[laptop-accessibility] Screen magnifier

[Vanessa Maike]

Thanks for all the help!

Kara, the plastic lens is a clever idea, I'll see if we can find something
like that here in Brazil :)

Andrea, I executed the sequence of commands you gave and it worked! The lens
moves with the mouse and disappears after we click the mouse button. I'm
relieved to see a software solution that works :)


Thanks again and regards!
Vanessa.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Andrea Mangiatordi <
andrea.mangiatordi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Il 28/10/10 20.25, Vanessa Maike ha scritto:
> > Some of the children of this school have subnormal vision and I'm
> > looking for a screen magnifier for the OLPC laptop, but I haven't been
> > able to find it.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone could help me, by telling me if exists a
> > screen magnifier software for the XO-1 and where I can find it.
>
> H Vanessa,
>
> I spent some times in Uruguay working on accessibility topics and I
> proposed the usage of this software:
>
> http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
>
> Later, Esteban Arias from Plan Ceibal (who I am CCing in this mail)
> modified the source code to obtain better results on the XO-1.
>
> Plan Ceibal deployed the magnifying software on all the laptops in the
> country.
>
> It has been quite a long time since I instaled it for the first time,
> but if you want to give it a try here are the terminal commands you need
> to execute on an XO-1  to get it installed:
>
> wget
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/magnifier/magnifier%20for%20Linux/3.3.2/magnifier-3.3.2-1.i586.rpm?use_mirror=switch
> sudo rpm -i magnifier-3.3.2-1.i586.rpm
> sudo yum install xbindkeys
> touch .xbindkeysrc
> echo "# Virtual Magnifying Glass" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo \"vmg\" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo "    m:0x0 + c:224" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo "xbindkeys" >> .xsession
>
> After this sequence of commands, you will have to restart the XO. You
> will then be able to access the magnifying glass by pressing the F13
> key, the one to the right after the "volume up" key.
>
> HTH
>
> Andrea
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