Advice for user with impaired vision

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:01:10 -0400 (EDT) "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:14:01 -0600 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> > 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.

Also: the xeyes "toy": a pair of eyes that are always looking at the mouse 
pointer.

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