Please help me from switching to Windows XP!!

I have recently been diagnosed as Dyslexic, and have been advised that Windows is preferable to OS X. The resons being that XP's apperance can be customised to any colour. A good expamle being the background screen colour of a word document can be changed easily on windows (view>background) whereas this option seems to be missing from Office 2004.

Is there any third party software that does this? OS X tiger diability options don't seem to consider dylexics and I really DO NOT WANT to buy a PC.

Are there any other dyslexic mac users who have found solutions?

I'd also hate to see you have to buy a PC.

I don't know how well these reasons suit you:
http://www.iansyst.co.uk/database/articles/whymac.html

When you refer to appearence, to you mean like a theme or changing the colours slightly to make things easier to see? I use Shapeshifter which enables you to download and install themes. It may make the menus and things easier to see for you.

Good luck.

Do you have any reliable data or studies to back up that claim, I taught special education and have doubts on that claim.

Here is a whole bunch of Mac software, maybe you can find what your looking for..
http://www.dyslexic.com/products.php?catid=1&subid=30&sectid=25

Desolate One said:

I'd also hate to see you have to buy a PC.

I don't know how well these reasons suit you:
http://www.iansyst.co.uk/database/articles/whymac.html

When you refer to appearence, to you mean like a theme or changing the colours slightly to make things easier to see? I use Shapeshifter which enables you to download and install themes. It may make the menus and things easier to see for you.

Good luck.

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i think they were talking about how you can change the color of explorer windows and in office you can change the color of the screen but not the document itself.

We used this apple program from the company
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/curriculumsolutions/assistive/lexend.html

Why not have the best of both worlds?

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?pid=virtualpc

That way you can keep your cherished Mac. You'd also be able to determine if, in fact, the Win XP interface really is better for you.