How to Enable Hover Text in Catalina and Big Sur

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Learned about this feature the other day. Really is handy to use if you're running a 4 or 5K display at it''s native resolution. Just enable Hover Text in System Prefs and then hold down the command key with your mouse pointer over a line of text. Makes it super easy to read the text without magnifying anything else. Way better than the magnification features in Windows 10.

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Learned about this feature the other day. Really is handy to use if you're running a 4 or 5K display at it''s native resolution. Just enable Hover Text in System Prefs and then hold down the command key with your mouse pointer over a line of text. Makes it super easy to read the text without magnifying anything else. Way better than the magnification features in Windows 10.
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Cool.

I used to be the mentor for a registered blind woman at work and she had a Windows PC (not Windows 10) with all this expensive software just to do that, because she wasn't fully blind, just sight-impaired etc.

Way to go Apple.

 

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Here's some custom options:

For example, you can specify:

• The position of the window when you enter text. Click the “Text-entry location” pop-up menu, then choose a location. If you don’t want the window shown when you enter text, choose None.
• The keyboard key you press to activate Hover Text. Click the “Activation modifier” pop-up menu, then choose a key. To lock the window so it’s shown automatically when you move the pointer over an item, press the key three times (you can do this at any time when Hover Text is enabled). To unlock the window, press the key three times.
• The colours used for the text shown in the window and the window itself, and for when you enter text. Click Colours, then click the pop-up menus to choose a colour or to create a custom colour.

 

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Apple has updated their official Users Guide for new macOS users. Goes back only as far as 10.14

What’s in the menu bar on Mac?

On your Mac, the menu bar runs along the top of the screen. Use the items in the menu bar to check status, choose commands or perform tasks.

support.apple.com