Microsoft is Adds Improved Accessibility Features of the Windows 10 May 2020 update. The improvements mainly focus on the text cursor, magnifier, and narrator.
Text cursor improvement
The most notable improvement is with the text cursor Adding a cursor index. This will help visually impaired people find the cursor without too much pressure. The size of the text cursor indicator can be tweaked based on your preferences. These customizations are already present in the regular mouse pointer.
Redmond added the giant’s power to change the thickness of the cursor, including a color picker to quickly find the cursor on the screen. You can also choose a custom color for the text cursor.
Magnifier improvement
The magnifier currently follows the mouse pointer so that users do not have to spend time locating the pointer on the display. With this update, the same functionality as the text cursor will be included. In addition to this, there is a convenient Text-to-speech integration So that you do not have to stress while trying to understand the content.
“Magnifier now includes play, pause, next sentence, previous sentence and read from here controls to make it easier to read the text in popular browsers, including Edge, Chrome and Firefox, and other Windows applications such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.” Leads Windows Accessibility Program Manager Jeff Petty says.
As you can guess from the picture above, Magnifier now respects the Dark Mode toggle and Comes with a Dark mode.
Improving the narrator: Adds Improved Accessibility Features
Windows 10’s built-in screen reader-narrator is also making some improvements. For newcomers, The narrator will sound more normal Decreased with strange pauses. It will run with the correct pronunciation.
Microsoft says it has redesigned narrator words for increased efficiency. The company has added intuitive words instead of common actions. Instead of listening to “scan on” or “scan off”, users will now hear the melody representing the action.