Liz944 wrote:You cn set the colour of your computer screen by doing the following:
Using windows XP:
1) Click on the start button, and open up the control panel.
2) From here select appearance and themes.
3) From the appearance and themes window, select display.
4) From the tabs at the top of the display properties window, select appearance, and click on advanced. From the drop-down item menu select window. Then open up the colour 1 palette by clicking on the small arrow.
Setting the colour:
1) Open the colour window by clicking on the other button.
2) All that is left is to input your red, green and blue settings into the appropriate boxes.
e.g My RGB values are: Red 144
Green 173
Blue 173
As I have been tested I have been given these values. But for pink you are going to have to play around with these values to see what colour you are most happy with...
3) Next, click Add to Customs Colours, and click on OK. If you are running windows Xp, you will have to click OK on more time.
4) All that is left to do now is Apply these changes and click OK until you are back at the beginning.
Your computer should now be set-up ready for you to use.
Adjusting Internet Explorer
1) Set up the background colour of your PC as described above.
2) Open internet explorer.
3) From the menu bar across the top, select Tools.
4) Then select Internet Options.
5) In the Internet Options window that pops-up, click on the button labelled Accessibility...
6) This opens another window. In this window, make sure that the check box marked Ignore colours specified on web pages is checked.
7) Click Ok to get out of the Accessibility... window.
8) Click Ok to get out of the Iternet Opions... window.
You should now be ready to search the internet, reading from your optimal colour background.
Hope this helps....
thankyou very much for that really appreciate u giving that advice. jus done it and boy it defo makes a difference n doesnt hurt as much again thankyou ur a star
I find it most usefull as it takes the glare away.... When I was tested they said that you nhave to be tested in the summer and winter as the glare changes and you need a couple of readings to compensate for this...
Thanks for those suggestions, I'm trialling the idea idea. I'm using a rather lighter shade of blue at the moment but might try others too. The recommended colour looks not dissimilar to the colour range of of the forum. Does that make DA Dyslexic & Irlen's Syndrome friendly? (aside from the white text boxes when writing new messages)
I should mention the values I have been used are the values I find comfortable. Each persons optimum value is different - so if you have not been tested you will need to play around with the RGB settings to see what you find comfortable...
Personally I have serious usability issues with PHPBB that generally make me hate it. I've got a spare IPB license if you feel like converting... hehe.
It was bright sunlight today and I've been outside most of the day. I can't wait for my filters. Off to pick the new glasses tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get them in 3 or 4 weeks.
thanks for the tip, now set my pc settings to a sort of mustard/dirty sandy yellow!
and find that it is a lot easier to read things now!!
shame can't keep this forum the same, as quite liked the blue, but when you go to web-sites with white, then it does become more difficult to read! so shame there isn't a setting for just plain white backgrounds!!
There is software available you can use which has more options. I will try and find it again as I found it when I was first diagnosed. As I rember there is a free trial version with limited functionality and the full program is expensive.
The other option is to change the settings back to default just for the internet and only use it when you want.... though this method will be slightly time consuming...
Hi I've got maeres Irlen syndrome
I have software called ReadAble which allows you to set the colours more accuratly. I have to say that I can't get on with it myself cause I'm really not that computer literate and the person who was supposed to train me had never used the programme. I'm sure it's not that hard though probably just need to persist
I just want to point out - that I hope when they distribute these colour filters to people, they check for colourblindess. Not to bang an old drum, but I think I'd find using a colour filter next to impossible. It would only serve to add to my confusion.
Personally I have never been officially tested for coour blindness, though through my previous and current degree I have had to complete labs that have included tests for colour blindness so know I do not have the problem....
I got diagnosed with Meares-Irlen syndrome back in November last year. This went on to getting coloured lenses that I wear all the time, this has helped a lot with not only reading, but also things like flourescent lighting in shops. I can go into a shop now and not immediately want to throw up everywhere. I have rose tinted glasses, I must say life can get interesting through them...
i has the stage 1 screening for this on wednesday. at the end of it the guy gave me a blue-grey coloured overlay to try out. he said if i want to go onto stage 2 of the screening for coloured lenses, then let him know and he'll refer me to the irlen north west centre.
the cost of the assessment and the lenses is covered by my dsa. so i would only have to pay for some frames if they were required and i decided to get them. but i'm not sure whether to ask to be referred for the testing or not. i feel i should whist the dsa is paying the cost - (it says stage 1 was £95 and stage 2 + lenses would be £295, and this is my first+last year of getting dsa). but i dont think my problems arethat bad. -like i dont get any of the problems with words moving etc as some people do. i do get other problems but i think they are more/as much to do with the lighting (like especially in the library and generally being in uni) as with the colour of the paper.
i havent really tried the coloured overlay much yet - well i tried it at home, and it did seem usefull as in no headache etc. but then it made not much difference really when i tried it whilst wasting time in the library today. (but then again i was already having problems from just being in there - why they need every single light on when its broad daylight anyway is beyond me)
so anyway enough rambling i just wanted to ask - what is the assessment for if you need coloured glasses like, and do people who have them find they are actually usefull at all or not?
