Using the Computer with a Visual Impairment - How I Do It

[@robertjjuuko1150]

Thanks alot. Godvbless you. You are an inspiration!😅

[@LokleyTheo]

Thank you! Helping my friend to set up his PC and this video helped a lot!

[@Demiser500]

If you use Edge you can highlight text, right click and have it read aloud, and the voices are actually not unpleasant. I am recovering from PRK eye surgery and found your video very helpful. These features are life savers.

[@sheilaghburchart3513]

Thank you so much, this will help a lot!

[@Summer.ElAmir]

Hey Maha, First of all, great work on creating this series of videos about accessibility. Part of my job is to try create applications that are both usable and accessible, so seeing your perspective of things is very enlightening and important for us. You were asking if there is a simple screen reader that would read a highlighted line of text. We use NVDA (which is free, but has a robotic voice of course). We do not necessarily highlight the text, but if you put the mouse cursor on a line, it will read it out for you. Not sure if you have used it before, but would love to hear your feedback about it since it is one of the main apps we depend on to test applications. Great work, and keep it up :))

[@legallyblind4215]

Thank you for your comment! Yes, I tried NVDA in the past, and the extremely robotic voice turned me off a bit. This was a few years ago, however, it is possible that some software updates have made it a bit friendlier. I will check it out again soon :-)

[@JohnBernieLaborte]

Hi, I have use NVDA a lot of times & yeah, the synthesiser's voice is not really good. But you can install add-ons that will let you change the voice. In my case, I use eloquence for NVDA.

[@fridoomkoridama3131]

Hey Maha, nice to see you, i'am doing these too. Good content anw, thank you!

[@curtisep5885]

Dunno if you have seen them & now good ones aran't cheap. However I have used crt monitor arms. Great if like me you prefer to have the screen @ your nose with bith vertical & horizontal adjustments. Clamps ontp desk in back or side. Also available to wall mount. These days I do most things on my phone or tablet. Not suitable atall for word processing. As my eyes get worse, thank God for BARD book reader. Hard to give up on reading. Thanks for the info video.

[@legallyblind4215]

Thank you for your comment! I'm definitely interested in these monitor arms and will look them up! I dream of designing the perfect computer set up for the visually impaired that includes everything from the seat you're in to fully adjustable everything. Shouldn't be that hard, theoreticaly, but practically.... :)

[@curtisep5885]

@@legallyblind4215 Thats what I bought most recently. Caught on sale used $11. Mounted to a used hospital table. On wheels, adjusts vertical, horizontal & forward & back. Plus my office chair qill fit under. Not the perfect setup but under 100$ & I CAN SEE MY MONITOR without a bunch of extra software

[@hilaryweiner893]

Maha, I didn't know about the docked magnifier, which seems like it would be useful. Another Windows setting for inverting colors is [ctrl] [windows] [c]. For me it is a lot faster than going into settings.

[@legallyblind4215]

Thanks, Hilary! Yeah, I use the docked magnifier most of the time, except with websites or software that for some reason fails to display full pages when it's turned on. In these cases, I switch to full screen! And thanks for the tip, I'll try that shortcut!

[@chillout2792]

Thanks so much 😊

[@legallyblind4215]

You're welcome!

[@celpaz4584]

This is very helpful

[@angelaalbertelli2838]

I am a teacher for the visually impaired and I too am looking for something that will just read selected text. I know speechify has a feature that is similar but it is costly.

[@thomasgrace3846]

Thank you.

[@chrisfitzchrisfitz5182]

On IOS it’s just called Accessibility. This will get you to all of the access option, which includes VoiceOver(text to speech).

[@zabdiel74]

God bless you it was helpfull

[@legallyblind4215]

You're most welcome!

[@elaineporter9341]

Thank you!!