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Table of Contents Overview of Accessibility in Windows 8 .................................................................................................. 7 What’s new in Windows 8 accessibility ...................................................................................................................................7 Narrator and touch-enabled devices .................................................................................................................................................. 7 Magnifier and touch-enabled devices ............................................................................................................................................... 9 Ease of Access .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Make your PC easier to use ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Customizing the Ease of Access page .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Choosing more tools and settings in the Ease of Access Center .......................................................................................... 14 Get recommendations for Ease of Access settings ..................................................................................................................... 16 Make the text on your screen larger or smaller ................................................................................................................. 16 Hear text read aloud with Narrator ....................................................................................................................................... 17 Starting Narrator ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 New touch gestures ................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 New keyboard shortcuts ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Narrator settings ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Using Speech Recognition ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 Set up Speech Recognition .................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Using Speech Recognition .................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Controlling your PC with Speech Recognition .............................................................................................................................. 25 Dictation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Keyboard keys ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 27 Punctuation marks and special characters ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Controls ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 29 Windows....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Tap or click anywhere on the screen ................................................................................................................................................ 30 Use Magnifier to see items on the screen ........................................................................................................................... 31 Using Magnifier ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Changing Magnifier views..................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Customizing Magnifier ........................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Use the On-Screen Keyboard (OSK) to type ....................................................................................................................... 32 To open On-Screen Keyboard ............................................................................................................................................................. 33 Use text or visual alternatives to sounds ............................................................................................................................. 34 To change your settings ........................................................................................................................................................................ 34 Personalization ............................................................................................................................................ 35 Personalize your PC ................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Change your background, colors, and account picture ................................................................................................... 35 Themes and desktop backgrounds ................................................................................................................................................... 36 Customize the Start screen ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 Create tiles for your favorite people and places .......................................................................................................................... 36 Pin or unpin apps ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Rearrange and resize tiles ..................................................................................................................................................................... 37 Rearranging tiles on Start ........................................................................................................................................................ 37 Get started with themes ........................................................................................................................................................... 38 What's a theme? ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Creating themes ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 Where is Control Panel? ........................................................................................................................................................... 42 How to use the taskbar............................................................................................................................................................. 44 Rearrange taskbar buttons ................................................................................................................................................................... 44 Move the taskbar