i am almost blind and windows 10 is not blind friendly windows 7 was fantastic for us blind people could you add bold text feature or made the display and personalization settings like windows 7? since the change from 7 to 10 on january 14th i am having a very hard time using my computer the magnyfier on the computer is not good it takes up to much of the screen plus you only see a small amount and moving it back and forth trying to read makes me dizzy with 7 i could use the computer just fine with no problems at all things in my folders are so light and small if i adjust the size to much it makes games way to big so there is no reaching a happy medium i have to struggle with a hand held magnifying glass which is a strain on the eyes will you please give 10 more blind feathers like 7? thank you

As a low vision individual, I've used the magnifier since the days of XP where I had to open the command box and type "magnify". I do like the newer "Windows-+" hotkey, but I wanted to suggest a way I use in other Operating systems. I use the Gnome desktop in Linux almost exclusively because the zoom feature allows me to designate a hotkey and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. It allows for quicker access and makes it easier to vary the zoom level. Hotkey+wheel up zooms in level by level and hotkey-wheel down scrools back out. It is so intuitive that I don't think about it anymore and actually find windows cumbersome when I have to go back to the static hotkey option.

Also, I'm going to bring an old desktop of mine back to life this weekend (its been dead for a few years). It had windows 7 previously, but I was wondering if I could make use of the free accessability upgrade to 10 that I'd seen in the past. Thanks!
Matt B.
Austin Texas

After Windows is installed, the Cortana experience guides someone through setting up Windows for the first time. Unfortunately, Narrator is unable to speak while Cortana is speaking. It is necessary to wait for a pause in the Cortana dialogue to use Narrator. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable and should be changed ASAP! Narrator should always take priority over anything else because it is a vital accessibility service.

If Cortana is jabbering away, enabling Narrator or using any command should immediately silence it and let Narrator take over. Cortana is not an accessibility service, so I truly do not understand why it is taking priority over something as vital as Narrator.

Any chance of getting this for Android phones? My daughter has MS and is doing her best to raise 4 boys ranging in age from 9 to 14. This would be wonderful for her to use in order to take the bus, go shopping, or read items from their schools. She relies on her 14 year old twins, but they're not always with her when they're in school. I'd be willing to beta test anything to help. It would be wonderful to help her "see" the world around her.

Also, I agree with the suggestion to have the camera mounted. Kim recently dropped an entire pot of boiling water on herself, because she didn't realize she wasn't putting it on the counter. A small camera mounted on her glasses would have told her she wasn't there yet.

I am raising this issue for a colleague. Please get in touch if you would like to get screenshots and discuss further.

· I am using Windows 10

• with 31 inch monitor. 

• The current display settings is set to 350% for accessibility reasons. 

• Under ease of access’, ‘make text bigger’ I set text size to ‘225%’.

Issues:

1. In File explorer, when I select the (preferred) view option to either ‘list’ or ‘details’, the text, whilst large enough, is bunched and cropped height wise, making it quite difficult to read and distinguish. Unfortunately, the other view options (medium, large and extra-large icons, ‘content’ or ‘tiles’) do not work, as the icons are either too large for the screen, the text is large and wraps truncating major part of the file name. 

2. The folders and files are grouped into columns across the page rather than one continuous set of rows down the page (preferred). Therefore, this only leaves the ‘small icons’ option, which, whilst not ideal, is the best option available at the moment. The main downside with this is that the name of the folder or file does not show in full (i.e. there is no scroll bar at the bottom to use to scroll to the right – the only way around it seems to be to right mouse click on the name and select ‘rename’ – this brings it up in full, but is a bit slow and cumbersome to use to be quite honest).

3. There does not appear to be a way to remove the preview or details pane on the right hand side of the page/screen.

While the font size of the folder and file names is good, they are far too small for the menu item names at the very top of the page. Given I have the ‘CBB’ version of Windows 10, are there any settings that I could apply to get around this? (This discrepancy in font sizes carries through to other aspects, such as subject, date, time and sender information in e-mails, menu fonts in Outlook 2013, icon sizes at the bottom of my screen, and in applications, such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. This matter has been raised in a separate ticket with Microsoft.)

I understand that making a DEB Package is downright frustrating and discouraging , when big companies are told about Linux , they go straight to making DEB Packages but there are very easy ways to port to Linux .

If you just create a working Tarball made inside a Linux Environment and send it to the major Repository Maintainers , they can do the rest .

The Major Repository Maintainers in the Linux World are openSUSE , Arch , Red Hat Enterprise , Linux Mint , Mageia , Debian , Solus and Ubuntu .

If you want to reach out to the Solaris World , you only have to send a Working Tarball to openIndiana and if you want to reach the BSD World , you only have to send a Working Tarball to FreeBSD .

Because of Web Apps , I have Skype , Microsoft Tasks , Microsoft To Do , Outlook , Bing and Microsoft Contacts "installed" on Ubuntu , but there is only so much Web Apps can do . I would love to use Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Photos too .