document resizing for visually impaired students
The ability to read documents and notes is a crucial part of the education system, but for over 1200 visually impaired students in New Zealand and many more worldwide, large and clearly printed documents remain elusive. Resizing documents for visually impaired readers currently requires a mixture of time, patience and experience with word processors such as Microsoft Word. This paper describes the design and construction of an add-in to simplify the process of resizing documents so that they become more readable to the visually impaired. This paper discusses common problems with the resizing of documents, and the tools produced to help reduce or eliminate these problems. The tools were evaluated in the resizing of workbooks by staff at a visual resource centre with promising results.
document resizing visually impaired