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welcome back to Android q-and-a my name is Jason this is where we try and answer your most pressing Android questions and I got to tell you most of your pressing questions have been asked many times before and been answered multiple times over all you have to do is go to our channel with the little magnifying glass there and search your key word problem keywords are in our titles tags and show descriptions so it's not too hard to find probably your question has been answered more than once but I found a question that hasn't been asked before and I thought man millions of people probably have this problem let's try and solve it here we go our first and only question this week is all about those Android lovers who are visually impaired and we got a great question from Brett just about that hi Jace I'm legally blind and I'm looking for a new high-end cellphone can you help me find out who is able to compete with Samsung's s5s huge font capabilities thanks and I'm sure there are a lot of other people out there with the same question thanks Bret and I know that you already probably know the answer to this but I want to go through KitKat's basic accessibility features first go to settings then to accessibility and then you can see androids accessibility features like talkback magnification gestures large text and of course text-to-speech output now to the best of my knowledge these features are on all more recent Kit Kat updates now Bret you should know that I don't know the accessibility options of all Android phones but I did do some research that I found you and all visually impaired Android lovers might find very helpful and number one would be magnify you do this by turning your phone into an instant digital magnifying glass equipped with a flashlight magnified by apt lab is an innovative application that helps users see better by using their smartphone as a magnifying glass the app is great for reading tiny print visual impairment or people who are just too lazy to put their glasses on this app is handy and can serve a wide array of functions now 40 years from now when my eyes start to go I'm going to need an app like this to help me with navigation walkie talkie is one of the many apps by eyes-free project that helps blind people get along with their daily the app has an exceptional navigational aid that will greatly help people with visual impairment navigate the streets users will be able to get instant updates on their current location as the app has a built-in compass and will always point in the right direction if the user gets lost the OP will automatically vibrate and tell the user that he or she is going the wrong way now Breton answer to your specific question about fonts I found a phone app that should be available on most any Android phone this application will solve the problem of tiny font sizes font installer is an app that will enable users to install over hundreds of fonts on their device for better reading the catch is that your phone must have root access for the app to work properly if you manage to get past this requirement that all systems are a go for you you can change the fonts to what you want on your phone as well as make them big enough to read once a font is picked it will be applied globally and not just to a single application bonus thanks for watching android army my name is Jase love to connect with you here on Google+ or Twitter and you guessed it Bret you had a great question and affects a lot of people and it's a question we've never heard before I had never read before somebody you win the t-shirt thank you very much so please contact me via Google+ you just open up a hangout and say hi Jase give me your name and address and shirt size and I will ship that up to you as soon as I possibly can and I want to remind the rest of you if you want a t-shirt you have a question or you want to help answer an Android question you want to go over to the Android Authority forums post a question answer a question recommend people like them plus them up you're much more likely to win a t-shirt or a $50 Google Play gift card talk to you soon you don't wanna forget about my brothers and Android Josh Joe in the tech ninja Kevin lawn and Chris all working hard to deliver the best Android content on the web talk to you soon