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Making Windows easier to Hear<\/h1>\n
Where to Find the Menus<\/div>\n

This guide will help to make text within PowerChart easier to hear using a variety of tools.<\/p>\n

Before you can change your Accessibility Settings, you will need to find your Accessibility options.<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on the windows button in the bottom of your toolbar<\/li>\n
  2. Click “All<\/strong>” in the top right corner.<\/li>\n
  3. Scroll down to Settings<\/strong> and click on it.\u00a0 This should open the Settings window.<\/li>\n
  4. Scroll down the Settings window until you find the “Accessibility Preferences<\/strong>” section<\/li>\n
  5. Click on “More Accessibility Settings<\/strong>” to see all the different accessibility options.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Visual Audio Alerts<\/div>\n
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    • If you have trouble hearing audio alerts, you can have your PC display them visually. Select the\u00a0Start<\/strong>\u00a0button, then select Settings<\/strong> >\u00a0More Accessibility Settings<\/strong> > Audio<\/strong>.\u00a0 Under\u00a0Flash my screen during audio notifications<\/strong>, choose how you want audio alerts displayed. You can choose to have the title bar of the active window, the active window, or the entire screen flash when a notification arrives, instead of relying on sound alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Extended Visual Notifications<\/div>\n
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      • By default, Windows notifications disappear five seconds after they appear. If you want more time to read them, you can increase how long they’re displayed. Select the\u00a0Start<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0button, then select Settings<\/strong> > More <\/strong>Accessibility Setting <\/strong>> Visual effects<\/strong>. Then, under\u00a0Dismiss notifications after this amount of time<\/strong>, choose the amount of time you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Video Captions<\/div>\n
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        • If you have trouble hearing audio while playing videos, you can have your PC display them visually.\u00a0Select the\u00a0Start<\/strong>\u00a0button, then select\u00a0Settings<\/strong> > More <\/strong>Accessibility Settings<\/strong> > Captions<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0. Then switch on the\u00a0Live captions<\/strong>\u00a0 You can also use the Captions Style <\/strong>option to adjust how you want your captions to be displayed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          How to make Windows programs and your Windows display easier to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24317,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24330","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24330"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24391,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24330\/revisions\/24391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/training.nuth-itt.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}