Better Vista for People with Low Vision
You’re about to start hearing a whole lot about Windows Vista. It’s Microsoft’s $10 billion replacement to Windows XP and from the end of January it will start appearing on all new computers.
I’m writing a whole separate website to deal with issues surrounding Vista’s Accessibility – more on that later.
In the meantime I thought I should announce that the vector-scaling mentioned in this article on my website has, in fact, appeared in the final release Windows Vista (albeit it not to the extent that I would have liked). Essentially the DPI of the whole screen can be scaled to ‘magnify’ the text and graphics (such as icons) with the effect occuring after a brief restart. Because the graphics are vectors instead of bitmaps there are no signs of pixellation or blurring.
It’s a little like changing the screen’s resolution – but better!
Add comment January 23rd, 2007