Charlie Owen - Accessibility http://blog.retrosight.com/ Charlie Owen en-us Charlie Owen Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:40:50 GMT newtelligence dasBlog 2.3.9074.18820 charlie_owen@hotmail.com charlie_owen@hotmail.com http://blog.retrosight.com/Trackback.aspx?guid=fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873 http://blog.retrosight.com/pingback.aspx http://blog.retrosight.com/PermaLink,guid,fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873.aspx Charlie Owen http://blog.retrosight.com/CommentView,guid,fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873.aspx http://blog.retrosight.com/SyndicationService.asmx/GetEntryCommentsRss?guid=fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873 1

Accessibility is pretty important to us, and we want to make Windows Media Center easy to use for visually impaired folks. The default experience in Windows Media Center makes your digital media much more accessible to start with compared to Windows Media Player, iTunes or Zune -- because everything is bigger (your album art, the text, selectable items, etc.). There are some high contrast accessibility features you can turn on which make it even easier to read and navigate Windows Media Center if you are vision impaired. Get to them via Tasks > Settings > General > Visual and Sound Effects > Color Scheme. Here is what they look like.

High Contrast - White

High Contrast Black

Mailbag: Will you make it so you don't necessarily need glasses or perfect vision to see most of the visual elements? http://blog.retrosight.com/PermaLink,guid,fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873.aspx http://blog.retrosight.com/MailbagWillYouMakeItSoYouDontNecessarilyNeedGlassesOrPerfectVisionToSeeMostOfTheVisualElements.aspx Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:40:50 GMT <p> <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/03/10/windows-vista-accessibility-options/">Accessibility is pretty important</a> to us, and we want to make Windows Media Center easy to use for visually impaired folks. The default experience in Windows Media Center makes your&nbsp;digital media much more accessible to start with compared to Windows Media Player, iTunes or Zune -- because everything is bigger (your album art, the text, selectable items, etc.). There are some high contrast accessibility features you can turn on which make it even easier to read and navigate Windows Media Center if you are vision impaired. Get to them via Tasks &gt; Settings &gt; General &gt; Visual and Sound Effects &gt; Color Scheme. Here is what they look like. </p> <p> High Contrast - White </p> <p> <img src="http://blog.retrosight.com/content/binary/HighContrastWhite.png" border=0> </p> <p> High Contrast Black </p> <p> <img src="http://blog.retrosight.com/content/binary/HighContrastBlack.png" border=0> </p> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://blog.retrosight.com/aggbug.ashx?id=fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873" /> http://blog.retrosight.com/CommentView,guid,fdd674e1-a927-462b-beec-864ca96f1873.aspx Mailbag Windows Media Center Accessibility