Windows Low Vision: Fonts

Some computer fonts can be challenging for those of us with visual impairments. If the font is too busy or cluttered, it can be hard to read, especially when magnified. Thankfully, Windows makes it easy to customize our fonts to fit our visual needs. Let's find out how.

From anywhere on our computer, let's press the Windows key and the letter D to move to the desktop. We'll open the context menu by either right-clicking on any blank spot on the desktop or by using the keyboard shortcut shift and F10. This opens a menu. You might hear this menu called a context menu. It contains shortcuts that help us use our computer more efficiently. We'll select personalized from the list. We can do that with our mouse pointer or press the letter R as in right for me.

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