Adjust Your Computer, Change Your Life! AbilityNet webinar 1 July 2014

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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

http://www.dyslexiaaction.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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• 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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Adjust Your Computer, Change Your Life! AbilityNet webinar 1 July 2014

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