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Adjust your computer Change your life!
AbilityNet webinar
1 July 2014
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Everyday adjustments
• Common adjustments
• Dyslexia
• Adjusting your text size
• Slowing the keyboard
• Examples of people who we have helped
• Useful links and signposting
• Questions from the audience
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Welcome
Alex Barker, Advice and Information Officer
Mark Walker, Marketing Manager
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Helping disabled people every day
Free helpline – examples of common questions
• Dyslexia
• Increasing text size
• Slowing down the keyboard
Top Tips and Useful Resources
Your questions and answers
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• Dyslexia
• Increasing text size
• Slowing down the keyboard
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Dyslexia
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Dyslexia
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Dyslexia: What helps?
• Screen colour
• Text font
• Background colour
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Dyslexia
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Who have we helped?
• Jon has dyslexia and finds certain text styles or fonts difficult to read, particularly a styles with serifs such as Times New Roman, or ‘cluttered’ scripts such as Helvetica Narrow.
• He finds a sans-serif style like Arial or Verdana much more user friendly.
• MCMW showed him how to change fonts on his computer and in his web browser.
• Now reading text is much easier and less tiring.
• He can also make the text easier to read by displaying it on a coloured background and changing the font size.
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Useful Resources
www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
www.parentpartnership.org.uk
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Changing the text size
• As far as she knows Enid hasn’t got a disability as such but she has noticed changes in her eyesight which causes a lot of dazzle from the screen and makes reading text difficult and tiring.
• Changing the text size by just a little bit means that she can continue to shop online!
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Changing the text size
• Don’t be scared to experiment with changing the text size.
• If it’s too small then enlarge it, and then if it ends up being too big then you can always reduce it.
• Decide if you want to make universal settings or just change the settings in particular pieces of software.
• If you decide to make changes, do them one by one. This way, if you make a change that you don’t like you can easily “step back”.
• Making wholesale changes makes it far harder to go back if they aren’t working.
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Slowing down the keyboard
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Slowing down the keyboard
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Slowing down the keyboard
• On screen keyboard
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Useful links
www.mycomputermyway.com www.abilitynet.org.uk/factsheets
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Questions
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