Feature Request - Scale/Zoom Features for Visually Impaired

Bug #1655099 reported by JaSauders
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1598805: implement zoom in/zoom out [desktop]. Edit Remove
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unity8 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hi friends. I'm submitting this bug/feature-request in an effort to voice support behind any and all current visually accessible features, including but not limited to: Display Scaling, Desktop Zoom with keyboard toggle, and High Contrast Text.

I work for a public school district with a lot of Ubuntu machines in use on a daily basis. These features, and I cannot stress this enough, are critical to these kids who rely on it to enhance their computing experience in class. Once some simple settings are toggled (whether in the current System Settings or something like Unity Tweak Tool), it's been pretty incredible to see students give you the nod that "I got it from here" and continue onward with their learning.

I'm sure it would benefit a multitude of other folks of any age range as well who fit this paradigm of being able to utilize these visually assisted features. The current Unity 7 does an excellent job of this. Similar capability in Unity 8 would simply be a gold set of features to have.

Thank you for your time, consideration, and continued hard work!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1598805, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

That covers the zoom feature. Please log a new specifically for the high contrast mode.

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