Accessibility Guide for Windows 11

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Windows 11 has a lot of options for improving both the sights and sounds of Windows for those users who need some help. Whether you’re adjusting these options for yourself or have been designated as ‘tech support’ for an older user, there are a lot of options to choose from. For the full list, go to the Start menu and click Settings (the gear image), choose the ‘Accessibility’ option in the left column and go exploring; below, I’m listing only the features that I’ve applied for multiple users. For each, I will give instructions that start on that Accessibility screen, in the order they appear there, screen features first, and then audio.

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Unique Passwords, Always

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These phish attempts are worse, much worse, for those of you who insist on using one password everywhere and forever. Again, once a phishing attack lands a password and user account login, or worse, an email login that can be used to confirm logins, these thieves will try using those logins to the top 20 to 50 banking and ecommerce sites, and see what accounts they get access to. AI will make this worse…

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Phish-Spotting

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Phish Spotting

Phish are evolving. In the past, large schools of phish were easily recognized as scams by looking for stupid stuff in the allegedly-urgent emails. There were spelling and grammar errors, capitalization errors that match other languages but not English, bad-logic lines like ‘in your nearest post office,’ and most important, the sending email address is some random international address that you don’t do business with. Logos of vendors were frequently out-of-date, and the links were clearly going to links ending in two-character country codes. AI is cleaning up those issues, and the phish are looking more like real business emails….

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