• The Ease of Access category is used to make Windows 7 easier to use. Many of these settings are used by those with visual or hearing impairment. However, other options such as speech recognition can be useful to anyone.
  
  
  
  
• The applets in the Ease of Access category include:


• The Ease of Access Center applet has a wide range of settings that makes Windows 7 easier to use for those with motor, visual, or hearing impairment. Some of the options available here are Magnifier, to increase the size of a portion of the screen, and Narrator, to read menus that are displayed on the screen. There are also detailed settings for display, input devices, and sounds. This applet replaces the Accessibility Options in Windows XP.
  
  
  
  
  • Make the mouse easier to use
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Make the computer easier to use
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speech Recognition Options.Windows 7 is capable of using speech recognition as an input device. This means that you can dictate to Windows 7 rather than typing. The Speech Recognition Options applet lets you conf gure all of the settings for speech recognition. The tasks for speech recognition include initial conf guration, microphone conf guration, and training speech recognition for your voice. This feature was not available in Windows XP.

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