Advice for user with impaired vision

[Colin Law]

On 2 October 2017 at 14:37, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 30.09.2017, 20:55 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
>> 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.
>
> since nobody mentioned it in the thread yet:
>
> http://vinuxproject.org/
>
> is a project that has always worked very closely with Ubuntu to get
> accessibility features (especially for blind and partially sighted
> users) into ubuntu... they are/used to be very active on the ubuntu-
> accessibility mailing list and used to base on LTS releases for their
> own images ...
>
> i dont know if they plan for an 18.04 release though ... but it is
> probably worth to ask on the ubuntu-a11y list nontheless ...

Thanks Oli, I did not know about vinux

Colin

>
> ciao
>         oli
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