Best laid plans. This week was supposed to be quite busy. By my standards. I had planned to go to the playground on Monday, then a visit from the sight central’s IT department on Tuesday, then hospital checkup today and cane training tomorrow. But the playground trip was canceled because of bad weather. And we missed our ride to the hospital today so we couldn’t make our appointment. And then I got a message from Ulla, the cane trainer, saying that she was going home sick today and not expecting to be well by tomorrow so we’d have to postpone the session. Oh well. I’m going to go to the playground tomorrow instead (if the weather behaves. There have been reports of snow, would you believe it). And furthermore mama will make winter’s first soup on Sunday, so I will be enjoying that a lot.<\/p>\n
But the only thing that has gone quite according to plan is the IT visit. That went quite well, although I’m not sure how much I’ll really benifit from it. It was more stuff that will help me if my eyesight gets worse again. The main thing I got was a program called ZoomText. It’s a zoom program. Surprisingly. But it doesn’t zoom text actually, it zoomes the whole screen. And it does other smart, little things as well. You can change colours and sizes and markers and pointers and so on. I haven’t messed around with it much yet, so I’m not sure how useful it will be exactly. But I am right now running with a screen resolution of 1280×720 instead of the 800×600 I had been using for months. And it seems to be working. I might be able to use this resolution. Using the zoom when needed. I have usually been using Firefox to zoom text, but that isn’t so handy always. For example when reading usenet. Because if you zoom the text too much then the layout gets messed up and it gets unreadable. I’m hoping ZoomText will work better with that. It works better with livejournal. So it does some good, the program. And it will be interesting to experiment with all the features. The screen reader feature isn’t installed though. Apparently it’s a little complicated to use, and since I don’t really need it right now there is no reason to mess around with it. But if my eyesight does get worse then they will come and install it and teach me to use it. <\/p>\n
I will also be getting a program that will teach me the 10 finger system of typing. That would also come in handy if my eyesight gets worse. If I can’t see they keyoard at all or see what I’m typing, then it will be necessary to srill be able to type. So hopefully I’ll be able to learn that. I can do it somewhat already, so with proper lessons it should be possible. <\/p>\n
But that’s it. We’ll see how much I can get out of ZoomText. If I can run with a higher resolution and use some websites that I couldn’t really before then that would be quite good, yes. All the help I can get is good.<\/p>\n
And hopefully I’ll get to see the goats tomorrow. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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