Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple

Chapter 19. Working with Accessibility settings

In this section:

• Switching from a right-handed to left-handed mouse

• Adjusting double-click speed and indicator motion

• Adjusting keyboard settings

• Enabling High Contrast

• Letting Windows suggest Ease of Access settings

• Using Magnifier

• Using Narrator

• Working with speech recognition

To provide input to your computer, you use a mouse, touchpad, keyboard, or your fingers on a touchscreen. You can make input easier if you have minor hearing, vision, or dexterity challenges by reconfiguring a variety of settings in Windows 8.1. These options are universal to virtually all computing devices and have been addressed elsewhere in this book; you can almost always turn up the volume, change the screen resolution, and make ...