Advice for user with impaired vision

[Colin Law]

Thanks all for the suggestions. Also I have just realised that in
Settings there is a Universal Access tool that allows one to switch on
cross-hairs for the cursor, which makes it really stand out, and also
has a screen magnifier.

Colin

On 1 October 2017 at 04:22, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> wrote:
> found the utility, it is called 'oneko' it is in the repos, and works.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:14:01 -0600 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 09/30/2017 01:55 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>> > I am looking for suggestions to help a friend who has poor vision to
>>> > use his computer.  Obviously I can make the text and icons larger but
>>> > I wonder whether anyone can offer any other advice or any tools that
>>> > might help further. His vision is not so poor that he needs a text to
>>> > speech screen reader.
>>> >
>>> > Colin
>>>
>>> One thing that helped me a lot waiting for cataract surgery was
>>> turning on a feature that enabled "mouse trails" -- a series of
>>> mouse pointer images left behind the mouse as it moves and that
>>> fade out quickly.  Without that I could never see where the mouse
>>> pointer was.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that was on Windows I think.  I don't see anything
>>> in my Xfce4 accessibility settings that looks like it.  But maybe
>>> other desktop suites offer it or it is available as an add-on.
>>
>> There used to be a X11 "utility" that featured a "cat" that chased after the
>> mouse pointer.  It might exist somewhere as old X11 utility somewhere.  It is
>> likely to still be buildable.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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