The Windows 10 Accessibility Handbook: Supporting Windows Users with Special Visual, Auditory, Motor, and Cognitive Needs - Softcover

Halsey, Mike

 
9781484217320: The Windows 10 Accessibility Handbook: Supporting Windows Users with Special Visual, Auditory, Motor, and Cognitive Needs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1484217322 ISBN 13: 9781484217320
Publisher: Apress, 2015

Synopsis

Learn everything you need to know about making Windows 10 easier to use, see, hear, touch, or read, whether you are using it yourself, setting it up for another person, teaching others about ease of use at work or in the home, or working with a variety of people with specific needs in the community.

What You'll Learn:
  • Manage accessibility in the Settings app, and make use of the Ease of Access Center
  • Make your keyboard and mouse easier to use
  • Make text and windows easier to read
  • Use text or visual alternatives for sounds
  • Use the narrator, and control it using touch and with the keyboard
  • Use Cortana as a smart PC assistant
  • Make use of Windows 10 shortcut keys, and touch and trackpad gestures
  • Use and train the handwriting recognition feature
  • Dictate or navigate using speech recognition
Who This Book Is For:<

The audience for this book includes (but is not limited to) Windows users with special visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive needs, at home and in the workplace. It provides guidance for IT and management professionals who work with such users, as well as the community and statutory groups, organizations, colleges, universities, and government agencies that support them. It is also a guide for friends and family supporting elderly or disabled Windows users in the home, and for anyone else looking for advice on how to make their PC simpler, easier, more productive, and ultimately more enjoyable to use.

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About the Author

Mike Halsey is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awardee and the author of more than a dozen books on Microsoft Windows.

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Publisher
Apress
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1484217322
ISBN 13 
9781484217320
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144