[mac4theblind] Re: People with Low Vision
- From: Gaylen Floy <floydom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:51:05 -0700
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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