Hi Richard, Could you point us to the "Magnify" utility download/page and say what version of Windows are you using?
Thanks, Carlos. 2008/3/10, Richard Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All, > > I've been using GNOME for almost 10 years now. In 2003 I became legally > blind (visually impaired). Since that time I have had to use a > combination of tricks to allow me to see the screen well enough to use > it. These "tricks" have included low resolution display setting, large > monitors, extremely large font sizing and the use of a hand held magnifier. > > I've read through some of the discussions on this mailing list and it > looks like the team members have some ambitious goals. I truly hope > that these goals can and will be met. However, as a visually impaired > GNOME user I know what would make GNOME much easier to use that I don't > believe is nearly as ambitious. Microsoft introduced a feature with > their mice a few years back that has solved my problem entirely on a > Windows machine (which ironically is not as easy to setup for the > visually impaired as GNOME). It's called "Magnify". Unlike Logitech's > "Zoom" feature, which is little more than a button mapping to the text > sizing function of applications such as Mozilla, "Magnify" actually pops > up a magnification window around that mouse cursor. This window can be > adjusted for size and magnification level by simple mouse controls. > What this does for me and the other people that I have introduced to > this, is it allows me to not have to change all my display and font > settings and more importantly I no longer have to hold a magnifier in > one hand while trying to use the computer with my other hand. > > I'm not sure what the effort level would be for this kind of task. I do > know however that this feature has been the most useful feature to me > (as a visually impaired person) since the introduction of the mouse > itself. This may be a simpler solution that would solve the same issues > that you are currently wrestling with. It's application independent and > it's extremely flexible to the user. > > > Richard Powell > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > -- ######## / * ## ##### ### O O ### / ####### | | _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
