differences, or just different workflows or tasks to accomplish.

I like using Alfred, but it's incredibly frustrating trying to read through the preferences. I understand that there's a lot there, and limited space to put it. I understand that there are OS-level tools to help users with specific vision needs. But I'm in a horrible space between the two, where my vision is usually decent, but sometimes, for minutes or hours, it's not very good. You may know what it's like to have your hair in your eyes, and how it affects your vision. You might also have looked through the leaves of a plant or tree at something more distant, where one of your eyes could see any given spot, but seldom both. These are similar to the effect I usually have to some degree, along with a lot of glare/bleeding if there are areas of high contrast. I use the "control key and scroll to zoom" feature of the OS, and this works well for when I just need to read something quickly that's in tiny print, and my eyes aren't cooperating. But this is not convenient for long stretches of text, because of needing to constantly move the mouse. And it's also not convenient when I regularly need to move back to, say, a panel of icons, in order to switch panes. If the preferences panel for Alfred could have an option to show the text (ALL the text) in a larger font, it would be a huge aid to me, and make my life a lot easier. And that seems to be the point of the tool, I think. Now, how you could do this without it being a nightmare requiring a lot of different layouts, I don't know. But even an ugly view like the Ventura system preferences, with every preference in a long scrolling list. Sort of like the advanced config settings in some browsers. (Though maybe don't make the scroll bars and other UI elements a "secret" like Ventura's System Preferences does, but that's another complaint for a different company) Or even an export/import function to a text file format that includes comments describing each preference similar to the tooltips in the preferences UI. Then any text editor's font size could be increased/lowered as needed. I hope you have the chance to consider this, and it makes your list eventually. Thanks! Paul M Lambert