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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Phil Bull</name>
      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
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    <desc>The universal access menu is the icon on the top bar that looks like a person.</desc>
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<title>Find the universal access menu</title>


<p>The <em>universal access menu</em> is where you can turn on various accessibility settings.
You can find this menu by clicking the icon which looks like a person surrounded by a circle on the top bar.</p>

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 <desc>The universal access menu can be found on the top bar.</desc>
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<p>To access this menu using the keyboard rather than the mouse, press
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq> to move the keyboard focus to the top bar.
A white line will appear underneath the <gui>Activities</gui> button - this tells you which item on the
top bar is selected. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the white line under the universal
access menu icon and then press <key>Enter</key> to open it. You can use the up and down arrow keys
to select items in the menu. Press <key>Enter</key> to toggle the selected item.</p>

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