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How good is Win7 Accessibility for bad eyesight?

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I need to setup my grandpa up with a new comp, but most displays these days make Icons and text tiny.

Other than getting him a super low res screen, or using scaling (he notices and hates the "fuzzy" look of a 1024x768 setting on a 1600x1000 screen)... what can I do for him?

Last time I used accessibility features (Win xp??) it sucked. Is Win7 better?
 
I have very poor eyesight. I keep a reading glass next to my mouse for occasional use. But, in XP, Vista and Win 7, I use the highest resolution my LCD has, and then set the font size at about 130%.

Display Properties, Settings, Advanced, 125% to 130% as normal baseline.

In IE8 I further use the text size function on certain websites. It is also important for me to select a good, bold sans serif screen font such as Verdana - say 11 0r 12 points BOLD.
 
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get him a TV with big pixels, e.g. a 27" Samsung (MATTE finish, NOT shiney) with 1360 x 768 resolution.

of course, you can also get a 32" LCD TV with the same resolution (known as 720P).

Vista had good speech recognition so that if he had that capability, he could dictate emails & stuff. i haven't tried Windows7 but i would think they kept the speech recognition capability.
 
It depends why your vision is bad. If it's due to poor optics (i.e. can be corrected with glasses), then using a high resolution is no problem - just tell him to put his reading glasses on. If his vision is bad because his retina is deteriorating (e.g. age-related macular degeneration), then lower resolution monitors are important because he won't be able to read text on a high-resolution monitor even when wearing reading glasses or bifocals.
 
Big screen is Not a good solution for many people with visual difficulties.

Big screen needs extensive scanning which is part of the difficulties of Old age and other visual disturbances.

Windows has a vast choices of Icon sizes and text size and it very easy to set every thing to the right size.

When there is functional problem the best is to use the desktop as the center of managing the computer.

The trick is to load the Desktop with the essential icons, make them big and use this free util to make sure that all the icons are always in the same position. ( http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=freeware/desktopok ).

Example to clean Win 7 Starter desktop with relatively big icons that covers 90% of the needed work.

Desktop.jpg



P.S. Reading glasses and glasses for computer screen are many times not the same. The focusing distance is diffrent, a person with visual difficulties should get both type of glasses.


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