Abstract
Standard features in MS Office can be used to enhance the appearance of text and graphics images, and thereby provide visual screen access to people with low vision. Although not designed to be accessibility tools, these features can be more useful than Windows accessibility features. This easy, no-cost approach permitted a college student with extremely limited vision to switch from using the computer as a blind person, to accessing it well enough visually to be able to make schematic drawings by using a mouse.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Gilden, D. (2002). Using MS Office Features as Low Vision Accessibility Tools. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_89
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_89
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-43904-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45491-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive