Charlie Owen continues his excellent Mailbag feature, and this week its on the High Contrast settings for the visually impaired. I would have thought that Media Center is good in that respect anyway with the big UI and clear text, but as Charlie points out there are some High Contrast settings that can help too

Accessibility is pretty important to us, and we want to make Windows Media Center easy to use for visually impaired folks. The default experience in Windows Media Center makes your digital media much more accessible to start with compared to Windows Media Player, iTunes or Zune — because everything is bigger (your album art, the text, selectable items, etc.). There are some high contrast accessibility features you can turn on which make it even easier to read and navigate Windows Media Center if you are vision impaired.

Continued on Charlie’s Blog

 

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