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macOS user accesibility features

macOS user accesibility features

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macOS user accesibility features

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All right, let's talk about Mac OS accessibility features and how to use them. Now these are very similar to what we talked about in Windows, but a little bit different and how you get to them just a little bit different. Let's take a look. So let's talk about some vision impairment accessibility features that Mac has. One is that they have something called VoiceOver, which is pretty cool because you can actually turn it on, and as you click on things, or hover over things, or maneuver your keyboard over different options, it will provide spoken word right over the top of it. It will also use braille descriptions of items that are on the screen, which is really powerful for those who have vision impairments. The other thing that's really cool is that there's a zoom function, and for me in my mid-40s, I'm going to tell you that I've been using that quite a lot lately, being able to see some of the words a little bit bigger maybe and read some diagrams a little bit bigger. But yes, Zoom…

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