I would love to put a copy on http://atmac.org/ when you are done,
with attribution of course. Or a link to yours if you put it up.
Extra things I can think of offhand:
- Explaining the control-shift-equals for expanding the text size in
lots of programs including Safari. You have to do it every time you
use the program, but it's useful for web pages because it expands the
text without usually making the page so big it goes off the sides of
the screen.
- You can edit the toolbar in many programs, specifically Safari and
Mail come to mind, to put the expand/reduce text size icons on the
menu bar.
- There are lots of keyboard shortcuts in the "Keyboard and Mouse"
section of the System Preferences that could be useful. Also check
out the "Speech" section as well as "Universal Access" that you
mentioned.
- If seeing things like the menu bar is a problem, you can play
around with the "Display" section in SysPref to lower the resolution
- you get less stuff on screen but it's all bigger. You can also set
it so it can be changed from the right side of the menu bar very
quickly.
- Check the "Speech" section of SysPref under the "Text to Speech"
tab about being able to highlight a section and press a defined key
to have it read out (only works in accessible applications I think,
so no MS Word), and also to have dialog boxes and the time
automatically announced.
Will bell you if I think of more!
r
On 18/09/2007, at 8:01 PM, Jeanette Davies wrote:
I'm putting together a document for teachers who find themselves
with a student in their class with a visual impairment - in other
words no special training in teaching students with a visual
impairment, but they can help these students by making the
student's MacBook more accessible (without purchasing any software,
just what comes with it (includes Microsoft Word as a school rollout)
r
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