by: Jamie Cuevas
The Liquid Glass interface of macOS Tahoe 26 can provide some accessibility and legibility challenges for some Mac users, and one of the recurring complaints is the heavy usage of transparency and translucency can lead to text overlapping other text throughout the operating system. Whether it’s a sidebar, menu, messages, or window, having text atop text is never a great user experience and is always difficult to read, and since it happens with regularity on the Mac now thanks to the new Liquid Glass appearance, it’s a good thing to address specifically.
If you have already read our guide on reducing Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe then you likely won’t be experiencing the overlapping text problems as you’ve already made an appropriate settings change, so this article isn’t for you. This is for the Mac users who have updated to Tahoe and now find legibility to be challenging due to text being overlaid atop other text throughout the operating system. And, once again, a buried Accessibility setting called “Reduce Transparency” will come to the rescue here to make the user interface more usable on the Mac by preventing text from overlapping.
