iPad Tutorial Of The Day – White on Black – 06/14/10
Some people find the contrast and colors too difficult to see clearly on the default settings of the iPad. It is possible to change them and to make the existing white background screen black and the default black text to white. This changes everything on your iPad so some apps almost appear in a ‘negative format’. This tutorial will demonstrate how easy it is to change the settings and also to compare the difference between the two.
Settings
Firstly you need to select Settings from the main menu.
General
Then select Accessibility. In the top right column you will see the third option down displaying ‘White on Black’ – move the slider to the On position.
In the top right column you will see the third option down displaying ‘White on Black’ – move the slider to the On position. The background will turn black and the text will change to white.
Default Screen
This is how the BBC News site looks without the White on Black selection on.
White on Black
This is how it looks when you have selected White on Black.
With Default Colors
White On Black
If you want to change the settings back again, just move the slider on the White On Black Setting to Off.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
