Re: Another idea for Magnification

["Carlos Diógenes" <cerdiogenes gmail com>]

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 <gnome-info powell homeip net>:
> 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
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