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Re: [orca-list] Magnifier

Hi,
The problem with magnification with the free systems I know about, is that they do not do cursor tracking. For this reason F123 funded improvements to the eZoom plugin for Compiz Fusion.
Thanks to Alejandro Leiva, the developer with whom we have been working on this initiative, there is an improved version available for testing.
We are hopeful it will soon be available for use at the upstream version of eZoom, but for those who know how to use GIT repositories etc, here is the info: 

Alejandro's GIT repository can be found at:
https://github.com/gloob/compiz-accessibility-plugin

You can also find Alejandro's version of eZoom at this URL:
https://github.com/gloob/gloob-Ezoom-fork
To give Alejandro feedback, please contact him at this e-mail address: gloob litio org
Please note that Gnome 3 does not use Compiz Fusion, and for that reason cannot use this plugin. It should be fine for Gnome Fallback and Unity 3D, but I have personally not tried it yet, since I am blind. 

Best wishes,

Fernando

On 05/17/2012 02:03 PM, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote:

I'll just repost a message that I sent previously to the list:

Magnification works great on gnome3. I use it every day. It's built in.
You can enable it by clicking on the little man in the circle at the top
of the screen. There is also a setting to make text larger, this does
not work OK. Unfortunately some applications don't know how to deal with
large text on small displays, and they become too big to fit on the
screen. But the magnifier works great. You can set up hotkeys to
increase/decrease the magnification level. Or you can use a tool like
https://github.com/timthelion/gnome-shell-zoom-control-window/wiki to be
able to control the magnification level by pressing buttons on the screen.

I like to use magnification with my tablet. That lets me move the pen
across the display and in doing so move the magnifier view.

If you don't like gnome's magnifier for some reason(for example, you
wish to use a different window manager than gnome, you can use
http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/#gettingstarted or xzoom. I've tried
the former, but not the latter(I've tried xzoom now, and it also works
well, but is a bit more blocky/pixelated then the gnome3 one). The
former is quite good, though it's a "software magnifier" and not a
"hardware magnifier" there is a slight difference in both
speed/smoothness of magnification and behaviour. The gnome magnifier can
magnify the whole screen at once, and you then move around by panning,
while the software one can only place a little window over the screen
and magnify one portion of the screen at a time.

Now that I looked, it seems KDE too has a magnifying glass.

One thing I'd have to say, is it's almost always better to use some kind
of larger text, then to use a magnifier. This is because it renders more
crisply... Be aware of
http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/resize-text-in-firefox-3-without-changing-the-size-of-images/2775/
... Unfortunately as web pages get "more intelligent" they also get less
and less accessible. Every day, more and more web sites are impossible
to just zoom in, due to an over-abundance of fixed width columns. One
thing, you might try, is Opera's view to view a web page like a mobile
web browser would. This tells the web page to be less intelligent and
less collumy, and can help to make the content resize better. I
personally don't use this though, as I find that many web pages using
Java script lose their functionality in that mode.


---------- PÅvodnà zprÃva ----------
Od: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou actux eu org>
Datum: 17. 5. 2012
PÅedmÄt: [orca-list] Magnifier

    Hi,

    I've just tested a recent release of orca, and done some Searches, and I
    believe that magnifier on orca has disappeared. Could you confirm? No
    longer magnification possible on orca? Does an alternate exist, as
    powerful as orca tools? How can we run it easily in a GUI?

    Another question (sorry, out of subject): how do you shut down the
    computer with gnome3 and orca?

    Thanks,

    Best regards,


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