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viewpoint I would like to get the full screen magnification sorted so =
that you don't need to hack it to make it work, and also the ability to =
change between themes on the fly.  The rest of the differences can wait. =
 I just want to be able to either enlarge the screen to a size and =
colour so I can read it, or sit back and listen to a document being read =
back to me.

Anything over and above this is icing on the proverbial cake.

But of course being visually impaired is only one set of disabilities =
that is trying to be addressed.

Of course the other major problem is to get projects and developers to =
incorporate the necessary glue to make their apps accessabile.  But =
that, as they say, is another story.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of
Veli-Pekka T=C3=A4til=C3=A4
Sent: 07 December 2006 20:57
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Screen Magnifier


Hi,
I'm a SUpernova user myself and have so far yet to find anything =
comparable=20
in LInux or OS X. There are five big things that many of these =
magnifiers=20
don't have, which are part of Supernova:
1. The thing is able to redraw true type fonts larger on the fly (image=20
smoothing). So if you zoom in, the fonts won't pixelate or blur at all.
2. Fractional magnification values such as 1.5 x are supported. X and Y=20
magnification may be adjusted independently, if desired.
3. You can spawn multiple magnified areas to monitor particular portions =
of=20
the screen e.g. the status bar (hooked areas).
4. When the mouse is tracked, it starts scrolling before the pointer =
hits=20
the edge of the magnified viewport (mouse frame). What this boils down =
to is=20
that the mouse is easier to see as it moves in a smallish area in the =
center=20
of the screen unless you hit the physical screen edge.
5. Supernova is able to highlight the different points of focus =
(rectangle,=20
pointer, caret) in a user specified way using large arrows, boxes, color =

tinting and so on (focus highlighting).
6. it let's you switch colors on the fly based on the color circle and=20
contrast, tints (of foreground and background) or exact color =
replacements=20
(color changer).

I'm not trying to advertise SN here. I'm just saying that many of the =
free=20
magnifiers have a long way to go to get even close to the functionality =
of=20
Supernova or Zoom Text. Personally I would find all of these features =
very=20
useful and use most of them on a daily basis in Windows despite being=20
primarily a speech user. I would very much like to see them added to =
Linux=20
magnifiers, too.

Too bad my current virtual PC based setup doesn't have enough horse =
power to=20
handle magnification properly. The only physical machine I could =
dedicate to=20
LInux would be a 300 MHz Celeron with 128 MB RAM. I guess Gnome is slow =
as=20
tar, to directly translate a Finnish saying, on such a system.

--=20
With kind regards Veli-Pekka T=C3=A4til=C3=A4 =
(vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/

=C3=98yvind Lode wrote:
> Instead of magnifying just a portion of the screen it magnifies the
> whole screen/desktop in real-time.
>
> I'm now using Supernova on Windows, I have fullscreen magnification on
> and the magnification Level is 14x which is quite high.
> If I move the mouse to the upper left of the screen I can only see the
> title bar "Compose:" and beneath that I see the File, Edit, View and
> just below that I see the Send and Contact buttons in Thundeerbird.
> To see the rest I have to move the mouse around.
> You may say what I see on my screen is about 14 times bigger than what
> you see because you probably dont need magnification to read text on
> your computer.=20


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