Hi Jeanette, I have very poor vision (in fact I'm registered Blind in he UK) and use my iMac G5 20" every day mostly for reading mail and letters. I do use VO to navigate arond the screen but when reading letters or finding my way arond the screen the simplst solution is to use the built in ZOOM feature, COMMAND OPTION PLUS KEY to enlarge and COM OPT MINUS key to reduce.This enlarges the whole screen. As i move the mouse around the whole enlarged screen moves arond under the cursor.
There is also a feature in VO that enables you to enlarge the mouse cursor. Lastly any selected text can be made to speak out loud by pressing COMMAND OPTION K. Hope this is of some help. Mark --- Jeanette Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I support students with disabilities (technical > solutions). All our > schools use Macs but our Visually Impaired students > have been using > windows because they need to have access to ZoomText > and Jaws. > > I'd really like our students to be using MacBooks > and have been > playing... ok, so we have VoiceOver instead of Jaws. > Safari zooms > beautifully however, I'm stuck on zooming the whole > laptop screen > (poor resolutions for low vision students). I > installed Parallels and > WINXP and installed ZoomText, however that was a > total failure as the > Virtual Machine couldn't handle the redrawing > component. > > Did some exploring and found this article on > Wikipedia > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence > Sounds very promising if true! (anyone have any > inside info on this??) > So, in the meantime I need a solution for my low > vision students who > need to magnify the whole screen on the mac. > > Any help you can give me would be very much > appreciated. > > I'm also jumping in the deep end with DAISY > technology, could only > find one player for the Mac (KatiePlayer) however, > it doesn't play > DAISY 3 > > Thanks in advance, Jeanette > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Jeanette Davies > ICLT [Libraries / Inclusive Technologies] > Catholic Education Office, Wollongong > http://www.ceo.woll.catholic.edu.au/home/jdavies > > Ph: 0419994045 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >
