✓ Set Up High Contrast: Turns on and off High Contrast, which displays all Windows elements in very high contrasting colors. ✓ Start Narrator: Turns on and off the Narrator feature, which reads aloud the names of each key you press, all system messages and onscreen messages that you receive, as well as all menu and toolbar options you select with the mouse.

The Input PC Panel enables you to make keyboard entries via written inputs with the mouse or a special pen tablet connected to your PC or directly on the screen of a Tablet PC running Windows 7. Don't confuse this On-Screen Keyboard window with the Input PC Panel. The On-Screen Keyboard enables you to make text entries by clicking its keys to input letters, numbers, and punctuation, plus the accelerator keys (Shift, Ctrl, and Alt), function keys (F1 through F12), and cursor keys (Tab, Home, End, T, i, and so on). ✓ Start On-Screen Keyboard: Turns on and off the display of the On-Screen Keyboard. Use the settings in the Microsoft Screen Magnify dialog box that appears when you first turn on this feature to control various settings, including whether the Screen Magnify window appears full screen at startup and assigning a new magnification factor (which is 2x by default). ✓ Start Magnifier: Turns on and off the Microsoft Screen Magnify window that shows each element of the screen magnified many times. The Quick Access to Common Tools section of this window contains the following check box options in two columns:

The controls in this window enable you to change a number of keyboard, sound, display, and mouse settings that can make using the computer easier if you have less-than-perfect physical dexterity. When you click the Ease of Access Center link, the Ease of Access Center Control Panel window, shown in Figure 5-12, appears.

(See 'Speech Recognition' in Part 4 for details). ✓ Speech Recognition, which leads to a Configure Your Speech Recognition Experience window, where you can set up speech recognition on your computer so that you can issue voice commands as well as dictate text in Windows application programs. ✓ Ease of Access Center, which leads to an Ease of Access Center window, which contains a whole range of options for aiding users with various degrees of vision and hearing impairments. When you click the Ease of Access link in the Control Panel, Windows opens an Ease of Access window, which contains the following two links:

Windows 7 ease of access