A machine set up for somebody else
Take a computer that was set up for another pair of eyes and another pair of ears and make it comfortable for yours, in about a minute, without asking anybody’s permission and without breaking a thing.
Every lesson in this course has said the same quiet thing: these are settings, not special measures, and they belong to whoever is sitting in the chair.
So here is a computer in perfect working order and entirely wrong for you. Nothing on it is faulty. Nothing on the screen will tell you which parts can be changed, and there is no order to do them in — this is a job with more than one right answer, and yours is whichever one you can read.
Key points
- Set the writing on a screen to a size you can read from where you actually sit.
- Use two things together, because for faint gray words that beats making them enormous.
- Find the sound, which lives in a different part of the same place from everything else.
What to remember
- Every one of those sits in the same place on your own computer, tablet or telephone, under whatever it calls Display and Sound, and not one of them is a special measure for people who are not managing. They are settings. They belong to whoever is in the chair, they can be moved back in a second, and nobody is told. The thing worth carrying away is that two small changes together beat one enormous one: the writing a little larger, the letters a little thicker, and the edges of things put back where you can see them.
- Honestly — how was that?
Try this
On your own machine, put the text up one notch and turn bold text on at the same time, and live with the pair of them for a week. If something runs off the edge of the screen, come down a notch. Nothing is broken by trying it, and nothing is lost by putting it back.
Practice: A machine set up for somebody else. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.