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Hi everyone, I'm putting together a website for visually impaired leasrners and carers and want to put a button - or set of buttons - on the top of the page so user can select font size and background colour. I found this poage on Action for Blind People which would do the trick Accessibility statement and options | Action For Blind People Has anyone put this kind of resource on a website and more importantly, can you tell me how you did it - or point me in the right direction? Many thanks, Ian

Hi, We have a child at our school who requires a larger display of fonts, bigger mouse cursor, mouse cursors with trails etc... and I need to know how to set up a Group Policy setting that will allow these things to follow him round wherever he logs on. Is this possible? If so could someone point me in the right direction please?! x

After having some rather nasty dental work done (four rather complex wisdom teeth removed) I have been left unable to speak for a while. Finding this to be annoying I thought to myself that I have a Windows laptop that has TTS (text to speech) built in. A few lines of VBS later and I have a magic speaking machine which has proved very helpful: c:\scripts\Say.vbs set s = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice") do While 1 Voice = inputbox("what to say") wscript.echo "> " & Voice s.Speak Voice loop With a nice little shortcut running it in cscript C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe /NoLogo c:\scripts\say.vbs Not pretty at all but it says what you type when you hit enter and outputs a log to the command window in case the TT version is indecipherable. I changed the font size in the command window up to 16 and it seems to work really well for the simple hack that it is. I might make it better but I don't think I'd be mute for long so it serves my current needs. Just thought it might help someone some day.

Had an issue this morning as none of our reader pupils could listen to the PDF the AQA gave us for the exam.. In their wisdom they decided to not only password protect the PDF, (ok enough) but they restricted copying and printing. This lead to the immediate issue that the screen reader software couldn't access the PDF, so 6 pupils without a screen reader. (Natural reader 16) Nice. (The built in edge screen reader won't work as internet access is disabled for obvious reasons)

We have recently enabled Ease of Access Centre via the below GPO This functions but the Mouse Settings do not load when show more settings is clicked under the mouse option they should show as below - we think it could be control panel related

Our school is currently looking at gaining the ICT Mark. One of the issues that has arisen is the one of roaming profiles. It has been argued by a member of staff that we will require roaming profiles; so that students can personalise their own desktop to suit their needs. Without significant investment in more powerful servers and storage space we (the IT Dept) believe that roaming profiles will be slow to load and take up masses of storage space for the profiles. For those schools that have already passed the ICT Mark, did you need to change your network to include roaming profiles?

Below is babble, I want to block all traffic in my RM filter list (I've done *.*) but I'd like to allow the text to speech or "Read Aloud" to work. Anyone know what url's I should allow for this? I've just gotten edge to obey the proxy settings (as the old commands are deprecated and the new way is syntax perfection or nothing... so I used regedit) I've gotten to the point where I have the edge browser going through a new proxy, that I have a filter list of everything blocked. (as I can't seem to set "no proxy" or proxy yourself in edge) urgh... My existing exam account just prevented edge from loading as I could never get the proxy info to stick.. or if it did google would still search, even if the links failed. (still too powerful in an exam)

So I have been searching for way to accomplish this in a relative easy and automated way but so far I have not. Working in a high school we have a real problem with students changing the themes on lab computers to high contrast making it hard for the next person to use that computer to use it and it is generating many support calls from teachers saying the computer video is messed up (despite multiple informative emails on this happening and how to easily fix it). I have read some info on creating a custom GPO but that has not worked as I thought probably because the info was written around Windows 7 and not Window 10. I have also read some information on deleting or changing the UTILMAN.exe in the windows\system32 but that does not seem to help either What I found works is to delete the files in "C:\Windows\Resources\Ease of Access Themes" but you first have to take ownership and grant administrative access to those files. I thought maybe some sort of script could work to do all of this I could run on the computers I would like this disabled on. I know I probably can strip the files from my computer image but we are also a One2One school with Windows devices for our students and I do not want to disable high contrast on those devices. I just want to keep it off the general use computers in the labs and classrooms. I think managing two images and which one to use where would be confusing for my IT staff. So long story short I was seeking out any script gurus or maybe someone that has found a script that works or another solution that is easily implemented on select systems that I could try. I have already stripped these files off of an entire lab of computers manually and it has been very helpful in that lab to stop students from messing with the computer. All of our computers are Windows 10 either version 1709 or 1703. Domain is Server 2012R2.

Hi, I work overseeing SEND Technologies at a college - does anyone have a procedure I can pass to our central IT Team - they have the full settings app blocked via GPO- I need them (and they are willing to) enable accessibility settings but keep the rest blocked for students - does anyone have a simple procedure for them to do so. Thanks Jonathan

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