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by Thunder_chey » Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:56 pm
Hi, im a little visualy impared and the font size of this board is so small its very diffricult to read. I have my standard web broser set to largest font, but the font on here comes out to be around 8 pica or so. I need about 14 to read comfterbly. It would be healpfull if I could have bigger font.
Thanks and sorry to be a bother.
Chey
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by silent_scream » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:12 pm
Hey. Last time I made my font bigger through IE, it worked with bus: so maybe try it again? Otherwise I don't know. You can get like magnifying screens or something to make it bigger too can't you? I'm not sure.
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by guest11 » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:51 pm
On most Windows based computer systems there is an on screen magnifier that turns the top of the screen into a magnifying glass... it follows your mouse. If you move your mouse over the words, it magnifies them at the top.
To get it from Windows XP, go to... Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Magnifier. You can even change the order of magnification to make it even bigger. Give it a try, if you have it.
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by Slightly Crazy » Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:49 pm
chey
there is a browser i use called Mozilla Firefox, its basically netscape ut bethere, there is an option on it where ucan just press ctr up/down and u can make the font really really ERALLY big (or raelly really really small)
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by silent_scream » Wed Feb 23, 2005 9:46 pm
Slightly Crazy wrote:chey
there is a browser i use called Mozilla Firefox, its basically netscape ut bethere, there is an option on it where ucan just press ctr up/down and u can make the font really really ERALLY big (or raelly really really small)
oooh i use that and it doesn't get bigger for me!
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by Thunder_chey » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:08 am
Thanks, I actualy ended up looking in exploror options and check marked the box saying ignore font size (bla bla). Its much easier to read. I should use the magnifyer program you mentioned slightly crazy. Hey could you get me the link sometime. Just msn me thats fine. I will ask you on msn anyhow. ttyl!
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by swirlish » Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:57 am
If you are visually impaired, can I suggest a text to speech program? It is a program that will read the text on the screen out loud for you. I have set it up for friends and they love it.
http://www.deskbot.com is a good one
Good luck!
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