NEW Windows Magnifier READING Feature | How to make windows magnifier read

[@LiveAccessible]

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[@TechnicallyLenard]

That's a neat feature. Microsoft is really stepping up their built-in accessibility... Great video, and glad to see a new video... :)

[@LiveAccessible]

Thanks Leonard! The best part is that it looks like they are taking accessibility more seriously and will be making steps forward and improving. That's what I'm hopeful for! :-)

[@javierdiaz7958]

Finally! Are use magnifier all the time as I always have my screen inverted, so I didn’t notice the new feature. This is a much better option, as I only use screen reading sparingly, particularly for long articles so that I can get through them, and the narrator gets on my nerves. Hopefully this feature works good in the different web browsers like fire fox, which was a big problem with narrator. I’m going to try right now. Thanks! You say psych I told you, it’s like you never left, value

[@LiveAccessible]

Hahha. Thanks so much Javier. I hope it works well on firefox. I tend to just use chrome.... I'm a google kinda girl... and things that I use tend to work faster on chrome. I have firefox installed though just in case. Hey, if it doesn't work with the button just right, you might want to try clicking first (on the text you want to read) and then pressing control + alt + enter. Sometimes, it quite catch the right spot and sometimes doing that helps it. Wishing the best for it!

[@javierdiaz7958]

@@LiveAccessible Boooo!! I just updated windows the other day, I got all the other accessibility feature updates, but not the Magnifier reader.

[@user-jk4nz4oi6w]

Thank you for the update, I am really glad that Microsoft is implementing more accessibility features to the operating system. It really makes it easy two navigate my computer, I used NVDA and Jaws but was getting frustrated when the software would stop working at times.

[@LiveAccessible]

Microsoft is working pretty well on improving their accessibility. I hope that they continue doing so! Jaws and NVDA are great and it's better to have more options so that if one fails, we can use another. 😊

[@rafaeltorovip]

Nice video Carrie. I am still waiting for my new Windows update, but this new feature looks very good and useful. I hope to get my update soon. Thanks and continue doing your nice videos. 👍 😆

[@LiveAccessible]

Hi Rafael! Thanks for watching. Yes, I have it on my laptop but I'm still still waiting for my desktop to get it too. I hope that Microsoft continues improving their accessibility! :-)

[@browley9277]

Awesome! Thanks for this info. Iuse magnifier but didn't know about this feature.

[@LiveAccessible]

Glad to share! 😊

[@toniedudley6593]

Hi Carrie Great video x Thank you 😊

[@LiveAccessible]

Thanks. Tonie!

[@Mrworkout213]

Thank you young lady for the video.🙏

[@LiveAccessible]

You're welcome! Please note that this channel has been discontinued. You can follow my new channel here youtube.com/@carrieonaccessibility

[@SoniKwolf1498]

I just wish that the "Android accessibility Suite - select to speek" function could work on Windows 10 devices. I have tried several screen readers and found that select to speak works best in my use case.

[@WritingbyAnexisMatos]

It’s great that Microsoft is being more accessible. I like that. I think they’re showing some care for their customers. ☺️

[@LiveAccessible]

I hope so! Thanks videl for watching. I remember that you use an iPhone, but I don't remember if you use Mac or Windows. Which one do you use? And by the way, Did you ever get iMovie to do what you wanted?

[@WritingbyAnexisMatos]

Iuse a Windows. I really don’t like it, but I use it. I in general do not like using Jaws. I have never liked the screen reader. I never got iMovie to do what I wanted. If I can find another solution, I will definitely implement it.

[@LiveAccessible]

@@WritingbyAnexisMatos sorry about iMovie! and if you don't use Jaws, do you use narrator or NVDA on your Windows computer? The thing is that Max are so expensive!

[@WritingbyAnexisMatos]

I do use Jaws because it’s convenient and, if we’re being honest, more accessible. I do want a Mac, but I know it’s going to take me some time to get one. I also want a BrailleNote Touch Plus, But that is going to take me years. Well, maybe not, but it’s hard to say, Considering the prices for assistive technology for the blind. I might hold out on that, though because a Mac might be easier. I find VoiceOver to be more bearable than Jaws. I have not tried to use narrator, but I have NVDA installed in my computer as a just in case thing.

[@LiveAccessible]

Can the state division of the blind help in any way? Maybe they can get the braille note plus? And yeah, they are SUPER expensive and it's crazy! At least for the mac, you could get a best buy credit card or pay monthly with apple or something, but not with the assitive tech usually....

[@JuanAlcazar]

This is great. Makes me wonder though if this could cause a few less people to use ZoomText though? Still it’s a nice feature to have there without having to launch another application.

[@LiveAccessible]

There are some nice features on ZoomText, but it is just too power-hungry, and has gotten worse over the years. I've just been using magnifier and using ZoomText in 40-minute mode when I need a specific feature. Lol.

[@robinbrunner6444]

I had an old version of ZoomText (ZoomText 11) and this update crashed my ZoomText AND my Windows Explorer too. Consider uninstalling ZoomText before accepting the update that contains this new magnifier. You may need to purchase a new version of ZoomText if you accept this version of Windows. This new Windows reader feature with its new magnifier is awesome. However, It is worth it for me to purchase the new ZoomText 2021 ($85 annually for personal use only with 3 loads) because of the added features.

[@LiveAccessible]

It really depends on what kind of features you use. There's a lot of things I miss from zoomtext, but I just find the windows magnifier a more smooth experience. What's great is that we have choices. 😀

[@glyphgraphics424]

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[@splashesin8]

I have been going a little nuts trying to figure what I could do to keep an auto refresh from happening as I can't get narrator to skip the stuff all wedged between the text of the main story on a news link. I go to the headings through the links list page somewhat quickly and directly and open up the page and go to the header again, and press insert plus R to get it to read from there, but at some point it's interfered with by a bunch of useless stuff between the text that I used to have a way of skipping past with jaws five or six years ago, but cannot figure out which set of settings I can change next that are not there in the browser but maybe somewhere else. It will keep refreshing in the wrong moment or get hung up in the search edit box not obeying any keyboard commands and not getting with the crux of the story. I am familiar with toggling scan mode on and off, but it just doesn't consistently want to work. I mess around with it awhile trying to get it to maintain focus, trying to figure out if it's inadvertently unlocked or locked a key, or if use if the FN key to use the F1 through F12 shortcuts has taken it off course with some edge of a close button that toggles something completely different or what. Some things just work better on the iphone 6 like going in and out of reading mode etc. I think there are probably more optimal system settings that installation of JAWs would do from the beginning except for a few stray settings I could google and find how to fix in deeper settings. I am missing a segment of browser settings that Windows 10 or The Edge doesn't seem to want me to get to in any quick intuitive way. It has been five or six years. Maybe it will come to me, and I can find more advanced ways to enhance narrator navigational response. Probably muscle memory makes me still throw a few jaws commands in that don't work or cause something else to happen with narrator. I'm guessing. Just regrowing pains. A little like flipping and retraining my brain to music braille code stuff. The rudimentary stuff stays with me after a long time away but the deeper more intricate details of navigating some codes are more involved. I'm just figuring it out as I use it, again, according to need and time constraints. Trying to just interact with the content and probably need to limit some of what I'm doing. Sorry for such a long stream of consciousness on today's technical adventures that I'm moving through. I may try to cut around something by just using that other "read" option. I did try it the other day but didn't know ways to quickly toggle it on and off. Heheh! One night it went super loud and it took me embarrassingly forever to fix that while probably people outside on the sidewalk or next door were wondering what gives!

[@LiveAccessible]

Audrey, I want you to know that I spent a good hour yesterday listening to the narrator user guide because of you! LOL. Have you tried NVDA? I's also free and has the same voice as narrator now. Maybe you'll have a better experience with it.

[@splashesin8]

Live Accessible I momentarily tried NVDA on a little Tablet that didn't have any storage space on it while I was trying to reconstruct my iphone 6 contents back in the iOS 10 debacle, during the last ditch Factory reset, which coincided with the last version of iTunes I could use on my old freshly unsupported windows XP-Pro, and that had gotten corrupted somehow. I had managed to save my texts off of it thankfully before hand and voice mails from people I'd never get to talk to again. Anyway, I have it on that tablet to practice with, and use when another screen reader just won't read the most important thing you need it to like I used the Window Eyes demo for when I had JAWS and needed to submit my electric bill payment at the very end of the Reliant page. I used NVDA some but it had a whole other set of commands as well, and even using it correctly it simply wouldn't let me get onto the "power off" "shut down" control of the tablet/laptopish iDeaplay, most of the time. I started just exiting NVDA and using Narrator at that point because I didn't have all day and a bunch of other reasons. It's there if I feel like messing around with it some more.

[@splashesin8]

Live Accessible I'm suspecting that a large part of my problem may be that when I first started things up, not thinking on my feet real fast I fell for accepting Bing as my browser and there is some Microsoft banner on almost every news story that keeps regrabbing control of Narrator instead of letting me get to the header, and beyond or in and edit box when I want to, but not perpetually stuck in the search box instead of the news story. I'd also like to stop the timing out and refreshing the page which is also grabbing narrator like it is Ground Hog day the movie again and again halfway through an article. I read up on how to do away with Bing. It continues to be pervasively annoying. I thought I'd like it and that Narrator was supposed to work well with it in The Edge browser. Nope, sadly. Does not consistently work, and has ignored my search engine queries for locations other than where I am right now, which is not the only location I need functional briefings for. I already know how the map changes here from day to day, and what our Covid19 situation is, and our available ICU situation is like. There's a landline message on my landline answering machine every day this past week. I keep all my hometowns in my weather widget on the phone, why can't Bing quit trying to redirect my life. I makes wonder if it is operating on the assumptions of an algorithm that thinks a person using Narrator doesn't need to check other geographical locations. I checked my settings again to get Cortana out of my life, and the microphone except for when I, choose to record, music, and not questions for search engines. I'm well aware of how bizarre google translates a voicemail to my friend in text. That's why I don't need to add that to the frustration of the usual navigational annoyances. Okay, I'm realizing I need to eat. I skipped eating today in order to make it to the grocery store before it closed and get back without needing a bathroom. I'm not sure any are available, or have been since March. Sorry, this is why I'm probably typing so long. I need to forage I brought back some food, to put with other food. Definitely in low blood sugar brain fog. See ya later🌟🥨🥜

[@robinbrunner6444]

Can you set your browser to NOT Auto Refresh?

[@splashesin8]

@@robinbrunner6444 I don't think I've found that setting yet. I started using the shift plus U. It might be insert plus shift plus U, to read the main article. Also this post may have been just before or soon after I had to send that laptop in because it had a faulty disk drive that wouldn't let it restart at some point. Thankfully it was under warranty at the time. I still have not put much of anything on the computer yet. It has so many windows 10 settings it took forever for me to get through them. My Office 365 subscription expired before I could even get completely through its settings, and I still have not put my email on that computer or in the office 365 environment. Too broke to subscribe again at the moment. No time from trying to just deal with various agencies trying to get help with funding. I may need to buy a printer to use with a second hand FAX machine if I ever get the FAX machine. My friend was saying she was giving it to me a long time ago. Lots of my time is taken walking and riding the fixed route busses to try and get paperwork done with agencies and things. Just surviving. Would love to be working on other stuff I do best, instead of red tape. I really want to get reaper running on my windows 10 computer. It's going to need a big hub with analogue to digital conversion.

[@ashokkumaramalapurapu552]

While writing online exam in pc is that allows us to open magnifier?

[@LiveAccessible]

It should! It depends on what software is on the computer

[@jahidulkarimattemuriagps9090]

Please use N V D A .

[@LiveAccessible]

Hi there! I don't know as much about NVDA as Jaws, but my husband uses both jaes and NVDA. I saw Nvidia was only a screen reader? Or does it have a magnifier built into it too?