Supersize Your Computer Vision:
Improving Your Text Size and Sight
Presented by Ed Black
June 20, 2007
First: run ‘system restore’
(All Programs/Accessories/System Tools)
or
export/save complete registry
(Start/RUN/regedit/File/Export/All)
A: DISPLAY:
1. Screen resolution.
Settings/ Screen Resolution. /Color quality
2. Desktop (Backgrounds) Select one.
3. Appearance. Font size.
4. Advanced. Item. Scroll down from ‘desktop’ to icon. This lets you set size of desktop icons.
5. Mousing around. Control Panel. (Printers &
Other... – Mouse) (Pointers. Pointer Options)
B: EQUIPMENT
6. Optical prescription check
7. Computer glasses.
8. Bigger monitor
9. Notepad auxiliary monitor.
10. Better keyboard. Sources. Low vision clinic.
C. PROGRAMS
11. Clean up Internet home page.
12. Changing Internet Explorer text size (version
7).
‘Page’: Zoom. Text Size.
13.Change Outlook Express text size.
(i)‘View’ Text Size.
(ii) ‘Options’ Read. Fonts.
14. Mozilla Firefox.
‘View – Text Size’ or ‘Control++’
15. Mozilla Thunderbird.
‘View – Text Size’ or ‘Control++’
16. Changing programme text defaults
D: SOFTWARE
17. Accessibility Wizard.
18. Screen magnification software:
iZoom,
Bigshot, Magnus
ZoomText.
Websites with Additional Information
http://www.specialneedscomputers.ca
http://www.rnib.org.uk
http://www.emptech.info/