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Master Accessibility on Mac Part 2

On the previous pages, we showed you how the Mac’s Accessibility features can help if you have difficulty with your vision. However, there’s much more to Accessibility than that. On this page and the next, we’ll show you how to use its settings to help you if your hearing or motor functions are impaired.

HEARING CONTROLS

Hearing controls are in System Prefs > Accessibility. There are three groups of settings in the Hearing section — Audio, RTT, and Captions.

In Audio, one of the most useful controls is the one that enables you to flash the screen when your Mac plays an alert sound. Thankfully, the flash is very gentle, alternating between

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