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WINDOWS 10 -- What\'s New?? - iLink Digital **Unit 7 -- Accessibility** - Accessibility button on the home screen - Magnifying glass - Narrator - Windows Speech Recognition - On-screen keyboard - Setting Accessibility Options - Accessibility Center The goal of accessibility op...

WINDOWS 10 -- What\'s New?? - iLink Digital **Unit 7 -- Accessibility** - Accessibility button on the home screen - Magnifying glass - Narrator - Windows Speech Recognition - On-screen keyboard - Setting Accessibility Options - Accessibility Center The goal of accessibility options is to make it easier for people with visual, motor, or hearing disabilities to use the computer. There will be cases in which, to use a computer, someone requires devices that are mainly designed for their circumstances (such as the device that allows the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to speak through a computer), but, unfortunately, not everyone who requires them has access to them. Accessibility options try to cover these needs generically, although in many cases effectively. As these are existing options in previous versions, in Windows 10, these are not new applications. Still, they have been simplified for use through four applications: Magnifier, Narrator, Windows Speech Recognition, and **On-Screen Keyboard, and their respective options are** in the **Start menu** \> **Settings** \> **Accessibility**. For those who want to make even more detailed adjustments, there is still the **Accessibility Center** that was used in **Windows 7**, which has some wizards that also simplify the use of these tools. In addition, the Accessibility options are available from the Windows Start screen through a button that we can use even before indicating our password or PIN so that they are available from the moment we log in. Let\'s see how to activate and configure the Accessibility tools in Windows 10. **The accessibility button on the home screen** As we already mentioned, basic accessibility options are available from the moment when we turn on the computer and even before we have made any configuration Prior. The button is located in the lower right corner of the screen, where we must indicate  A menu will appear when you press the button while the Narrator is activated. That is, the computer explains aloud what each option in the menu is for as it highlights it. This narration, we must emphasize, is in Spanish. To make the selection easier, press the space bar. That way, we can activate the desired option. The menu is the A picture containing text Description automatically generated - **The narrator** activates a voice that reads the content on the screen. - **Magnifying glass**. Amplify the content of the screen. - **On-screen keyboard** for use with the mouse or simple key combinations. It differs slightly from the one shown on touch screens, such as the ones we studied in the previous unit. - **High contrast**. Modify the play of colors in the Windows interface to make it easier to identify elements. - **Special keys**. Activates a mode in which the key combination (e.g., Ctrl+C) can be performed consecutively rather than simultaneously. - **Filter keys**. Removes inadvertent keystrokes. **Magnifying glass**  We can activate the magnifying glass there, as can the combination of Windows and + keys. Then, a magnifying glass icon appears on the screen with various options. With one click, a small window opens with various options.  - **Zoom Out**: The hotkeys for this feature are Windows + \[key-\]. Zoom out if the - display value is more significant than ***100%*** (i.e. if we have previously increased it). - **Zoom in**: The hotkeys for this feature are Windows + \[key+\]. Zoom increases the percentage value of the display size (200%, 300%, etc.). - **Views**: This allows you to switch between different types of magnifiers. It refers to the way we view enlargement. - **Full screen**: This is the default option. The enlargement will be carried out over the entire screen. - **Lens**: It will maintain the standard size on the screen, but it will draw a box that will enlarge an area. - **Docked**: The enlargement will be presented in a fixed box at the top. This is the format that existed in previous versions of Windows when Windows Magnifier was used. **Options**: The most prominent options are: - The value that adds or subtracts magnification when we press the **Zoom out** and **Zoom in** buttons. By default, it adds or subtracts 100%, but we can change it, for example, so that each time we zoom in, it increases only ***25%.*** - Monitoring: That is, the area that will be expanded. By default, the area where the cursor is passed is expanded, but we can change it to follow the keyboard activity or to - If you have the magnifier in **Lens** mode, you can configure its size in the options.  **Windows Speech Recognition** For people with a motor disability, the Voice Recognition tool is the alternative because, through this tool, it is possible to give verbal orders to the computer to control their actions. It is necessary first to configure a microphone and even \"train\" the computer to identify our tone and speed when speaking. Still, once this training is established, we can use some commands to launch applications, close them, write a document, etc. However, like many tools of this type, it has limitations and still requires development, so we may stumble when using it. To begin with, voice recognition is available in Spanish when writing these lines, but when we request a list of verbal commands, the system shows us a web page with these commands in English. Our system recognizes commands in Spanish, but we don\'t have a complete list of them in our language. On the other hand, the writing of documents has become much more manageable. In any case, while this situation is corrected in an update, let\'s look at the use **of Speech Recognition**. To open the application, we can use the alternatives already known: Type \"Speech recognition\" in the search box, ask Cortana to open it, or simply go to the Start **menu** \> **All applications** \> **Windows Accessibility** \> **Windows Voice Recognition**. The app will display a panel at the top of the screen. When the microphone is greyed out, it is turned off, as indicated by the status window. It is activated when you click the microphone button, and you can place some orders. However, it is advisable first to train the system to detect our words more accurately. To do this, right-click on the microphone to open a pop-up menu with all the relevant options. - The first three options allow you to set the status of the microphone. The menu itself indicates the characteristics of each state: **On**, **Suspended** or **Disabled**. - The following three options are speech recognition help information. However, as we mentioned before, they link to websites in English. - The Options menu shows us the following items that do not require further explanation, as they explain themselves: On the other hand, the **Settings menu** shows us, among others, the option that allows us to train the system.  When you select it, an assistant opens with phrases that you must read as clearly as possible to create a voice profile that will improve the accuracy of verbal command recognition. Graphical user interface, text, application, email Description automatically generated  Below is a list of some of the verbal commands you can use. You can check the complete list with the pop-up menu option that we already mentioned and test translating the commands into Spanish. **Command** ------------- -- **On-screen keyboard** A picture containing text, keyboard, electronics, computer Description automatically generated It is a very complete keyboard. It has the basic alphanumeric keys and the special keys Ctrl, Shift, Lock May, Tab, Esc, Alt Gr. In addition, it includes useful keys for editing texts such as Start, End, etc. - The **function keys** (F1, F2, F3, etc.) are not visible to the naked eye. Press the Fn  key at the bottom. When you do so, the row of number keys will change to present the function keys. They can be switched from numeric to function alternately from this key. - Key **combinations**: To use shortcuts, we often need to press two keys at once. If we press a special key, it will be marked. This will indicate that we can press the second one, it\'s the ***pulsed*** effect. This can be useful, for example, to type the at (Alt Gr + 2), so that those who cannot press a combination of keys simultaneously can do so consecutively. - The Options key on the right can be very useful. It allows us to show, for example, **activate the numeric keypad**. If we show it, the keyboard slightly rearranges the keys on the right. If you notice, Num Lock is pressed, we know it because it is checked. In case we deactivate it, by pressing it again, the area on the right is reorganized showing the aligned arrows. This layout may be more comfortable for us, for example, to play. Also from **Options** we can choose how to use the keyboard: clicking on the keys, hovering over them, examining them, etc. Or even set up **text prediction**. Text prediction is a very useful feature. If we are typing a word, in the top bar it proposes different proposed words that begin with those letters. In this way we save ourselves effort by writing. It can be very convenient especially for people with mobility problems who find it more difficult to write. Writing the letters ***au***, for example, he proposes:  Modify the **size of the keys**: We may find it difficult to press the keys in their size default. If we stretch the edges of the keyboard (resize it), not only will we change the size of the program window, but the keys will be enlarged, making the most of the size given to it. In this way, we can make the keys wider by changing the height of the keyboard. **Configuring accessibility options.** Windows 10\'s contribution to accessibility options is the simplification that characterizes this version of the operating system. That is, we can set our accessibility preferences by activating or deactivating a few options that have been reduced to a minimum. As we know, the way is **Home** \> **Settings** \> **Accessibility** Graphical user interface, application Description automatically generated  Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated **The Accessibility Center** use the legacy Windows 7 wizard with which it is possible to set these options accessibility based on the answers you provide. For Use owe go to the menu **Beginning** \> **All the Applications** \> **System Windows** \> **Panel de Control**.  In the **Control Panel** window, either in the **Categories view** or in the icon view, we must click on the **Downtown Accessibility**. When opened, it begins to work partially the **Narrator** for assist his use. In Bliss window We must do click in **Get recommendations to make this equipment easier to use**. Graphical user interface, text, application, email Description automatically generated