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Configuring Your Mac for Special Needs Users

 
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Your Mac comes with features designed for users with special needs. Users with vision difficulties can enlarge the image on the screen, and those with hearing difficulties can set the screen to flash instead of playing an alert sound, for example. These and other features for keyboard control and mouse movement are available in the Universal Access pane of System Preferences.
 
You can also turn on the Spoken User Interface feature. When this feature is enabled, Mac OS X will speak the text below your pointer. You’ll hear the names of buttons, menu items, and more. Mac OS X will even read you a block of selected text—or an email message.

 


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