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The Accessibility Options component comes with Windows 98. While it is loaded automatically onto your computer during Windows 98 Setup, you'll need to install it before you can access the Accessibility Options. Once installed, you can access it any time you want.
The two features of this component are the Accessibility Wizard and the Magnifier.
What is the Accessibility Wizard ?
The Accessibility Wizard makes it easy for you to set up accessibility options for your vision, hearing, and mobility needs. It also helps network administrators set accessibility options for more than one computer and/or user.
Like other Microsoft wizards, you are guided through several "pages" in which you answer questions about which options you prefer. Based on your answers, Windows 98 makes the adjustments you've selected.
What is the Magnifier?
The Magnifier displays an enlarged section of your screen in a separate window. When the Magnifier is on, the magnified area is merely a display and not itself an active area of the screen. The active focus for cursor, keyboard, and other input devices is always in the unmagnified area.
Note The Magnifier is not intended to be a replacement for full-featured magnifiers. For a partial list of Windows-based magnification utilities, see
http://www.microsoft.com/enable.
Step-by-Step: Installing Accessibility Options - If you installed Windows 98 with a compact disc, you will be prompted to insert it into your computer. Following the installation, you will be asked to restart your computer. You should shut down any programs you have open (except Windows 98) before beginning this procedure.
ON THE START MENU:
- Point to Settings
- Click Control Panel
Or Display the Start menu by pressing Ctrl +Esc (or the Windows logo key).
Move to Settings by pressing S.
Select Control Panel by pressing C.
- In Control Panel: Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon
Or In Control Panel: Press TAB to move the focus to an icon.
Move to the Add/Remove Programs icon by using the arrow keys and press ENTER.
Add/Remove Programs Properties Dialog Box
In the Add/Remove Programs dialog box:
- Click the Windows Setup tab.
Or In the Add/Remove Programs dialog box, to move to the Window Setup tab: Press Shift+Tab.
Press the Right Arrow key.
In the Windows Setup dialog box:
- Click the Accessibility check box.
Or In the Windows Setup dialog box: Select Accessibility by pressing Tab + A.
- To select the check box, press Spacebar
Or Press Enter
In the Systems Settings Change dialog box,
- click Yes to restart your computer.
Or In the Systems Settings Change dialog box, press Enter to restart your computer.
Putting the Accessibility Wizard to use - The Accessibility Wizard groups accessibility features in categories designed to help people with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments. A fourth option helps network administrators set accessibility options for many computers and/or for more than one user on one computer.
How to use the Accessibilty
The Accessibility Wizard will step you through several pages that enable you to set the accessibility options you want. To use the wizard, you must first select the text size you are most comfortable reading. Then you select from among the four options.
Regardless of which options you choose, you must work through the wizard from the
beginning. Once you have selected a category, you will see only those pages that relate to the type of disability—or disabilities—you have selected. Or, you may see only the pages for administrative options.
Step-by-Step: Starting and Using the Accessibility Wizard
- On the Start menu: Click Programs.
- Click Accessories.
- Click Accessibility.
- Click Accessibility Wizard
Or display the Start menu by pressing Ctrl + Esc (or the Windows logo key).
Move to Programs by pressing P. Move to Accessories by pressing the Up Arrow or Down Arrow key. Press Enter.
Move to Accessibility, then press Enter
Move to Accessibility Wizard, then press Enter
- On the Welcome to Accessibility Wizard page: Click the smallest text you can read or by using the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys
- Click Next or press N
On the Text Size page, the Change the font size check box should already be selected. If it is not selected, click this option or press C.
- If you want to use Microsoft Magnifier, click that option or press U.
- Click Next or Press N.
- On the Set Wizard Options page: Click the statements that apply to you or by pressing the appropriate letter(s):
- Click Next.
- For I am blind or have difficulty seeing things on screen, press L.
- For I am deaf or have difficulty hearing sounds from the computer, press D.
- For I have difficulty using the keyboard or mouse, press K.
- For I want to set administrative options, press A.
- When you are finished, press N.
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