[mac4theblind] Re: People with Low Vision
- From: Lena Contreras <lenac@xxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:57:33 -0700
How do you zoom in?
On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Gaylen Floy wrote:
> Hi, if your senior citizen has good central acuity the large print feature
> might be all she needs and VoiceOver would be annoying. If she still can't
> read the icons or text, try the Zoom feature. Zoom takes practice.
>
> Gaylen Floy
>
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Lena Contreras wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> Has anyone had any experience using the large print feature on the iPad 2.
>> I will be helping a senior citizen at the Senior Center with her new iPad 2
>> and she's losing her vision to macular degeneration. It sounds like she
>> wants to enlarge the font so she can see the icons and text but not
>> interested in VoiceOver now. Since I only have light perception, I can only
>> use VoiceOver and have no experience with the magnification features on the
>> iPad. I understand I can't run both VoiceOver and the magnification
>> programs at the same time.
>> Any thoughts would be helpful. I'm hoping once she sees how I use VoiceOver
>> with my iPhone, she'll want to try it. But, in my experience, people who
>> still have some sight left will try to use it even if it is causing more
>> frustration than trying another way to do things. I guess I'd be the same
>> way.
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