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Customise Your Accessibility Settings; Turn On Magnify Mode - Blackberry Accessibility User Manual

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User Guide
Task
Decrease the text selection
Change the size of a text chunk
Delete a block of text (for languages that read left to right)
Delete a block of text (for languages that read right to left)
Paste a block of text

Customise your accessibility settings

You can customise your BlackBerry device to help suit your needs. For example, you can magnify the screen, use your
hearing aid with your device and change the font size.
1.
On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2.
Tap
Settings > Accessibility.
3.
Change your settings.

Turn on Magnify mode

You can use Magnify mode to enlarge the information on your BlackBerry device screen. You can zoom in to or zoom out
from the screen, even if you use an application that does not normally support zooming.
1.
On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2.
Tap
Settings > Accessibility.
3.
Turn on the Magnify Mode switch.
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Gesture
When you have text selected, swipe from right to left to
decrease the selection by one text chunk.
If the text selection becomes empty when you swipe to
decrease the selection, the selection extends in the
opposite direction. For example, if you get to the beginning
of the selected text, the new selection is the configured text
chunk extending to the left. If you get to the end of the
selected text, the new selection is beyond the previous end.
Swipe up with one finger while in the content to increase
the size. Swipe down with one finger while in the content to
decrease the size.
Swipe from right to left with two fingers.
Swipe from left to right with two fingers.
After you copy or cut text , swipe down and then up with two
fingers.
When you successfully paste the text, the BlackBerry
Screen Reader reads the content that you inserted.
Accessibility

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