Questions tagged [accessibility]
Features built into software or a device to allow the greatest number of users to operate them, especially features for people with disabilities. This can also be the extent to which a program or device is accessible.
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Edge - change available colors for tab groups
As you may know, Edge has a feature to create tab groups. Each tab group can contain n tabs.
According to this question "How to change the tab group colours?" there is no official option to ...
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How do I track down what is turning on "Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts"?
This is the setting. This screen is accessed by systempropertiesperformance.exe. This setting needs to be unset for accessability reasons. Every half hour or so, something sets it again. It's not ...
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sticky/persistent xterm menus
Is there a way to keep xterm menus in a way that is minimally accessible for users with disabilities? I know I could override every single action accessed via the menus to brand new keyboard shortcuts,...
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How to copy focused link in Firefox on Linux?
I have motor problems with my right hand, and so I drive my GUIs mostly with the keyboard.
Using the pointer (either mouse or any substitute) is not impossible, but slow and hard.
One of the things I ...
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Is there a quicker way to toggle Windows sticky keys?
I am looking for a quicker way to toggle sticky keys than having to press the shift key 5 times each time.
Maybe some setting somewhere that allows defining a different activation hotkey?
Or perhaps ...
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How do I customize the window bar color in Windows 10 when high contrast mode is active?
I have high contrast mode turned on in Windows 10. But I don't like the blue and purple window bar color. How can I change it? Is it possible by editing the registry or what?
See the screenshot below:
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How to flip the mouse cursor in VS Code when hovering over the line number/gutter?
I'd like to have the mouse cursor horizontally flipped/mirrored when hovering over the line number in VS Code on Windows. Editors like Notepad++ and full Visual Studio do this, and it helps usability ...
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How to turn off Windows 11 "Live Captions" (video to text)
When I play a YouTube video, something like this pop's up (turning the speech of the video into text or "captions" as they seem to call it. (I wouldn't call it captions, because captions ...
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Destructive cropping of text outside of view in PDF(after crop by BRISS) for conversion to epub [closed]
I have vision issues and read eBooks with TTS. But a lot of eBooks are only available in PDF format and PDFs are awful when you convert them to ePub because of headers and footers.
Then I found a FOSS ...
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zoom accessibility issue navigate Participants panel to open More button for selecting Clear All Feedback
Is it just me or does the zoom app really not support the Tab key for navigating outside the active focused Participants panel?
To reach the buttons underneath i.e. "More" button to select ...
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Windows 10 one-hand Shift-mouse drag?
I am one-handed. In Windows-10 Often I need to perform Shift-mouse-drag or Ctrl-mouse-drag (click) When it comes to capital letters, I can stretch my fingers over the keyboard, but not with a precise ...
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How to tag and add alt-text to a PDF without Adobe Acobat
I am a student who has to create accessible PDFs by tagging and adding alt-text to all images. The way this is supposed to be done is by using Adobe Acrobat Pro. I do not have access to this without ...
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Is there a way to tag page headers and footers when saving a Word doc as a PDF?
My question:
Is there an automated way to add the header and footer tags without requiring document editors to do this manually in Adobe Acrobat? This needs to be scalable across hundreds if not ...
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Windows exe program work in safe mode but error in normal (access, permissions error)
I have installed the program "VMS" needed to configure the IP camera. When I run shortcut, program does not reacting at all. But after several attempts to run, an error appears.
Windows ...
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Windows 10 virtual keyboard disappears from login screen when password box is visible
I have a Windows 10 laptop with several bad keys, and have to use the On-Screen Keyboard to log in and do other stuff. I keep the virtual keyboard app running at all times. However, the virtual ...
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