[lbo-talk] Note on Low vision and web sites

[Carrol Cox]

ZoomText, which I have been using for over a year or two, both enlarges 
text (to almost any size) and reads it aloud, with a choice of seeral 
different voices and different speeds. I have an auxillary program which 
I have not explored fully yet which magnifies selected portions of the s 
c reen. In other words, I have no trouble whatever in enlarging the text 
to readable proportions. On web sites, this capacity is double-edged: 
the more I enlarge text, the harder it is to find the text to begin 
with.  There are a number of text-enlargement methods, including the one 
Wojtek mentions. None of them come close to the power and convenience of 
ZoomText. None of them, including ZoomText, are of anyuse whatever in 
FINDING text or buttons on a web site. In fact, using them interferes 
with finding buttons and texts. The limit is simple geometry. The larger 
the content, the less appears on a given screen. In addition, when text 
is enlarged, on web sites (and to some extent on e-mail, the screen goes 
simply nutty and cannot be controlled. In other words, my problems are 
matters of contradictions within the  software I use, not with enlarging 
text. That problem was solved long ago.

Nevertheless, much thanks to everyone for their continue suggestions. 
Who knows, one of them might work one of these days.

Carrol

P.S. At the last line above I lost control of the screen, which would 
not show any more at the bottom. To get room for this I had to hit 
return a number of tiems, so their will be a number of blank lines below 
this line. This is just a minor illustration of screen problems arising 
from expanding the font. There is a P.s. floating down there someplace, 
which I typed but could not at that time see.

P.S.

On 7/20/2011 10:30 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> I have a Microsoft keyboard that has a special button for print
> enlargement - you just press it and the font size increases by a
> preset value.  I do not use it myself, but I noted its functionality
> (at least with Windows 7.)  I have a 22" widescreen monitor that seems
> to work quite well with this function.  You can get both the monitor
> and the keyboard for under $150 nowadays - so you may want to consider
> that option as well.
>
> Wojtek
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