Droid X: The Missing Manual

Accessibility

If you or someone who uses the phone has vision problems or limitations, here’s where you can choose options to make the phone easier to use:

• Accessibility. To use either of the two accessibility services, you need to first turn on this box.

• Voice Readouts. Helps those with vision problems navigate through the Droid X and launch apps. It reads out actions you take, and then reads the options available to you. When using the Screen Reader, the Droid X does things differently than normal. For example, tapping an app’s icon doesn’t launch the app. Instead, the icon turns red, and the screen reader reads the app’s name. To launch the app, double-click it. The screen reader doesn’t read actual contents to you—for example, it won’t read you the contents of an email message.

• Zoom Mode. Tap this option, and a box appears that magnifies anything on the screen. Move it around the screen to magnify text and pictures. You can change the magnification level by tapping the + or – signs.

  
  

• Power button ends call. Turn on this option, and when you’re on a call, you can end it by pressing the Power/Lock key. The screen won’t be turned off as it is normally.