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| <h1>Accessibility features in Eclipse</h1> |
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| Accessibility features help people with a physical disability, such as |
| restricted mobility or limited vision, or those with special needs to use |
| software products successfully. These are the major accessibility features in |
| Eclipse:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Eclipse uses Microsoft Active |
| Accessibility (MSAA) APIs to render user interface elements accessible to |
| assistive technology.</li> |
| <li>You can operate all features using the keyboard instead of the mouse. See |
| the related task. </li> |
| <li>You can use screen-reader software such as Freedom Scientific's JAWS <sup>TM</sup> |
| and a digital speech synthesizer to hear what is displayed on the |
| screen. You can also use voice recognition software, |
| such as IBM ViaVoice <sup>TM</sup> to enter data and to navigate the user |
| interface.</li> |
| <li>You can magnify what is displayed on your screen in the graphical views. |
| </li> |
| <li>Fonts and colors defined by Eclipse can be set using the |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.ColorsAndFonts)")'> |
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| <strong>General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts</strong></a> |
| preference page. See the related link. |
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| <p><strong>Note: </strong>The Accessibility features mentioned in |
| this document apply to the Windows operating system. |
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| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3> |
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| <a href="navigation.htm">Navigating the user interface using the keyboard</a><br> |
| <a href="text_editor.htm">Accessibility features in textual editors</a> |
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| <a href="keyboardshortcuts.htm">Keys</a><br> |
| <a href="fontsandcolors.htm">Font and color settings in Eclipse</a><br> |
| <a href="../../reference/ref-7.htm">Accessibility preference page</a> |
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