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		<title>Go Full Screem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step to making a computer more accessible is to make everything on the screen bigger. This involves tricks like lowering the rsolution, zooming and using large fonts. These adjustments definitely increase readability and overall usability. There is a cost. Screen real estate becomes more valuable. Even larger monitors experience this problem. I use a widescreen monitor. Thee costs are particularly high with this type of monitor. Taskbars and toolbars take up large amounts of vertical space, squeezing the usable vertical screen space to a narrow strip. One solution is to use full screen mode. Many applications offer this as an option. Internet browsers, such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, have this option hidden in one of their menus. Most photo editors also offer this feature. Below is a screen shot of Firefox in full screen mode. Clearly, thereis substantial reclaimed screen real estate. Here is how to access the full screen mode on some common applications on Windows Vista: Firefox: Full Screen on the View menu or F11 Internet Explorer: Full Screen on the Tools menu or F11 Open Office: Full Screen on the View menu or Ctrl+Shift+J If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Computer Access Tip: Use a Black Background</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fun way to liven up your computer screen is to add a favorite photo as the desktop background. The problem is the your family portrait or pet collage make the icons difficult to make out and the text hard to read. Moving to a solid color background, such as black, makes for a boring, but easily understood screen. In Windows Vista, you can easily set the background to a solid black. In the Personalization control panel, the desktop background option shows the foloowing screen, where you can selct a &#8216;solid background&#8216; color: Both Windows XP and Mac OS offer similar background settings, though XP does nto offer a simple solid color option. A simple workaround is to take a picture with your camera lens completely covered. The resulting photo is a simple black picture that you can set as your background image. This tip also works for any device where you can set a background image, including your computer and most cell phones. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Do You Dislike Notepad? Go for EditPad Instead.Save Energy, Save Eyestrain &#8211; Try a Different Color SchemeHigh Contrast and Dark-on-Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT&#8217;s Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lst week, the Gadgetwise Blogat the NY Times offered this Tip of the Week: Desktop Magnifying Glass. Tired of squinting at tiny type the screen all day? In Windows Vista, you can bump up the font size — right-click on the desktop, select Personalize and click on “Adjust font size.” Once the “DPI Scaling” window comes up (probably after a Vista security alert), select the larger “120 dpi” setting and click OK. Illustrated instructions are here. On a Mac OS X Leopard system, you can increase the size of type on desktop icons by going to the View menu to Show View Options; the text size controls are there. Mac users can zoom in on the screen by pressing the Option-Command-plus (+) keys; pressing Command-Option-minus (-) zooms out. Pressing the Command key and either the plus or minus keys increases the size of the text in certain Mac programs like Mail and Safari. It&#8217;s very useful. I did it myself as soon as I brought my new Vista machine in the house last year. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Simple Computer Access Tip: Use a Black BackgroundFirefox Tip: Increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Alternative Google Color Schemes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes &#8211; accessible &#124; Google Groups&#60; For the visually impaired, Google&#8217;s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme is downright bad. Does Google have or could it develop an alternative accessible co or scheme? Not only should it be high contrast, but also light-on-dark. For me, I like yellow-on-black. Firefox and IE allow users to impose color schemes while browsing, but this method changes all text and background to the same two colors. This ruins the full use of each page. For example, in Gmail, the star feature becomes useless.For another, regular text and hyperlinks become indistinguishable. So this solution is only partial. This remains true for other websites and for Windows as well. Both Vista and XP have high-contrast color schemes, but there are both aesthetically unappealing (Visually impaired does not equal aesthetically unaware) and more problematic then helpful. Is this something that Google could/will implement? Is this something a third-party could do well? There are some third party tools (e.g. Firefox&#8217;s Accessibar), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Accessible Windows Vista Themes</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/07/accessible-windows-vista-themes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in the last post, I have just moved to a Windows Vista machine. I have spent the last few days looking for a decent theme with large fonts and good light-on-dark contrast. There are none! The Windows high contrast themes, besides being hideous, do not have large text. To check these out, you can either right-click on the desktop and select &#8216;Personalize&#8216; and then to &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; or go to the &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; Control Panel and then to &#8216;Set Up High Contrast&#8216;. Either way, you are stuck with an ugly interface with the small font. The &#8216;Ease of Access Center&#8216; has an option for changing something called DPI to make the font easier to read, but that only goes so far. I checked out the trial version of WindowBlinds, but I could not easily find any accessible themes. After a frustrating few minutes with the software, I sent an email to the company who sells it, asking them if WindowBlinds offeres any accessible themes. In the end, I spent a good chunk of time adjusting all the color and font settings in the &#8216;Windows Colors and Appearance&#8216; panel. After a few mistakes and [...]]]></description>
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