[users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-06 Thread Jeff Wandling
My son, just 4 is a frequent user of the computer. He uses notepad to type. As he gets older I will show him OpenOffice. His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help people with vision impairments? Eg., very very large fonts in the UI or some aid in magnifying the d

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-06 Thread George Wolf
Jeff Wandling wrote: ... What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help people with vision impairments? Eg., very very large fonts in the UI or some aid in magnifying the display selectively? Thanks, -jeff OpenOffice.org allows infinite zoom of the visible text size by selecting View/Zo

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathon
Jeff wrote: > His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help > people with vision impairments? It depends upon the operating system that he uses, and then the screen reading software, and/or magnification software that he uses. OOo does include the ability magnify the d

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-07 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Saturday 06 January 2007 22:39, Jonathon wrote: > Jeff wrote: > > His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help > > people with vision impairments? > > It depends upon the operating system that he uses, and then the screen > reading software, and/or magnification softw

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-08 Thread George Wolf
Andy Pepperdine wrote: There is a limited amount of flexibility under Tools -> Options -> Openoffice.org ->View, including scaling of the UI font size and changes to the icons used, but I've looked at it only very briefly now. In that menu, you can indeed change both the font and the text size.

Re: [users] features to assist vision impaired

2007-01-08 Thread CPHennessy
On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:56, + Jeff Wandling wrote: > My son, just 4 is a frequent user of the computer. > > He uses notepad to type. As he gets older I will show him OpenOffice. > > His vision is impaired. What functionality exists in OpenOffice to help > people with vision impairments? >