The Mouse The mouse: Your computer system probably has a physical mouse attached to it. A physical mouse is not required for window eyes but window eyes can take advantage of it if there. Your mouse might be something on a wire or could be touch pad of some sort but regardless, it's the mouse. For example, as you move the physical mouse around the screen, you will notice that window eyes automatically reads and displays the information crossed. Typically, this is best suited for low vision users. This verbal feedback can greatly assist in making sure that a low vision user is where they think they really are. For example, a low vision user may only be able to read part of a filename by hovering the mouse over top of a filename. A low vision user will receive an audio feedback necessary to determine what the filename actually is. Let's just give a little example. Now typically, in this tutorial, I wasn't going to touch that physical mouse because to the blind user, the physical mouse is typically not that useful, but if you're low vision user it may be. So this is the only case in the tutorial to actually use the physical mouse to move it around. I’m still sitting at the desktop with Window Eyes running but I don't know where my mouse is at the moment, but now just let me kind of move it around and over some text WE: recycle bin And it said recycle bin. Now on the desktop there are these icons and we have a tutorial section on navigating your desktop. But there is also text beneath these particular icons representing visually what they are. Now this is my recycle bin and I moved my mouse over that, it automatically read that information. If I were to move it over any sort of graphic, WE: graphic you hear that as well, that's the graphic of the recycle bin they moved on top of. If I moved over here let's go over here yet. WE: Mozilla Mozilla WE: Firefox Firefox. If I go down WE: graphic that's the window eyes Icon graphic WE: Window-E Window-E. Now it only showed Window-E there because window is actually truncated and that’s all I see visually on the screen is window -- key... now it didn’t read... because my punctuation is set such that I don't want hear text will punctuation like. And things like that I can just move around and over the clock down here with end of my by running amount show you how this desktop is actually organized. I just want to show you the physical mouse WE: 11:09 a.m. It’s 11:09 a.m. that's the text that is down there in the system tray automatically read that when its down there. Now if the mouse pointer changes what it looks like and I’m not sure that I can do this on the desktop. I’m going to try to just quickly just run an application. Don't worry how I’m actually doing this here. I’ll show you more of this later on, that's not the point of this tutorial. Now here’s my WE: arrow Notice it said arrow there. My mouse pointer is an arrow pointing to the upper left. Say you’ve got this circle going around is probably pointing it out in a what that is maybe 10 o'clock or something like that pointing up in that direction. If I move it down here all of a sudden it changes to WE : sizes north-south size north-south. I moved it right on the border of my, I opened up in notepad window, right on the border. This size as a sighted user I can shorten down this window or increase it and make it taller and I need the sizing arrow to be able to do that. It's an arrow pointing up and an arrow pointing down. Now if I were to hold down the left mouse button and drag this it would either pull it up the public down depending on the direction you go. Now if I move down to read. I moved inside the document area of notepad and it changed back to I-Beam. This is basically window eyes is speaking what these particular icons are visually showing. Some people find this very useful because the application obviously changed the icon of the mouse to represent what's going on. In this case an icon indicates to me that if I were to click here I can start typing. If I'm in the sizing arrow it would tell me I could stretch it. Now let me show you another sizing arrow. Go to the bottom left of notepad and I was you it says you can get there WE: sizes northeast southwest size northeast southwest, this is an arrow pointing northeast-southwest which means I can ask you to drag in those directions as I go again, letting you resize notepad again. So if I change the sizing arrow this way, the left of notepad: WE: size west east Size west-east and again if I go back to arrow WE: graphic arrow in and again all these points are going to happen. Nice thing is that you hear an hourglass or something like that. The hourglass is used to represent that the application is busy doing something. Now again, sighted users have this advantage. So why not blind users? Well that's why we have this particular mouse pointer recognition happening to you, later on we’ll show you how you can turn that off if that is annoying to you and you don't like hearing that. We just don't like hearing the text the mouse is moving over because if you're totally blind user maybe you just accidentally bump your mouse and it starts reading all of this text you don't want hear. Well, we can turn that off. All of this is verbosity. We can tweak the way you want it to be. That's the power of window eyes. So we are going to talk about that a little bit later on the different sections of how you can do that. Also, of course, window eyes gives you greater flexibility moving the mouse around from the keyboard. So don't feel that you are required to use a physical mouse. In fact, you may want to set the mouse aside so it doesn't get in the way. Let’s just totally remove it because it may be causing more problems, but the cursor sighted friends will freak out simply because they don't know how to use the keyboard. You will find there are very quick ways to move around the screen without ever having to touch the physical mouse. So that’s all we needed to discuss about the physical mouse and again will get to the keyboard version of that later on.