My daughter uses a Windows PC. She has recently been diagnosed with RP, which runs in our family. For now, her symptoms are mild. She doesn't need a screen reader such as Narrator or NVDA. However, she might benefit from high contrast colors, a larger mouse pointer, or whole screen magnification. Are these features available in Windows? Can they be easily toggled on and off with a keyboard shortcut? Last time I used Windows was Win7, and switching to high contrast colors and tweaking the mouse pointer were in settings without a convenient keyboard shortcut. There was no way to do whole screen magnification without a third party tool like ZoomText. Win7 had Magnifier, but it was klunky.
Please update me on these low vision features in current Windows so I can share the info with my daughter. Thanks.
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Refer to this
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-keyboard-shortcuts-for-accessibility-021bcb62-45c8-e4ef-1e4f-41b8c1fc87fd
Some resources
Hey Paul,
These links might be useful for you and your daughter. Enjoy! :)
A look at Magnifier
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-magnifier-to-make-things-on-the-screen-easier-to-see-414948ba-8b1c-d3bd-8615-0e5e32204198
Windows 11 Overview of Accessibility features by The Blind Life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yQ9HUNuLeI