Highlighting text in Find

Hello, while looking for text in a Mail message by doing Command-F the found text is highlighted in a faint grey box.  Is there a way to change the box color to make it easier to find on the page?  Thanks!

Install espeak and write this script:
sayit.sh
#!/bin/sh
espeak "`xsel -p -o`"
Put that in a folder in your $PATH and bind a key to it. It'll speak any highlighted text anywhere in your X11 environment.

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