Windows 10 Settings for Low Vision
This page documents Windows 10 preferences that may pertain to people with low vision.
Display
- brightness and color profile of monitor
- hd color settings for media
- Scale % (change size of text, apps and other items)
- screen orientation
- screen resolution
Personalization
- background color
- accent color
- dark/light mode
- High Contrast settings
- text
- link
- disabled text
- selected text
- button text
- background color
OS Font
- family
- size
- style
Ease of Access
- Bigger text (changes only text size across the system)
- Show animations
- Automatically hide scrollbars (e.g. show scrollbars)
- Increase length of time notifications appear
- Show visual feedback while touching the screen
- Make visual feedback for touch points darker and larger
- caret thickness
- Magnifier (more settings)
- default zoom level
- zoom level increments
- Smooth edges of images and text
- Lens/docked mode
- Keep mouse pointer centered
- color filters (grayscale, color blindness)
- transparency
- caret blink rate
Mouse
- line scrolling (mouse wheel) (vertical & horizontal)
- mouse pointer size (15 total sizes)
- pointer color
- black, white, inverted
- Highlight colors (6)
- Pick a custom pointer color
- pointer speed
- pointer snap to
- pointer trails
- pointer locator
- hide pointer while typing