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the eyes. You can choose a canned color scheme, and even edit it (tap a

color swatch to change it).

The High Contrast #1 color scheme recalls the first personal computer
displays, heavy on the bright yellow and Army green. High Contrast #2
throws in a few Windows blues; High Contrast Black offers bright-white

text; and High Contrast White flips your screen back to a white background
with black text.

Narrator

Narrator is a screen reader, a digitized voice that reads everything on the
screen, which is essential if you’re blind. These settings customize its voice,
inflection, and talkiness. See Figure 8-38.

Audio

If you have trouble hearing, you may find real value in these options:

Change device volume. Yet another place to raise your PC’s
speaker volume.

Change the device or app volume. Opens the Sound panel
(Figure 7-2).

Change other sound settings. Opens the Sound pane of the
ancient Control Panel (Figure 7-12).

Turn on mono audio is intended for people with hearing loss in
one ear. This way, you won’t miss any of the musical mix just
because you’re listening through only one headphone.

Select how visual alerts for notifications are displayed. If you
have trouble hearing, or if your roommate tends to play heavy
metal at top volume when you’re trying to work, you might not

hear the little beeps or chimes that Windows plays to get your
attention. This drop-down menu lets you opt to add a visual cue,

like a flash of the title bar, window, or the whole screen. Not a bad