Low Vision

Hi there. Just thought I would pass a tip on to you that can increase a web pages’ font size easily. The trick is the browser that you use. The tool is already on your keyboard in the form of a plus and minus sign. (I got this tip from a friend who knows a lot about computers). If you use the browser called OPERA, which is a free browser, you will be able to quickly increase the font size for easier reading. Opera is a great browser as it has lots of options that make it easy for you to click on your favorite sites. Each new tab loads with a page called “Speed Dial” which has a menu of your top nine web destinations. You pick the nine sites on the Speed Dial page – for instance your home page, MSN, Google, etc.When you go to any web page the trick with the instant font change is to click on a clear spot on the page that is “not” a text box (for instance don’t click in a seach box) and then hit the plus sign (in the numbers section on the right side of the keyboard) to increase the font size – or minus sign to decrease the font size. So go to www.opera.com and download the browser to try out. It allows you to easily control the font size on any web page! I also tried it with Internet Explorer but I couldn’t get this tip to work with it.

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Experiment with this – try it first with the browser you normally use and if it doesn’t work in that browser give Opera a try. You can always use more than one browser on your computer to access the internet.