5 Feb
2014
5 Feb
'14
8:56 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
Onwards to other things. One of the major things that keeps me from
jumping ship from the Wonderful World of Windows to free software
(FreeBSD or Debian, I like both), is that from my experiences of the
free software world, accessibility and ease of use features seem to
have been implemented by a lobotomized rhesus monkey. The "proper"
screen reading and screen magnification software, that which is sold
commercially and used/vetted by organizations, tends to be stuck as
Windows software only, with some companies finally going to Mac OSX.
Trying to run software like ZoomText or Kurzweil on a Linux or BSD
system is damn well near impossible, at least the last time I tried.
The free software is buggy, like the one magnifier/reader which by
defaults starts up as a reader only, no magnification; after
configuring it, it promptly goes "LOLNOPE" to keeping its new config
after exiting the config screen.
I thought I'd mention this in the offchance that you haven't seen it
yet...
in OS X there is a built-in zoom/magnify feature... if you hold down
control while scrolling up and down to zoom in and out. Focus follows the
mouse by default... not sure if you can have it follow the cursor or not,
but I use it fairly often even though I'm not a "low vision" user.