SCREEN MAGNIFICATION – MY WAY, MY COMPUTER, MY REMOTE
ACCESS!
Presenter(s)
Tyler Brown
Freedom Scientific
St. Petersburg
Day Phone: 727-803-8000 ext 1160
Email: TylerB@FreedomScientific.com
Presenter #2
Dusty Voorhees
Freedom Scientific
St. Petersburg
Day Phone: 727-803-8000 ext 1021
Fax: 727-803-8001
Email: DustyV@FreedomScientific.com
This presentation will highlight the powerful visual and auditory features
of Freedom Scientific's MAGic Screen Magnification. Focus will be placed on
user customization and remote access.
This presentation will highlight the powerful visual and auditory features
of Freedom Scientific's MAGic Screen Magnification. Focus will be placed on
user customization and remote access.
The key to a great magnification product is simplicity with options. MAGic
Screen Magnification offers a simple user interface coupled with the most compelling
customization features on the market today. This session will provide an
overview of the many powerful visual and auditory features in MAGic. Focus will
then shift to customizing MAGic to meet each user’s individual needs. The
session will end with a demonstration of remote access.
MAGic provides a wide range of visual features designed around making the
screen readable, improving screen contrast, eliminating problem colors, and
tracking screen information. The session will cover the visual enhancements
that allow users to effectively utilize their computer by improving
productivity and increasing eye endurance.
Color enhancements are the easiest way to improve screen contrast and limit
eye fatigue. Attendees will learn about features that allow trainers and users
to tweak the screen by blending or using exclusively features ranging from
brightness adjustment to color tinting and color replacement. Participants will
see how easy it is to save different configurations as schemes .They will also
learn how to use different schemes for different applications and transfer the
schemes to other computers.
Tracking the movement of the mouse pointer and cursor as they move around
the screen can be problematic for many users. This demonstration will show how
to change the colorization of both the mouse pointer and cursor. Attendees will
also learn how to apply variable enhancements that can be displayed around the
mouse pointer and cursor to make them more noticeable.
While screen readers need to tell users a lot of detail about what is on
the screen, many low vision users only want the minimum amount of audible
information needed to compliment what they are seeing. MAGic’s new verbosity
settings allow users to make a wide variety of adjustments to the information
that is spoken. They can even replace spoken text with sounds to provide
quicker and less distracting feedback. Verbosity schemes allow users to set up
a variety of configurations that can be used in different applications to
accomplish similar purposes, such as proofreading documents or reading for
recreation.
MAGic’s speech capability has now been expanded to allow the active voice
to indicate where the speech is originating from. Users can designate different
voices for reading, mouse speech, menus and dialogs, and more, giving them the
ability to recognize audibly when a dialog box appears or other event occurs.
Users can create voice schemes with different variations for when they need to
“speed read” a document, proofread a document, or receive an email in one of
the other languages they speak.
One of the newest features of MAGic is the ability to have application
specific settings. We will demonstrate how to tweak settings to match the needs
of the current application and then save those settings so they are
automatically activated whenever the user switches to that application.
The session will finish with a demonstration of using MAGic remote access
to run MAGic when working remotely on a computer. During a remote session, you
can use programs on the server just as if the were running on your own
computer.
At the end of this session, attendees will understand the benefits of using
MAGic’s visual and auditory features to access their computer applications.
They should be familiar with the features of MAGic and understand the
customization options available for meeting their individual needs.
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