{"id":10816,"date":"2019-05-13T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=10816"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:23:06","slug":"remove-ease-of-access-button-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/remove-ease-of-access-button-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove the Ease of Access Button on Logon Screen in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ease of Access button on the logon screen can be helpful to people who have certain impairments, but people who don’t have a use for the accessibility features often prefer to turn these features off. The Ease of Access offers a dozen options that you can configure, including onscreen keyboard, Magnifier app that makes it easy for visually impaired people to read the screen, and a basic screen-reader called Narrator that reads dialog boxes and window controls. Ease of Access offers the following 12 options in Windows 10 related to vision, hearing and interaction.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most common scenario why organizations want to remove the Ease of Access button is when Windows 10 computers are configured as kiosks, but individuals and organizations also have other reasons for removing this button.<\/p>\n

Kids often click around with the mouse on their home computer and accidentally turn on some of the Ease of Access options. For example, they can turn on High Contrast, which turns the default white background of applications into black. On the Windows 10 logon screen, clicking the Ease of Access button gives you the following options.<\/p>\n

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You may see more buttons on your computer than what you see in the above screenshot. Because this screenshot is from a Virtual Machine, it shows only two buttons: Power and Ease of Access. A desktop computer usually have some additional buttons, at least the Network button.<\/p>\n

High Contrast can be useful for people who are unable to easily distinguish color contrasts on the screen. For people who don’t have this issue, the High Contrast screen can put more stress on their eyes, or they may just find it weird because they are not used to it. Here are a couple of examples of what the High Contrast screen looks like in Notepad and Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes people hit certain hotkeys (keyboard combinations) which turns the Magnifier or the Narrator on. Imagine your computer suddenly start reading out load what’s on your screen because you accidentally turned on the Narrator. It can be a big nuisance and also embarrassing when you are giving a presentation, or sitting in the waiting room at your doctor’s office. That’s when you have to try and quickly figure out how to turn the Narrator off. If you are presenting a Webinar and turn the volume off to silence the Narrator, then no one can hear you. Needless to say, it’s not fun to be in such situations. Here are a couple of key combinations that are good to know.<\/p>\n