I am looking for any ideas to help students with poor eyesight to access the computer. I am aware of stick on’s for the keyboard, and the options under ‘accesibility’ in Windows. Is there anything else I can do to help, any specialist software or hardware available or contacts I can find out more from?
Eileen Moore
Eileen Moore
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Accessability
I have come across this as well and now have a 21 inch monitor and installed ZoomText (software that magnifies the screen area)
We now have delegates who can participate as usual.
Hope this helps.
Computer access – visually impaired
AbilityNet has some excellent Skillsheets and Factsheets at
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/content/home.htm
including Using a Computer with a Vision Impairment.
Also try http://tinyurl.com/5vau
Text magnification
Software such as MouseCam magnifies anything under the cursor up to 20 times normal size. Particularly useful for reading web pages which use small fonts.
See http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Useful.html