For Seniors: How to Modify How Your Computer Keyboard Works
If your hands are stiff with age or you have carpal tunnel problems, you may want to consider modifying how your computer keyboard works. You can turn on features that let you control your mouse through [more…]
For Seniors: How to Use Your Computer’s On-Screen Keyboard Feature
Clicking keys with your mouse may be easier for some people than using a regular keyboard. If you fall into that group, then you’ll want to use your computer’s on-screen keyboard feature. [more…]
For Seniors: How to Change Your Computer Mouse Settings
If you have arthritis or carpal tunnel, using your computer mouse may cause pain. Fortunately, you can change your settings to make your computer mouse behave how you want. To avoid having to click your [more…]
For Seniors: How to Optimize Your Computer Screen for Visibility
If you have visual challenges, you can customize Windows to fit your needs. You can set up Windows to use higher screen contrast to make things easier to see, read descriptions to you rather than make [more…]
For Seniors: How to Replace Sounds on Your Computer with Visual Cues
Sometimes Windows alerts you to events with sounds. If you have hearing challenges, you may prefer that your computer give you visual cues instead of sound cues. Visual cues are useful if you are hard [more…]
For Seniors: How to Set Up Speech Recognition on Your Computer
If you have dexterity challenges from a condition such as arthritis, you may prefer to speak commands, using a technology called speech recognition, rather than type them. All you need to do is attach [more…]
For Seniors: Make Your Laptop Touchpad Easier to Use
Laptops come with a touchpad instead of a mouse, and the touchpads take some getting used to. In place of the touchpad, Windows 7 allows you to use the numeric keypad to move the mouse from time to time [more…]
For Seniors: Improve Visibility on a Windows Laptop
If you're visually challenged, using a laptop's smaller screen is often difficult. Luckily, Windows provides tools to improve usability for those with visual disabilities, such as increasing screen contrast [more…]
For Seniors: Replace Windows Sounds with Visual Cues
Instead of alerting you to events using sounds, the hearing challenged can have Windows 7 provide visual cues. For the hearing impaired, Windows can provide a strong visual cue rather than a ringing or [more…]
For Seniors: Make Text on Your Laptop Larger
With today's high-resolution monitors, images are crisp but text is small. If you have difficulty reading text and other items on your monitor, you can make them larger. If you use an older monitor, or [more…]
For Seniors: Set Up Speech Recognition on a Laptop
If typing is challenging on your laptop, you can set up Windows for speech recognition and speak commands instead. While setting up Speech Recognition on your laptop, you train Windows to understand your [more…]
For Seniors: Make Your Laptop Keyboard Easier to Use
Laptop keyboards are often difficult to type on. Through its Ease of Access Center, Windows 7 lets you modify how you interact with your keyboard, in order to make it easier to avoid problems such as accidental [more…]
For Seniors: Display a Laptop's Onscreen Keyboard
Through its Ease of Access Center, Windows offers an onscreen keyboard you use in place of a laptop's smaller physical keyboard. Click the onscreen keyboard's [more…]
For Seniors: Adjust a Laptop's Keyboard Repeat Rates
Laptop keyboards are often difficult to type on. Windows 7 lets you modify how you interact with your keyboard, making it easier to avoid problems such as accidental or multiple keypresses. If you have [more…]
