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Accesibility Guide for People with Motor Weakness Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 ACCESSIBILITY GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH MOTOR WEAKNESS IN ENVIRONMENT WINDOWS 7 1. How to configure the options if you have difficulty using the keyboard or mouse. If you have difficulty using the keyboard or mouse, you can configure quickly the options with the Accessibility Wizard. Windows has two features that help you use your computer without using the mouse or keyboard: Speech Recognition (you can use voice commands to work with Windows) and On-screen keyboard (you can enter text by selecting characters on the screen). Using the mouse Using the keyboard 1 In the Start menu : Click the Start menu by pressing CTRL + ESC (or the logo Windows key ). Select Control Panel. Write accibility Center Select Accessibility. Intro Select Accessibility Center Use the computer without a Click Use the computer without mouse or keyboard a mouse or keyboard Or directly click: Press + U Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard 2 You can select: You can select: Use the onscreen keyboard Use the onscreen keyboard O O Use Voice Recognition Use Voice Recognition ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 1 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Using the mouse Using the keyboard 3 Onscreen keyboard: To go directly to on-screen keyboard: This option enables on-screen Windows key keyboard to run the Windows log. On Type: Screen Keyboard displays a visual %windir%\system32\osk.exe keyboard with all the standard keys. You can select the keys with the mouse or other pointing device, or you can use standard keyboard keys. 4 Voice recognition: To go directly to Voice recognition: With a microphone you can Windows key speak commands that the computer Type: will understand and will respond as %windir%\Speech\Commo well as dictate text. n\sapisvr.exe-SpeechUX The center screens following are accessibility and: ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 2 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Figure 1- Accessibility Center -Figure 2- Screen Keyboard -Figure 3- Voice recognition ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 3 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 In the Speech Recognition settings will have to follow screens like the following for proper use: -Figure 4- Voice recognition -Figure 5- Voice recognition ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 4 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 -Figure 6- Voice recognition -Figure 7- Voice recognition ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 5 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 -Figure 8- Voice recognition Some of the configuration options within the center of accessibility for mobility issues are to Facilitate the use of the keyboard (StickyKeys) Facilitate the use of the mouse (MouseKeys), with which you get more help using the software, and you can select the size and color of the cursor and blink rate and the configuration of mouse buttons. Facilitate the use of the keyboard (Sticky Keys): Using the mouse Using the keyboard 1 In the Start menu : Click the Start menu by pressing CTRL + ESC (or the logo key de Windows Select Control Panel. ). Select Accessibility. Write Accibility Center Select Accessibility Center Intro Press Facilitate the use of the Use the computer without a keyboard. mouse or keyboard Or directly click: Press + U Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 6 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Using the mouse Using the keyboard 2 The selection options are: Select the desired options using the UP ARROW, BASS, RIGHT AND Turn on Mouse Keys. This LEFT option sets Mouse Keys to run when you start a Windows session. Instead of using the To activate the selected option do mouse, you can use the arrow with the keys + (activated) - (off). keys on the keyboard or the keypad to move the pointer. Turn on Sticky Keys. This option Enable and disable mouse sets the special keys to run the keys: Windows log. Instead of having to press three keys at once Alt left+UppCas left+Bloq Num (like when you press simultaneously the Ctrl, Alt and Delete to log on to Windows), you can use a single key if you Enabling and disabling special select Special keys and adjust keys: the settings. In this way, you can press a modifier key and Uppercase 5 times. keep it active until another key is pressed. Enable and disable the Toggle Turn on Toggle Keys. This Keys: option sets Toggle Keys to run when you start a Windows Block Num for five seconds. session. Toggle Keys can play an alert every time you press the Caps Lock, Num Lock or Turn Filter Keys: Scroll Lock. This will alert you if Right Shift for 8 seconds you press one of these buttons accidentally. Turn Filter Keys. This option sets Filter Keys to run when you start a Windows session. To close the control panel: You can set Windows to ignore Press ALT+A, C. keystrokes that occur in rapid succession or those held for several seconds unintentionally. ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 7 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Using the mouse Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys. This option provides access through the keyboard in the dialog boxes highlighting key access controls. For more information about keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard shortcuts. Prevent windows are automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen. This option prevents resize windows and fit on the sides of the screen to move up there automatically. -Figure 9- Location in the accessibility center ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 8 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 -Figure 10- Facilitate the use of keyboard Facilitate the use of mouse (MouseKeys) Using the mouse Using the keyboard 1 In the Start menu : Click the Start menu by pressing CTRL + ESC (or the logo key de Windows Select Control Panel. ). Select Accessibility. Write Accibility Center Select Accessibility Center Intro Press Facilitate the use of the Use the computer without a keyboard. mouse or keyboard Or directly click: ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 9 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Press + U Use the computer without a mouse or keyboard Using the mouse Using the keyboard 2 The selection options are: Select the desired options using the UP ARROW, BASS, RIGHT AND Change the color and size of LEFT the mouse pointers. You can use these options to increase the size of mouse pointer, or To activate the selected option do change the color for ease of us with the keys + (activated) - (off). Turn on Mouse Keys. You can Enable and disable mouse use this option to control the keys: movement of the mouse pointer using the numeric Alt left+UppCas left+Bloq Num keypad. Activate a window to move the mouse over it. This feature facilitates the selection and activation of a window, because it can point to the window with the mouse instead of clicking on it. To close the control panel: Prevent windows are Press ALT+A, C. automatically arranged when you move it to the brink of setting the screen. This option prevents resize windows and automatically that fit on the sides of the screen to move up there. ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 10 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 -Figure 11- Location in the accessibility center -Figure 12- Facilitate the use of mouse ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 11 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Note: Also available within the settings options "Providing use of equipment "and "facilitate the work tasks " that allow you to adjust the accessibility options and even more used, can be activated when you log on your computer -Figure 3: Location in the Accessibility Center Providing use of equipment (Alt + Left Shift + Left ImprPantalla) Choose a high contrast theme. This option lets you set a combination of high contrast colors increases the color contrast of some of the texts and images displayed on the computer screen that is sharper and easier to identify. Turn on or off High Contrast when you press the left Alt + Left Shift + Print Screen. This option allows you to enable or disable a High Contrast theme if you press the Left Alt + Left Shift + Print Screen. Turn on Narrator. This option sets the Narrator to run when you log on the computer. Narrator reads aloud the text displayed on screen and describes some events (such as error messages) that occur while using the computer. For more information about using the Narrator, see Hear text read aloud with Narrator. ASIC – November 18, 2010 Pág. 12 de 16 Accessibility guide for people with motor weakness Windows 7 Turn on Audio Description. This option sets Audio Description to run when you log on the computer. Audio descriptions describe what happens in the videos. Change the size of text and icons. This option allows you to make text and other elements of the screen appear larger and therefore easier to see. For more information, see Increase or decrease the screen text. Turn on Magnifier. This option sets the Magnifier to run when you log on the computer. Magnifier enlarges the part of the screen that points the mouse and can be very useful for viewing objects difficult to view .. For more information about using the Magnifier, see Make items on the screen (magnifying glass). Adjust the colour and transparency of the edge of the windows. This option changes the appearance of window borders to make it easier to distinguish.
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