Windows offers capabilities to help mobility impaired and blind or visual impaired users.
The utility manager helps user to start or stop accessibility programs.
These built in accessibility programs are magnifier, narrator and on screen keyboard.
Magnifier-is a display utility that makes the screen more readable.
The magnifier creates a separate window that displays a portion of the magnified screen.
Narrator- is a text to speech program, it gives users who are blind or have impaired vision ability to be able to use their computers.
It reads what is displayed on your screen, the contents of the active window, menu options, or the text you have typed. For the effectiveness of the narrator utility the computer should be sound enabled(able to output sound).
On screen keyboard (OSK) -this utility displays a virtual keyboard on screen and allows users with mobility impairments to use a pointing device or joystick to type data.
You can active utility manager by pressing the Windows logo key + U.
You can also open utility manager by clicking Start, pointing to All Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, and then clicking utility manager. You can active the Magnifier and on screen keyboard within the utility manager.
