Advice for user with impaired vision

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:14:01 -0600 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 09/30/2017 01:55 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> > I am looking for suggestions to help a friend who has poor vision to
> > use his computer.  Obviously I can make the text and icons larger but
> > I wonder whether anyone can offer any other advice or any tools that
> > might help further. His vision is not so poor that he needs a text to
> > speech screen reader.
> > 
> > Colin
> 
> One thing that helped me a lot waiting for cataract surgery was 
> turning on a feature that enabled "mouse trails" -- a series of 
> mouse pointer images left behind the mouse as it moves and that 
> fade out quickly.  Without that I could never see where the mouse 
> pointer was.
> 
> Unfortunately, that was on Windows I think.  I don't see anything 
> in my Xfce4 accessibility settings that looks like it.  But maybe
> other desktop suites offer it or it is available as an add-on.

There used to be a X11 "utility" that featured a "cat" that chased after the 
mouse pointer.  It might exist somewhere as old X11 utility somewhere.  It is 
likely to still be buildable.

> 
> 
> 

-- 
Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
http://www.deepsoft.com/  -- Linux Administration Services
heller at deepsoft.com       -- Webhosting Services