Your Needs

We spend more time choosing a kettle than we do choosing a set up for our computer which might reduce discomfort, enable access or make us more productive.

This service is about making your computer suit your needs - instead of expecting you to conform to the average.

All of us - IT staff, those who support computer users, and individual users themselves - can easily learn a few simple things to customise their computer set up.

Making the computer work for you is at the core of this service. We will explore how to overcome any problems caused by the display - from struggling to see the text to getting sore eyes through overuse. We will also look at how you can make your keyboard and mouse suit you - reducing any discomfort and helping you to make fewer mistakes when typing. Finally we will look at how you can use the things built into your computer to help you read when you find reading lots of text difficult.

To use this service click on each of the areas of need and work through some of the exercises to find a computer set up that suits you. But before that you might be interested to hear what some other users have said in recommending the importance of making the computer accessible: