That story was wonderful. I am having terrible eye problems and am going blind. For me to be able to read something I have to email my subscription to my self and enlarge the print size to 18, and then I can read it with ease. I had to cut/copy and read the story about the user who wanted an upgrade. If anyone else needs an upgrade, let me know. I am letting my subscription lapse as I don't know how much longer I will be able to see.
I hope she stays happy, and remembers that she did the right thing, for her and for her son.
To Sue in Bremerton:
There is a way -- a free way -- to be able to read mail and browse websites when failing vision requires enlarged size on the fonts: The open source Mozilla community makes available their SeaMonkey combined suite for both e-mail and web browsing. If the font is too small, a simple CTRL + (plus sign key) will enlarge the font; the more you use the key combination, the larger the font gets ... and it can be very VERY large == ten characters wide on my screen.
Equally nice is the fact that someone with better sight can use CTRL - (minus key) to reduce the size of the print; it gets smaller with each key combination. So that way both the visually handicapped and those of us who simply need glasses can use the same software without any major problems.
The only major complaint I've seen voiced on the text enlarge feature is the fact that reading e-mail can be made bigger, but when one goes to compose e-mail/reply, the font doesn't get bigger; maybe that will be a possibility in the future.
If you are more used to Internet Explorer and the microsoft mail client -- rather than Netscape style footprint SeaMonkey has maintained -- there are free open source packages for you on the Mozilla site also: Firefox and Thunderbird parallel the behavior and menu/hotkeys structure of the Microsoft programs, usually with fewer bugs, greater security, and better grades when it comes to user friendliness.
Most of us know someone who is more comfortable with larger fonts, or who wants to squeeze more onto a monitor screen. So check out what Mozilla offers, and if you like what you find you can pass the info on to someone you know who might benefit.
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Here's the Seamonkey site. I run the Firefox browser most of the time, and it has the Ctrl+/Ctrl- font size change built in too. -rc
Sue, going blind is certainly a terrible fate, but it doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying "True". There is a kind of Software that is called text-to-speech or speech synthesis which is able to "read" your emails (and other texts) aloud for you. For Windows XP such a software is even installed with the system. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902 for details. For other operating systems, free software is available on the internet. Just search the web for it.
All the best to you!
Thank you so much LD and Ulrich. I had no idea it could be such a simple fix. I shall resubscribe for myself then. Awesome~
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That story was wonderful. I am having terrible eye problems and am going blind. For me to be able to read something I have to email my subscription to my self and enlarge the print size to 18, and then I can read it with ease. I had to cut/copy and read the story about the user who wanted an upgrade. If anyone else needs an upgrade, let me know. I am letting my subscription lapse as I don't know how much longer I will be able to see.
I hope she stays happy, and remembers that she did the right thing, for her and for her son.
Posted by: Sue in Bremerton WA | March 17, 2008 10:34 PM
To Sue in Bremerton:
There is a way -- a free way -- to be able to read mail and browse websites when failing vision requires enlarged size on the fonts: The open source Mozilla community makes available their SeaMonkey combined suite for both e-mail and web browsing. If the font is too small, a simple CTRL + (plus sign key) will enlarge the font; the more you use the key combination, the larger the font gets ... and it can be very VERY large == ten characters wide on my screen.
Equally nice is the fact that someone with better sight can use CTRL - (minus key) to reduce the size of the print; it gets smaller with each key combination. So that way both the visually handicapped and those of us who simply need glasses can use the same software without any major problems.
The only major complaint I've seen voiced on the text enlarge feature is the fact that reading e-mail can be made bigger, but when one goes to compose e-mail/reply, the font doesn't get bigger; maybe that will be a possibility in the future.
If you are more used to Internet Explorer and the microsoft mail client -- rather than Netscape style footprint SeaMonkey has maintained -- there are free open source packages for you on the Mozilla site also: Firefox and Thunderbird parallel the behavior and menu/hotkeys structure of the Microsoft programs, usually with fewer bugs, greater security, and better grades when it comes to user friendliness.
Most of us know someone who is more comfortable with larger fonts, or who wants to squeeze more onto a monitor screen. So check out what Mozilla offers, and if you like what you find you can pass the info on to someone you know who might benefit.
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Here's the Seamonkey site. I run the Firefox browser most of the time, and it has the Ctrl+/Ctrl- font size change built in too. -rc
Posted by: LD Ohio | March 18, 2008 3:48 PM
Sue, going blind is certainly a terrible fate, but it doesn't mean you have to stop enjoying "True". There is a kind of Software that is called text-to-speech or speech synthesis which is able to "read" your emails (and other texts) aloud for you. For Windows XP such a software is even installed with the system. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902 for details. For other operating systems, free software is available on the internet. Just search the web for it.
All the best to you!
Posted by: Ulrich in Stuttgart, Germany | March 19, 2008 12:07 AM
Thank you so much LD and Ulrich. I had no idea it could be such a simple fix. I shall resubscribe for myself then. Awesome~
Posted by: Sue in Bremerton WA | March 19, 2008 12:08 PM
Read the article that everyone's commenting on, or post a comment about it.