This video shows how quick and easy it is to change the size of your desktop icons on a computer running Windows 10.
It is two minutes long and it includes a full set of subtitles.
In the video the following questions will be answered;
1. How can I make changes in about 30 seconds straight from the desktop? 2. What size icons can I choose between? 3. How can I make the changes using my mouse? 4. How can I make the changes using my keyboard?
A full transcript of the video can be read below.
Start of video transcript
Hello everyone and welcome to this video
in this video I am going to show you how to Change the size of your desktop icons on your Windows 10 laptop or PC.
with your mouse right click anywhere on a part of your desktop is empty. a menu appears. now click on view and you can see that another menu appears and from this menu select between large medium and small icons.
As you select between large medium or small icons the size of the icons changes immediately.
And there you go. A really simple way to change the size of your desktop icons in 20 seconds or less.
If you want to use a few keyboard shortcuts then try this. Press the Windows keys + D to get onto the desktop.
Now press the Shift key with F10 in order to get the display menu up.
Press v (for view) and then either r (large icons), m (medium icons) or n (small icons).
Thank you for watching this video if you have any comments please leave them in the comment section below the video.
This video is 19 minutes long but it has a full set of subtitles included.
It is the Ultimate Guide to the Ease of Access Centre in Windows 10.
This video concentrates on the software in the Ease of Access Centre that will enhance the use of a Windows computer for a person with a visual impairment.
In this video, the following questions will be answered;
1. What is the Ease of Access Centre? 2. How do I start and stop the magnification tool (Magnifier)? 3. What are Magnifier's main features? 4. What are the most important keyboard shortcuts to use? 5. How do I start and stop the screen reader (Narrator)? 6. What are Narrator's main features? 7. What are the most important keyboard shortcuts to use? 8. What do the different high contrast themes look like? 9. How do I turn high contrast on and off?
A full transcript from the video can be read below
Start of Video Transcript
Windows 10 laptop.
The Ease of Access Center is the place on a Windows PC or laptop where you can modify the accessibility settings in order to make your computer easier to see, to hear and to use.
For this video, I am going to be demonstrating the Ease of Access Center on a laptop running Windows 10 but the Ease of Access Centre was part of Windows 8 as well and I have created a video about that and you can find the link below this video.
The Ease of Access Centre is the place to go for people who have a wide range of disabilities in order to modify how their computer works. My specific concern in this video is those settings that make a computer easier to use for people who have a visual impairment.
To open the Ease of Access Centre we press the Windows key and the “U” key.
So let us look at each element in the centre in turn, starting with the common tools; magnifier, narrator, on screen keyboard and high contrast.
Magnifier is a feature that makes the whole screen or parts of it bigger.
To start it you can press the Windows key and the “+” key. A magnifying glass appears on your screen like this and that shows that we have started the Magnifier.
You can make things bigger by pressing the Windows key and the “+” key and you can see there that my mouse cursor, my mouse pointer are magnifying I am zooming in and making things bigger.
You make things smaller by pressing the Windows key and the “-” key repeatedly.
Once you have set the ideal magnification level for yourself you then have a choice between using the magnifier in one of three modes; full screen (which we have it on now), lens, docked.
In full screen mode the whole of the desktop is magnified. To select full screen mode press the Ctrl and Alt and F keys together.
The centre, the focus of the magnification is where the mouse pointer is. You can see as I move my mouse pointer around then the magnification moves with it.
To select “lens” mode, press the Ctrl and Alt and L keys together. A rectangular lens appears on the screen. Anything within the lens is magnified and the lens follows your mouse pointer. So, here we go, you can see there is the rectangular magnification and as I move it around, anything that the rectangle hovers over is magnified.
To select “docked” mode, press the Ctrl and Alt and D keys together. A rectangular strip appears at the top of your screen (and you can see it here) which is stationary and magnifies the area around your mouse pointer.
And there you have it- my quick tour of Windows magnifier.
Now to come out of Windows magnifier we press the Windows key and the escape key.
As magnifiers go, this one which is built into Windows is pretty limited and poor. It compares very badly to the magnification tool that is built into Apple Macs.
Other, better magnifiers are available. Some are free to download, some are very sophisticated and cost lots of money.
So in the next part of my tour of the Ease of Access Centre, I will give you an overview of Narrator- windows built in screen reader.
So let’s get the ease of access centre open by pressing the Windows key and the U key together.
Now a screen reader is a voice that informs you what is happening on screen. It is predominantly used by people with a visual impairment.
To open the screen reader, which is called Narrator, you press the Windows key and the Enter key. You will hear a voice. And I don't know if that voice is going to come out on this recording because I've got a headset on.
The voice works together with a variety of shortcut keys in order to help you to control your computer and know what is going on.
You can access a list of the shortcut keys by pressing the Caps Lock key and the F1 key together when you have Narrator on.
There are about 70 shortcut keys that help you to control your computer and have a voice to guide you. And you can see that I've got some of the shortcut keys on the screen now.
The shortcut keys cover 3 main areas- basic commands, navigation commands and text and table commands.
At the bottom of this box of all of the shortcut keys there is a box label scoping and in here you can choose which ones of those commands that you want up. Basic commands, navigation commands and text and table commands.
So let’s get basic commands up.
Basic commands are the shortcut keys that allow you to control the voice.
For instance, to stop Narrator reading press the Control Key. And there you’ve got it there.
To increase the speaking rate of Narrator we press the caps lock and “+” key which is this command here you can it highlighted in blue on your screen.
To increase the volume of Narrator, press the “caps lock” key and the “Page Up” key and you can see that highlighted in blue on your screen.
Navigation commands are shortcut keys that enable a user to move the focus of Narrator around the screen. And let's go down to the scoping box and get the navigation commands up.
For instance to move to the next item press the “caps lock” key and the “right arrow” key which is highlighted in blue on your screen.
To move to a linked item press the “caps lock” key and the “insert” key which is there highlighted in blue on your screen.
As I have just said you can access the full list of navigation commands by pressing the caps lock key and the F1 key and then in the scoping drop down menu select navigation commands.
Text and table commands are shortcut keys that enable a user to use Narrator to read text and tables.
For instance, to read a document, press the “caps lock key” and the “h” key.
To read a page, press the “caps lock” key and the “control key” and the “u” key.
To read the current row in a table, press the “caps lock” key and the F8 key.
You can access the full list of text and table commands by pressing the caps lock key and the F1 key and then in the scoping drop down menu select text and table commands and there they are in front of you.
To exit Narrator, press the “caps lock” key and the “escape” key.
And there you have it- my quick tour of Windows Narrator.
As screen readers go, this one which is built into Windows is pretty limited and poor. It compares very badly to the screen reader that is built into Apple Macs.
Other, better screen readers are available. Some are free to download, some are very sophisticated and cost lots of money.
Next on my tour I will be looking at the High Contrast feature. These are settings that use contrasting colours in order to make the screen easier to see.
Before I turn on the High Contrast setting, I want to show you the different colour schemes that are available.
To do this, click on “Set Up High Contrast”, and then near the top of the page select “Choose a high contrast theme”
There are four standard high contrast colour schemes in Windows 10 and you can see them in the High Contrast Themes section on this page.
Three of them use different colours on a black background- blue and yellow, light blue and green and white and purple, whilst the fourth is black on a white background.
This is what they look like on the desktop, in a web browser and in Word.
Firstly the blue and yellow on black theme; this is your desktop, in your browser and this is what it looks like in Word.
Next let’s go to the light blue and green on black theme; so this is what it looks like on your desktop, this is what it looks like on your browser, and that’s what it looks like in Word.
Next the white and purple on black theme; so this is what your desktop looks like, just refresh this this is what your browser looks like and this is what Word looks like.
And finally the black on white theme and so here we go this is a bit of a difference. This is your desktop, this is your browser and this is your Word document.
Once you have chosen your favourite colour setting from all of these make sure that you select it. And I am going to leave it on the high contrast white.
That means that when you turn High Contrast, it displays your selected colour scheme. And so let’s just demonstrate that.
So I have turned the high contrast scheme off and now if I turn it on there you go it goes immediately to black and white.
And sorry to turn on the High Contrast scheme the shortcut keys are the left shift key, the left alt key and the print screen key all pressed down together.
And there you go that is my quick tour of the high contrast mode and also the end my video demonstrating the Ease of Access Centre.
Thank you for watching. If you would like to leave a comment, join the discussion or ask me a question then do so below.
Do you use other magnifiers or screen readers? If so, which ones?
And what are your favourite colour combinations for using High Contrast please let me know.
This is a video about Magnifier, the built in magnification software that is in Windows 10.
The video is 5 minutes long and includes a full set of subtitles.
In this video, the following questions will be answered.
1. What is Magnifier? 2. How do I start and stop magnifier? 3. How do I change the magnification settings on it? 4. How good is it compared to other magnification software?
A full transcript of this video can be found below.
Start of Video Transcript
Hello everybody and welcome to this video.
In this video, I want I will give a brief demonstration of the magnification tool in Windows 10, called Magnifier.
Windows 10, like most other versions of windows, has a suite of built in tools that enable people with a wide range of disabilities to make their PC or laptop easier to see, to hear and to use.
In Windows 8 and Windows 10 these tools are controlled centrally via the Ease of Access Centre.
I have created very detailed videos about the Ease of Access Centre in Windows 8 and Windows 10 and I will leave links to those videos below this video.
Magnifier is a feature that makes the whole screen or parts of it bigger and so it is most likely to be used by people with a visual impairment.
To start Magnifier, you can press the Windows key and the “+” key. A magnifying glass appears on your screen like this and that shows that we have started the Magnifier.
You can make things bigger by pressing the Windows key and the “+” key and you can see there that my mouse cursor, my mouse pointer are magnifying I am zooming in and making things bigger.
You make things smaller by pressing the Windows key and the “-” key repeatedly.
Once you have set the ideal magnification level for yourself you then have a choice between using the magnifier in one of three modes; full screen (which we have it on now), lens, docked.
In full screen mode the whole of the desktop is magnified. To select full screen mode press the Ctrl and Alt and F keys together.
The centre, the focus of the magnification is where the mouse pointer is. You can see as I move my mouse pointer around then the magnification moves with it.
To select “lens” mode, press the Ctrl and Alt and L keys together. A rectangular lens appears on the screen. Anything within the lens is magnified and the lens follows your mouse pointer. So, here we go, you can see there is the rectangular magnification and as I move it around, anything that the rectangle hovers over is magnified.
To select “docked” mode, press the Ctrl and Alt and D keys together. A rectangular strip appears at the top of your screen (and you can see it here) which is stationary and magnifies the area around your mouse pointer.
And there you have it- my quick tour of Windows magnifier.
Now to come out of Windows magnifier we press the Windows key and the escape key.
As magnifiers go, this one which is built into Windows is pretty limited and poor. It compares very badly to the magnification tool that is built into Apple Macs.
Other, better magnifiers are available. Some are free to download, some are very sophisticated and cost lots of money.
This video is about Narrator, the built- in screen reader in Windows 10.
The video is 6 minutes and includes a full set of subtitles.
In the video the following questions will be answered.
1. What is Narrator? 2. How do you start and stop it? 3. What keyboard shortcuts to use? 4. How good is it compared to other screen readers?
A full transcript of this video can be found below.
Start of Transcript
Hello everybody and welcome to this video.
In this video I will be exploring the screen reader that comes built into Windows 10, called Narrator.
Windows 10, like most other versions of Windows, has a suite of built in tools that enable people with a wide range of disabilities to make their PC or laptop easier to see, to hear and to use.
In Windows 8 and Windows 10 these tools are controlled centrally via the Ease of Access Centre.
I have created very detailed videos about the Ease of Access Centre in Windows 8 and Windows 10 and I will leave links to those videos below this video.
I have also created a separate video about the magnification tool that is built into Windows 10. It is called Magnifier and I will leave a link to that video as well.
Now a screen reader is a voice that informs you what is happening on screen. It is predominantly used by people with a visual impairment.
To open the screen reader, which is called Narrator, you press the Windows key and the Enter key. You will hear a voice. And I think that you can hear it as well as me.
The voice works together with a variety of shortcut keys in order to help you to control your computer and know what is going on.
You can access a list of the shortcut keys by pressing the Caps Lock key and the F1 key together when you have Narrator on.
There are about 70 shortcut keys that help you to control your computer and have a voice to guide you. And you can see that I've got some of the shortcut keys on the screen now.
The shortcut keys cover 3 main areas- basic commands, navigation commands and text and table commands.
Because the complete list is so long, you might want to only display one set of commands at a time. This is done through using the scoping drop down menu at the bottom here.
You can choose whether to display the basic commands, just the navigation commands or just the text and table commands. I think that by displaying things separately, it makes things more manageable.
Basic commands are the shortcut keys that allow you to control the voice.
For instance, to stop Narrator reading press the Control Key. And there you’ve got it there highlighted in blue on your screen. .
To increase the speaking rate of Narrator we press the caps lock and “+” key and the command is highlighted in blue on your screen.
To increase the volume of Narrator, press the “caps lock” key and the “Page Up” key and you can see that command highlighted in blue on your screen.
Navigation commands are shortcut keys that enable a user to move the focus of Narrator around the screen.
For instance to move to the next item press the “caps lock” key and the “right arrow” key and that is highlighted in blue on your screen.
To move to a linked item press the “caps lock” key and the “insert” key and you can see that command highlighted in blue on your screen.
Text and table commands are shortcut keys that enable a user to use Narrator to read text and tables.
For instance, to read a document, press the “caps lock key” and the “h” key and you can see that highlighted in blue on your screen.
To read a page, press the “caps lock” key and the “control key” and the “u” key and you can see that highlighted in blue on your screen.
To read the current row in a column, press the “caps lock” key and the F8 key and you can see that highlighted in blue on your screen.
To exit Narrator, we press the “caps lock” key and the “escape” key.
And that's my quick tour of Windows Narrator.
As screen readers go, this one which is built into Windows is pretty limited and poor. It compares very badly to the screen reader that is built into Apple Macs.
Other, better screen readers are available. Some are free to download, some are very sophisticated and cost lots of money.
Thanks for watching this video. If you want to leave a comment, ask me a question or join in with the discussion then do so below. End of Transcript
Welcome to my video. In this video, I will demonstrate how to register for a Tesco account when using Internet Explorer and the screen reader, Jaws.
Start of Transcript
Hello, everyone and welcome to this video.
In this video I demonstrate how to register for an account at Tesco.com so that you can use the site to shop on-line.
To do this I am using the screen reader Jaws and Internet Explorer 11 (the desktop edition) in on a Windows 8.1 laptop.
Now as you listen to the video, you will hear two voices- my voice and Jaws' voice. We will try and not talk over one another.
Tesco.com is a huge on-line shop with hundreds of thousands of goods available to buy. That can make the website very intimidating to use with a screen reader.
At every stage of the process, I will tell you which keys on your keyboard you need to press in order to make this website accessible with Jaws.
Most people I suspect use Tesco.com to do their weekly food or grocery shop which helps to narrow our focus.
So let's get up to the address bar and Type in Tesco.com into the address bar.
If you want to shop at Tesco.com you need to register for an account. There is no way a round this.
To start, we need to select the "Sign in" link.
To do this press the INSERT key and the F7 key together, which brings up a list of Links. The Sign in link should be the link highlighted at the top, so we just press the enter key.
I am going to presume that you want to shop for groceries and so press the down arrow twice and press enter.
To register for an account, you need to provide a few details. Press the TAB key 5 times and then start typing your email address.
So I typed my email address in and then pressed the TAB key to go to the "confirm email" box and I re-typed the same email address in.
I am going to press the TAB key once more and type in my postcode.
If you have a Tesco's Clubcard, Press the TAB key once more and type in your Clubcard number.
Or if you don't have a Tesco's Clubcard, press the TAB key twice and then press the Spacebar once. When your account is created, you will be given a Clubcard number.
Now press the TAB key once more to select the "Register" button and then press the Enter key.
If you haven't got a Clubcard, Jaws will read out a message prompting you to add your Clubcard number if you have one.
So, if you haven't got one, just press the Enter key.
Another registration page loads.
Now since most of this information on this page is highly personal, I will not be filling it in. However, I will still take you through it, step by step, or keyboard shortcut by keyboard shortcut.
The first piece of information you need to input is your "Title".
Press the letter "e" and then press Shift + Tab keys together
Press the down arrow key until the correct title comes up for you.
Once you have selected the right title, press TAB and then type in your first name.
Press the TAB key twice and type in your surname.
Now press the TAB key twice more and you will need to use the down arrow to find your address.
Once you have done this, press the TAB key once more and type in a "nickname" for the address. For most of us, it will be "home".
Press the TAB key once more and enter a daytime telephone number.
Once you have done this, press the TAB key once more and enter your mobile number.
Press the TAB key three times and type in a password for your account. It must contain a capital letter, a number, a lowercase letter and a special character (such as £).
Press the TAB key once and type your password in again.
Press the TAB key once more and you can select the viewing options for the Tesco website. The five alternatives are; standard, low visibility, screen reader, keyboard and colour blind.
Select the option that you want by pressing on the down arrow.
Press the TAB key once more to select how you heard about Tescos. Make your selection by pressing the down arrow.
Press the TAB key four more times to agree to the terms and conditions. Then press enter.
Provided that the website accepts all the information that you have given to it, you have successfully registered and because I haven't filled in all the boxes, that is why I have a message from the webpage up in front of me.
However it should be different for you.
You can now sign in to Tesco.com and start to shop.
I will show you how to sign in using keyboard shortcuts in my next video.
Thank you for watching this video. If you have any comments, please leave them in the selection below the video.
What You Will Learn by Watching This Video.
1. Which of the following websites converts a complicated, 3 page PDF document into a Word file that can be edited.
The websites are;
PDFtoWord.com
PDFonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter
Freepdfconvert.com/pdf-word
Docs.zone/pdf-to-word
convertonlinefree.com/pdftoworden.aspx
In this video I visit 5 different PDF to Word Conversion websites, that are free to use!
I upload a complicated PDF file that contains text, graphics, photos and colours to see what the converting power of each website is like.
Start of Video Transcript
Hello and welcome to this video.
In this video I will compare 5 websites that claim to be able to convert pdf files to word files- convert a document that is read only into a document that can be edited!
All the websites that I show you claim to convert the files for free.
To make it a fairer test as possible, I will use the same pdf file on all sites.
The PDF that I have chosen to use is here on the screen in front of you and it's about the Blitz in the Second World War. So let's have a quick look at it.
It is quite a complex PDF that contains text, photos and graphics. Now ideally I was looking for something with a table in it but I did not want to spend any more time looking for what I thought was going to be the perfect PDF file.
Now, this original, The original file was 20 pages long but for the purposes of this conversion, I cut it down to three pages just to make sure that I wouldn't have any trouble with any of the on-line sites.
Let's go through our files one by one, sorry our sites one by one.
Now the first one here is pdftoword.com.
This is an on-line tool although you need to provide your email address so that your converted file can be sent to you. And so I am just about to put in my email address here.
It is made by a company who makes a powerful piece of PDF editing software (similar to Abbyy Fine Reader) which has been the subject one of one of my previous videos and of course they advertise this software on the webpage quite a lot.
There is no obvious details on any limits of using the on-line, free, PDF to Word converter. As you are doing this, make sure that you don't tick that box there because they will just start sending you lots of emails if that it the case.
So let's have a look up here, so what we want is we want to convert a PDF into Word and you can see that you can do other types of conversions on this page as well. It is not just PDF to Word there are lots of different conversions that you can do but I want to focus on this video just on PDF to word and once you have selected the kind of conversion that you want, you then select a file, so lets have a look.
Hopefully, there's our..and so we have told it thats the World War Two Blitz PDF that we want and now lets tell it to convert.
Now you can see that the conversion is taking a bit of time, probably taken round about a minute OK and what happens is that it sends us, it sends the converted file to us. So let's go back to my Inbox, here we go in my Inbox this is the conversion, my converted file. So I opened up the email.
And so here you go this is the converted file that it is converted from,.
You can see that actually, it is pretty good in terms of the likeness of it to the original. So that terrific news there isn't it? OK, so that is PDFtoWord.com.
So let's just close that there.
Now, our next website that we are going to for the conversion is PDFonline PDF to Word Converter.
So, here you go, there's the address of it in the address bar and right here we are going to upload a file to convert.
Now for this site you do not need to provide your email address as it is done for you on a while you wait basis.
So, let's have a look, take the original file again and you can see how the while you wait basis works.
Again it will probably take about a minute.
OK and that's not good, is it?
Let's have another go at that.
See if we can make that work again.
Ok so what we are going to need to do we are going to need to move on from that site.
So lets go to our third our third conversion website.
This is if you have a look at the address bar freepdfconvert.com/ pdf-to-word. On tis site again you need to provide your email address so let's let's go and choose the file and it actually says in terms of providing your email address its optional so let's tell it to convert it right away and I think it will be done while we wait.
And we can see what's happened here, let's download this.
So it is a, it was a three page document that I uploaded to the site, here we go, and it has only done two pages because it is trying to get us to sign up to the website to get the third page done.
So that is something to bear in mind if you want to use this website or consider this website. The conversion itself you can see in front of us here, again is very close to the original.
If I just move the cursor around to show that we can actually edit different parts of this document. Yes there are just two pages. So that is freepdfconvert.com is going to restrict you to two pages, unless you sign up.
OK so lets go for our fourth website which is up here docs.zone/pdf-to-word.
So, here we go, let's choose our PDF, once more and you get a choice here of what type of conversion you actually want it to do.
Now I am just going to stick to the flowing, what it calls flowing cause it says that that is ideal for most documents.
Ok, so let's check that out. We didn't have to give our email address to this and there we go, very very quick conversion.
It is done there and so let's download it and then open it up in Word and here we go we can see that it is another very, very accurate conversion.
It look as though I can edit all parts of it.
Let's just flash the original up again. So here's the original that we sent to every site for conversion.
And this is the converted copy from Docs Zone.
So that is another good conversion.
And then finally for this video, I am going to go to a website which is convertonlinefree.com.
And you can see that this website is a little more cluttered. It seems to be more information up on it and there are definitely more ads on it. just to confuse us.
So what we do here is go to the browse button and then we choose our original PDF and then next to the browse button is the convert button.
There is no email address to put in. so we just straight away we open it and again, there's another very, very good conversion of a three page, of our three page PDF. So just to show for small files, perhaps, these websites, these free websites can do a great conversion. We can get the PDF into Word and start to move it around and edit it.
OK, everyone, thank you for watching.
If you have any comments please leave them in the comments section below, or any questions please ask me in the comments section below.
If you have experience of other online sites or the sites that I have shown today then please let me know as well.
I'd be really interested to hear from you.
Thank you for watching.
On this page, you will find a video that I have created that highlights the main features of Abbyy Fine Reader 12 which is a piece of software that converts PDFs into editable text. Beneath the video is a full transcript of the video.
Start of Transcript
Hello and welcome to this video.
In this video I will provide a quick overview of Abbyy Fine Reader 12- Pro which is a piece of OCR software. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and one of its most common uses is to be able to convert text from a paper document (via a scanner) or convert text from a photo or PDF into text that can be edited.
This is an important task for many businesses and schools. It is a very important task for people who have a visual impairment, because once the conversion is done, they can then access the text on their PC, Mac or tablet via a screen reader.
So, I am on the company web page and I will quickly take you through the features of the software.
Just to say that it costs £99 or you can trial it for 30 days and scan up to 100 pages.
Edit a Scanned Document or an Image PDF
Scans and converts image documents (such as PDFs) into editable text with a recognition accuracy of 99.8%.
