Accessibility at 1024 x768

[B]

Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution, made evident with annoying pop-
ups that occur no matter what the Operating system.
When I try to run at the recommended resolution, using
acccessibility display settings, extra large fonts,icons,
there is really nothing that makes viewing comfortable,
the Display Properties panel, to begin with only occupies
1/5th of the screen. There is an un-certified driver for
the display from Nec and its .icm file causes an error in
any attempt to set it as default, so I leave the monitor
define at Xp default of plug and play with no color
profile.
My 59 year old eyes were never good to begin with and I'm
wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?

Thanks in advance from anyone who has been here,
From "B" for going Blind.

 

[mikey]

under display settings advanced tab and then settings button select the LARGE font.
then using accessibility wizard select the use large fonts for menus (2nd item.
works even with tri-focals



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Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution, made evident with annoying pop-
ups that occur no matter what the Operating system.
When I try to run at the recommended resolution, using
acccessibility display settings, extra large fonts,icons,
there is really nothing that makes viewing comfortable,
the Display Properties panel, to begin with only occupies
1/5th of the screen. There is an un-certified driver for
the display from Nec and its .icm file causes an error in
any attempt to set it as default, so I leave the monitor
define at Xp default of plug and play with no color
profile.
My 59 year old eyes were never good to begin with and I'm
wondering if the only solution here if I'm to stay with
Microsoft is to buy a whacking great screen?

Thanks in advance from anyone who has been here,
From "B" for going Blind.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Xp Home, my display is a Nec Multisync Lcd 1530V, which
wants 1024x768 resolution, made evident with annoying pop-
ups that occur no matter what the Operating system.
When I try to run at the recommended resolution, using
acccessibility display settings, extra large fonts,icons,
there is really nothing that makes viewing comfortable,
the Display Properties panel, to begin with only occupies
1/5th of the screen.

Go to Display - Settings, click Advanced, and set the DPI value up: use
Custom, and try 125 % initially, or even more, up to 200%. This will
increase the size of all such dialog objects, font sizes and so on. If
you want then to have a true WYSYWIG appearance in an application, like
Word, you will need to set its Zoom to correspondingly less than 100%