Tails uses the GNOME Desktop that provides many accessibility features as documented in the GNOME Access Guide. For a summary of those features, read the quick reference section of this guide.
To hear screen elements spoken to you or magnify the screen, see the GNOME Orca section of this guide.
The screen reading functionality of GNOME
Orca does not work neither with the Tor Browser nor with the Unsafe Web Browser.
If you prefer a pointing device over the keyboard, you can use the Florence virtual keyboard, instead of the GNOME On-Screen Keyboard.
If you are operating a computer one-handed (by joystick, touchscreen, or mouse) or zero-handed (by head-mouse or eyetracker), you can use the Dasher graphical predictive text entry application.
If you prefer high contrast, large print or inversed colors, you can change the default theme:
- Choose .
- Select one of the theme to apply it. The following themes are
available:
- High Contrast
- High Contrast Inverse
- High Contrast Large Print
- High Contrast Large Print Inverse
- Large Print
- Low Contrast
- Low Contrast Large Print
- For large print themes, click the Apply Font to change the font size.
- Click Close.