Ubuntu & dyslexia: up-to-date info?

[kalpana]

Hi all,

I've tried searching this before and only found really old posts so I was hoping for some up-to-date advice!

There's a few things I'd like to do (and a few things I ahve done) that I'm sure are pretty easy...

1. I'd like to be able to change the input boxes for everything (well, everything that is white..) to a different colour, like a system wide option. I did this by mistake once in Ubuntu 10.? and it was fantastic, but that was before unity  I really love unity so don't want to go back but would like to be able to change the box colours again!

2. When I was on ******* a looooooong time ago I used a program called T-Bar. It's very old and very small but perfect, basically added a transparent window (size optional) either to your mouse or drag-and-drop whatever colour you wanted to assist with reading. It was literally just a rectangle window that you could move around and read through which was great as an adult teacher who has to read through lots of black-on-white teaching plans..! Is there anything similar for Linux? I ahve tried running the program in Wine but with no luck  the website is: http://www.fx-software.co.uk/tbar.htm I am rebbush with coding except HTML so not much use at trying to figure out how to make it myself (I don't even know where to start...)

I know there's lots of text-to-speech and read aloud stuff, but this isn't always practical in a shared environment, being able to read through a filter colour and write on a filter colour would be really useful!!

thanks muchly!

N