How to Change Sound Setting via Ease of Access in Windows 10. Generally, configuration in Sound setting is made via Control Panel, but if you want a better preference, it is also available in Ease of Access setting. Through Ease of Access setting, you may configure various audio setting, such as volume, quality of sound as well as in UWP app sound, mono audio and so on.
How to Configure Audio Setting in Windows 10
At first, we have to know about how to open Audio setting via Ease of access setting.
- Open Windows Settings.
- Find out and click on Ease of Access.
- In another way, you can also open Ease of access setting via Run dialog box.
- Insert the following shortcut and click OK.
ms-settings:easeofaccess-audio
Make your Device easier to hear by Sound setting
There are two sections in Audio Settings page. The first one is where you manage the device easier to hear and the second one is for visual audio alerts.
You can control the volume of the sound by dragging the slider low or high under the Change device volume option. Dragging it to the right increases the audio and sliding it to the left reduces it.
One another feature in this setting is the Mono audio feature which ensures that even if a listener has a problem with one speaker or one audio channel, he will not miss a sound playing in the stereo or multichannel speakers. Once you enable it, the sound will play through the same stream on both the channels. Turning on this accessibility is really helpful for those whose only one speaker plays a sound because of complications like unsupportable channels with the hardware, or inappropriate encoding of the channels.
So, simply toggle ON the switch namely “Mono audio” to combine left and right audio channels into one single channel (see snapshot).
How to Show Audio alerts visually in Windows 10
This feature makes your computing experience smoother as it lets you choose the visual audio alerts. People with hearing issue can choose to display the notification alerts visually. In simple terms, when a notification sound plays, a visual display in the form of a flash would also be there. Being a Windows 10 user, you can Turn On or Off Visual Notifications for Sound.
- Get access to the Audio Settings page and locate the option “Show how visual alerts for notifications are displayed“.
- Click the drop-down and choose preferable action depending on your needs. They are –
1. No visual alert – Only a sound will play and no visual intimation would be there when a notification hits the PC screen.
2. Flash the title bar of the active window – The title bar of the window you are working on will only flash along with the sound to inform you about an alert.
3. Flash the active window – When the alert sound will play, the entire window that is open and active will also flicker.
4. Flash the entire screen – Here, the whole PC screen will blink in correspondence with the notification sound.
That’s all!!!