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Magnify.exe causes mouse cursor to disappear in some games

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Because I could not locate a forum in the given list that made sense, i'm going to try this one.

I'm a legally blind user that like to play games on my windows pc's (windows 7 and 10). The problem is, I rely heavily on Windows Magnifier (Magnify.exe) to make in-game chat and other text visible, but for games that are Full-screen, this causes the mouse cursor to disappear behind the program... clicking still works, but without being able to see the mouse cursor on the screen, Magnify.exe become useless. Also, in these circumstances, the games going into full-screen mode typically causes the screen to zoom back out all the way, displaying the entire screen, and zooming back in does not work.

The irony here is that for games like World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, and League of Legends, the developers clearly state that if users experience a problem where their mouse cursors disappear, they should disable or close Magnify.exe in the Windows Accessibility settings. The reason this is ironic, is because if you are a user that needs windows magnifier to read text on your screen, this "work around" for normally sighted users works great for them, but essentially gives a giant middle finger to us (legally blind users).

My question, and the reason I am posting this in the MSDN forums, is:

1. Is there a known way for heavily graphic-intensive games to make use of full screen mode in a way that is compatible with Magnify.exe?

2. Is there some code in whatever languages these types of games (listed above) are developed in that I could provide to game developers as a basis for them to make their games accessibility-friendly?

I would really appreciate any helpful info or insights on this. Thank you in advance :)


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