The Window Eyes Control Panel The Window Eyes control panel: The Window Eyes control panel offers a wealth of features and options. Window Eyes is extremely easy to configure to your specific likes and wants. Part of the ease of use comes from options like, what are in the Window Eyes control panel. You don't need to learn complicated scripting to configure windows, since Window Eyes is no different than any other application that is currently running. You can get the control panel by simply alt-tabbing to it or better yet, you can use the built in menu command we've used before in some of the earlier sections. At any time, you can simply press “control backslash” and the Window Eyes control panel will be displayed. For a complete list of all the options you should refer to Window Eyes menu. This tutorial will discuss some of the more common options and again when you first install Window Eyes, the control panel is set up in a beginner mode. So a lot of the intermediate and advanced options are not displayed so I’m not going to discuss those options. I'll be discussing a majority of the beginner options and we’ve already discussed some of them are ready so we should be up to go through this pretty quickly. Again I'm sitting back at my desktop with Window Eyes running and I've been using “control backslash” to bring up Window Eyes in the past, but just to show that the alt-tab works, now the alt-tab will only work when Window Eyes is running out of the system tray and I’ll discuss that a little bit later but that's an option that you can actually turn on to run Window Eyes on that system tray over there, but typically Window Eyes will come up running on the taskbar like any other application and you can alt-tab to it. Remember, in my case I'm running windows Vista, it’s a little bit different than the earlier operating systems. When I hit alt-tab I’m going to hold down the alt key and I’ll let you know when I let it go, but I'm keeping it down and I just have to tap the tab key one times, so hit tab WE: Window Eyes It says Window eyes. Visually, it brings up a window on the screen and shows me Window Eyes. Now there's another icon that showing here as well, so I’m still holding the alt key down and hit tab again WE: desktop Desktop is the other one, so with Windows Vista you always get the desktop as an option. Now under Windows XP and 2000 and 2003 if there's only one application running it will immediately go to that application. I just wanted to show that that's a little different, if you're confused of why maybe I saw two options and you saw one. I still have the alt key down and the hit tab again, puts me back to Window Eyes. That is going between these two. When I get to the application I want, then I let go of the alt key, WE: Window Eyes And Window Eyes pops up, so alt-tabbing is one way to get there, but control backslash is actually a much faster way to get Window Eyes popped up, so no matter where you are, you can do control backslash and pop it up, but alt-tab is there just like any other application that you want to get to, you can alt-tab to it. So the control panel is up and lets us go through some of the Main menu options off the top-level menu. When an application comes up, it typically has at the top of its window its title bar, and in our case it has Window Eyes, with the Window Eyes icon there. The next line below the title bar is typically the menu bar. This is a horizontal menu bar with menu options that typically start with “file,” and typically end with “help.” They don’t have to be in that order, but Window Eyes followed that setup. The easy way to get into the menu systems is to tap the alt key one time. When your application has focus, and you know it has a menu bar, you can just tap the alt key. Do that now. WE: File, f pull down It said file, f pull down. So I am sitting on the file menu, but it is not actually opened up, it just tells me that it is a pull down. This tells me that if I hit enter on this, it will open up. If I hit the right arrow key, it will go to the next menu item, which is… WE: Screen, s pull down Screen, s is the shortcut, and it is a pull down. Hit right arrow again. WE: Keyboard, k pull down Keyboard, k is the shortcut. And since k is the shortcut, I could just press alt-k and it would take me directly to the keyboard menu. Right arrow again. WE: Mouse, m pull down. Mouse. Right arrow again. WE: Hotkeys, o pull down Hotkeys. Right again. WE: Braille, b pull down Right again. WE: Global, g pull down Right again. WE: Help, h pull down. Right again. WE: System pull down Most applications are going to have a system pull down. Right again. WE: File, f pull down Visually, all you see is the file, screen, keyboard, mouse, hotkeys, Braille, global, and help menus. System pull down is something that is not visible, but it allows you to get there. So, while I am sitting on any of these pull down menus, I can hit enter and it will open up that menu. I’m going to go ahead and hit enter on file. WE: Save, s pull down We already saw that the save option will let me save my current settings. The set file and all dictionaries will be saved with this. Now under some of the advanced options, it allows me to save individual dictionaries, set files, and things like that. It gives me more options. At the beginner level, it lets me save all of my set files and dictionaries at the same time. To get to this option, just hit enter on the pull down option, and then arrow down to see each option. This menu only has one option. Hit enter. WE: Set file and all dictionaries Now, if I try to down arrow, nothing happens. Try to up arrow, nothing happens. There are no other options. This is the only one. I could hit enter and save these settings, or press the left arrow and go back to the file menu. WE: Menu closed. Save, s pull down Notice that it said, “Menu closed,” because that menu was closed, and I am back into the file menu with the save option highlighted. If I were to hit the right arrow, or hit enter, then it would open the menu back up again. Press the down arrow key once. WE: Manage sets and scripts, m pull down Manage sets and scripts. I’m going to have a lot to say about this option in a later section, but let me just show you what is in here. Press the enter key or tap the right arrow. WE: Scripting Status, u The first option is, “Scripting Status = on.” This allows me to turn scripting on and off. We will talk about that in a later section. Down arrow again. WE: Add or remove packages, a dialog Add or remove packages allows me to install or remove scripts. Down arrow again. WE: Script manager, m dialog Script manager allows me to be able to enable or disable individual scripts and set my security level. We will talk about that later. The next one is the one that I want to talk about. Set file manager, f dialog The set file manager allows me to individually select the factory set files that I want to have installed or uninstalled. Remember during the installation of Window Eyes, when we did the custom install, we had a dialog that had many checkboxes and radio buttons, allowing me to select the set file or configurations for applications. These configurations are Window Eyes configurations to make that application speak better. If I were to hit enter on this option, and I will…. WE: Menu closed, applications a, Access 2000, status, not installed, factory version 1.1, installed version, n/a, list view 1 of 72, dialog set file manager This is a list view that allows me to go through all the factory set files and it will show me the status of the set files. Now in this case, it said, “Access 2000, not installed, the factory version of this set is 1.1, installed version not applicable.” I can arrow down to all of the options that I want, and I can verify that these set files are installed. Let’s just type in “office.” WE: Office 2000, Word, Excel, Outlook Down WE: Office 2003… Down WE: Office 2007 Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, status installed, factory version 1.8, installed version 1.8, 36 of 72 Now I would expect these to be installed, because during the custom installation, we saw that it had Office 2007 selected because it saw that I had that installed, selected that version, and had it put in here. My factory version is 1.8, and the installed version is 1.8 as well. The status is installed. We did actually change the rate of speech earlier and then we saved it. So you would expect at least one set file to be installed, even if it isn’t the factory set file because we modified it. Let’s go down to the Window Eyes defaults. I’m going to type in “win” real quick. WE: Window Eyes defaults, status modified, factory version 1.4, installed version 1.4, 59 of 72 Here it tells me that I have the Window Eyes default settings, the status of those being modified. They are not installed and they are not uninstalled. They are modified, which means we have somehow changed them. It says that the factory version is 1.4, and the installed version is 1.4. So, I am using the latest installed factory set version, but I have changed them a little bit. Now if I wanted to go back to what those last changes were, I could go down and select the one that I wanted, and it will say what the status is, which is modified, and then you can tab off… WE: Information…. This is giving me information about the set file. It is kind of like the “read me” for this factory setting. Each version will have a different read me, and you can go down and read those if you choose to. Let me tab off of that. WE: Set files for Window Eyes, default s I’m going to silence that again with the control key. This shows me all of the files that are in this factory group. It will also show me individually which file is modified, if there is one that is modified. It will show me if it is installed, which means that it is not modified, or it will show me that it has been modified or not even there at all. So maybe I have gone in there and deleted certain files or changed certain files. This is just a way that I can go through and pick out individual files that are modified or changed. If my status is installed, then all of these would be installed, and none of them would be marked as modified in the file list. I can hit tab again. WE: Install, I button So install is where, if I hit enter, it would take my factory set files, that are untouched by me, and copy those into my active user area. This is how you could restore to the factory sets. A lot of times our tech support will have you do this if we can’t figure out the one setting that you did that is causing the problem. So if I hit enter here, it would actually change the rate change that I did earlier back to the normal rate. If I hit tab again WE: Uninstall, U button If I just want to get rid of something, I could hit enter here, and it would uninstall it. It is not a big deal if you don’t uninstall them if you don’t have them, again the disk space in very minimal, but you can clean this up if you want. You could go through each one and determine that you aren’t using a certain one, and you can uninstall those set files if you’d like. Tab again. WE: Update outdated, d button Update outdated is very good. It allows you to periodically download our upgraded factory set files. You can install those factory set files, or you can download them, but you don’t necessarily know what it has changed. For instance, let’s say that we have sent you an upgrade of Window Eyes and you upgraded from 6.1 to 7.0. We have updated a lot of the factory set files in this upgrade. So you wouldn’t know what has been updated. You could go through this list view of all of your options and you can see that the factory installed is 1.4 and the one I have is 1.3, so you could see that one got updated. You can install that one. You could also just say update outdated, and this will take any set file that is currently outdated, meaning its version is different, and it will re-install that particular option for you. It will not do it if it just modified and your factory version is the same as the installed version. This will update all of the versions that are outdated. Tab again. WE: Close, button This is the last control. So this is a nice way to be able to manage your set files. So if you have an application that was working and now it is not, you might want to think about re-installing the factory sets, or we might tell you to do that from our support group. I’m going to hit escape to get out of this. WE: Window Eyes And I’m going to hit alt-f to bring me back to the file menu. WE: F, file f pull down, save s pull down I’m going to down arrow quickly to get to the next option below “manage sets and scripts.” WE: Select synthesizer, y dialog If I hit enter on this, and I won’t bother doing it now, it brings up a dialog very similar to what you saw during the custom install. This is where you can actually change your synthesizer on the fly. So maybe I will show you this now. Go ahead and hit enter on this. WE: Menu closed. Synthesizers s, DecTalk Access 32 Window Eyes, list box, 7 of 22, dialog select synthesizer So, 7 of 22, I’m in the select synthesizer dialog, and I’m in the synthesizer list box. I am sitting on DecTalk Access 32 Window Eyes, which we selected by default during the installation of Window Eyes. Let’s say that I want to use Eloquence. I can press “e” WE: E, Echo pc or pg Now hit “e” again. WE: E, Eloquence, 12 of 22 Now remember that eloquence has 10 languages, and each language has five voices. So let me tab off of this list. I want to select the specific engine within eloquence. The same is true of SAPI. SAPI just means that I want the SAPI engines that are on my machine. Eloquence is the same thing. Window Eyes has, by default, 10 languages, and 5 voices for each language. Let me tab off. WE: Sound card, r, default card, combo box, 1 of 2 Now depending on the synthesizer that you have selected, different options will become available. If I have an external serial synthesizer, then I have to select the com port, etc. Those controls are there, but it’s disabled because for eloquence it does not make sense for those options. But it does make sense for the sound card. Now if I have multiple sound cards for my system, I could set it up so the eloquence comes up out of one sound card, and my system sounds come out of another. I can set that with eloquence. Not all synthesizers will let you set the default sound card for that synthesizer. Eloquence is one that does let you do that. Let me tab again. WE: Install engines, e, U.S English Reed, list box, 1 of 50 So it said U.S English Reed, 1 of 50. There are 50 options, because there are 10 languages that have five voices each. U.S English Reed is the default for English. Now if I were to down arrow…. WE: U.S English Shelley, 2 of 50 So Shelley is a version. Down again WE: U.S English Sandy, 3 of 50 Down again WE: U.S English Grandma, 4 of 50 Down again WE: U.S English Grandpa, 5 of 50 Down again WE: German Max, 6 of 50 And now we are going to the German Max. He is going to have five voices. All of the other languages will be in the same format. I’m going to go back up to Reed, so I’m going to hit the up arrow until I get there. WE: U.S English Reed, 1 of 50 So I’m back to Reed now. Let’s just quickly hear what he sounds like. I’m going to tab off again. WE: New specified speech parameters, u checkbox, unchecked. I’m not going to go into what these particular checkboxes are used for, but if you go back and forth between synthesizers a lot, maybe with DecTalk the rate of 35 works well for you, but when you switch to eloquence, 35 may be too fast or too slow for you, so it doesn’t make sense to have a global voice rate when you are switching synthesizers. So what we do is allow you to save the speech parameters (rate, pitch, tone, and volume) for each individual synthesizer. This is where it allows you to do that. You can say when you select U.S English Reed that you want a rate of 75, but when you go to DecTalk, you might want a rate of 35. That is something that you can do. The same thing for volume, pitch, and tone as well. Each of the individual synthesizers has that ability of being able to store that. But this is more of an advanced thing. So I can keep tabbing around until I get to the ok button, and it will accept that. But remember, if I have my num lock turned off, I can hit the delete key on the num pad, which I will do now… WE: default, ok button It tells me that the default button is “ok.” This means that if I hit enter now, it will accept “ok.” When I hit ok, lets listen to see what happens. WE: Window Eyes Notice the voice change. It is now speaking eloquence voice. If I go back into the file menu again…. WE: F, file f pull down, save s pull down I can down arrow to select synthesizer, or I can press “y” because that is the shortcut. WE: Y, menu closed. Synthesizer s, eloquence, list box, 12 of 22 dialog Let’s silence that with the control key. Now I am using eloquence. I could leave it that way, but I’m going to go back to DecTalk. I’m going to press “d” until I get back to DecTalk Access32 Window Eyes. WE: D, DecTalkAccess32 Window Eyes, 7 of 22 And I will hit enter. WE: Window Eyes. Now we are back to DecTalk. So that is how you can change your synthesizer on the fly without having to go back to the install to do that. Let me bring back the file menu by pressing alt-f. WE: F, file f pull down, save s pull down Down arrow quickly to select Braille display. WE: Select Braille display, b dialog Select Braille display. We actually talked about this in the Braille display section of the tutorial, so I am not going to go over it here. This where I can actually select my Braille display. This can also be set to none, if I do not want to select a Braille display. Down arrow again. WE: Startup options, r dialog Startup options. That’s worth talking about. So go ahead and hit enter on this. It said dialog, so I know that it will bring up a dialog. WE: Menu closed. Administrative options. Run Window Eyes at log-in screen. L checkbox, checked. Dialog, startup options. So this is where I can set-up whether or not I want Window Eyes to load up at the log-in screen or whether or not I want it to load after I’ve logged in at the main desktop screen. We saw that we could set this up during the installation, and this is how we can set it up after the installation. Now Windows Vista gets a little more paranoid about security. They don’t want just anybody to be able to go in there and make changes, and in fact, in Window Eyes we do not want a non-administrator to be able to go in and make changes, so if you are under Windows XP, these options won’t be available to you unless you are logged in as an administrator. If Window Eyes is running as an administrator, under an administrative account, then you’ll have the option of being able to set your log-in. For instance, if I was to log-in as Bubba, remember he was my account that does not have administrator privileges, then I would not be able to check or uncheck these checkboxes. I am currently logged in as an administrator in Windows Vista, but Vista goes beyond that, and is even more paranoid. They want to make sure that I know what I am doing even though I am logged in as an administrator. So if I were to change this option by hitting the spacebar, let’s see what would happen. WE: Space, checked, Run Window Eyes at log-in screen, L checkbox, ok button, dialog, startup options. Changing the option requires administrator privileges. Use the set options button to administrator privileges. So this was a message box with just an ok button and it told me I couldn’t do this without setting administrative privileges first. Again, under Windows XP, if I were an administrator, I could do it. Under Vista, I can’t do it. So I have to hit enter to accept this message. WE: Administrative options I’m going to silence that by tapping the control key. But it didn’t change the checkbox at all for me. So if I were to tab again WE: Administrative options, Run Window Eyes after log-in for all users, r checkbox unchecked Now if I hit the spacebar on this one… WE: Sapce, checked, Run Window… I just hit the control key to silence this. I got the same error message. So I’m going to hit enter. WE: Administrative options. They don’t want me to change log-in for all users. Again, if I’m not an administrator, I cannot change things for everybody else. We need an administrator to be able to do that. Even under Vista, if I’m an administrator, I still need to elevate myself through the user account control dialog. Let me tab again. WE: After log-in for current user, run Window Eyes using above configuration. U radio button, checked. 1 of 3 Now here, regardless of my authority in here, I can actually change this for myself because I want to control my environment. I can say that I want to use the above configuration after log-in. If I leave this checked, then I will get Window Eyes loaded for my account. If I down arrow through here… WE: After log-in for current user, run Window Eyes always. A, radio button checked. So now, even if I go back up and uncheck Run Window Eyes after log-in for all users, because I have set my specific account for always, Window Eyes will always log-in for me at the desktop. Down arrow again. WE: After log-in for current user, run Window Eyes, never. N radio button, checked. So this one says, “never.” So again, the checkbox says, “Run Window Eyes for all users.” But let’s say that I have a sighted spouse and they don’t necessarily want Window Eyes loading after they log-in. So they could go into their account and they could set it to “never.” So when they log-in, Window Eyes would not launch for their account. I’m going to arrow back up to use above configuration. Two up arrows. WE: After log-in for current user…. Now I am going to tab off. WE: Set-up main options, s button Here is the set-up main options. It is only available under Vista. If I hit enter on this button… WE: dialog, User Account Control, A program needs your permission to continue. If you started this program, continue, Window Eyes administrative start-up options, GW Micro, Inc., continue c button, default buttons, details, user account control, help stop an authorized change to your computer, cancel button This is a Windows Vista thing, it’s a user account control. You can disable this under Windows Vista, but it is on by default. Now if I press alt-c on this to continue, WE: Dialog, startup options… I am going to hit the control key to silence this. This now elevated this particular dialog to be run as administrator. Now remember, I am logged in as an administrator, but this now elevates me to actually be a full administrator for this dialog. That button is now disabled, and I can now check and uncheck those two checkboxes. Now let’s say I did this and I was logged in as Bubba, who is not an administrator. If I were to go down to set administrator options, that same UAC dialog would have popped up, and Window Eyes would have read it, but it would not have given me a continue or cancel button, it would have given me a user name and password. It does this because it wants an administrator user name and password to allow me to update myself, so that I can be running as an administrator temporarily for this dialog. Under Windows XP, if I am not logged in as administrator, I would never be able to check or uncheck those checkboxes. I would have to pick an account that does have administrator privileges. Then I could actually change these settings. Let me tab again WE: Ok, button And there is ok. Tab again WE: Cancel, button And cancel. So I am not actually going to change how I’m going to start up, but this is where you can do it. Hopefully this explains what the set administrator options are, and why you can sometimes changes these and sometimes you can’t. Window Eyes takes security very seriously and we want to make sure that only administrators can do what administrators should be able to do, and non-administrators can’t do things that they shouldn’t be doing. So let me hit escape to get out of this dialog. WE: Window Eyes I’m going to bring back the file menu by pressing alt-f. WE: F, file f pull down, save s pull down And let’s down arrow again quickly to startup options. WE: Startup options, r dialog Down again. WE: Exit, x dialog And that is the last option. If I were to hit enter, a message would come up asking me if I was sure that I wanted to quit. I could say yes and it would unload Window Eyes. That is all of the file menu. Let’s hit escape to get out of the file menu. WE: Menu closed. File F pull down Let me hit the right arrow key one time. WE: Screen, s pull down Screen menu. Let me pull down this menu. Remember how we talked about Window Eyes having a screen, keyboard, and mouse voice? Those three menus are available on the menu bar. I’m going to hit enter on the screen pull down menu. WE: Rate 35, r Rate 35. That is what we set the rate to be in a previous section. I used the control-alt-and arrow keys to set the rate. If I were to hit enter here, it would give me a dialog that would allow me to change the rate using a track bar that I could use the left and right arrow keys to decrease and increase the rate. This change would only affect the screen voice. Press your down arrow key. WE: Pitch 3, p Again, I could change that here specifically for the screen voice. I could also use the arrow keys like we did before. Down arrow again. WE: Tone I, t Same deal as the others. Down again. WE: Volume 9, o Same deal with volume. Down again. WE: Blank lines off, b This means that if I am in a word processor and I am down arrowing through the text, and we read each line as we press the down arrow, this option will allow Window Eyes to say either “blank line” or nothing when we reach a blank line. By default, this option is set to off, but if you go into a word processor, you will see that this option is actually turned on. That is all of the screen options. Under intermediate or advanced level, you will have a lot more options. Hit escape. WE: Menu closed. Screen s pull down Right arrow once. WE: Keyboard, k pull down Hit enter to open up the menu. WE: Voice on with characters, v The first option is, “Voice = on with characters, v.” This option allows you to select how you want the keyboard voice to pronounce individual things as you go along. If you have been noticing as I’ve typed, it will speak each individual character as I type it and it interrupts as I’m typing along as well. So let me hit enter on this and show you what this will actually do. WE: Menu closed. On with characters, list box, 2 of 8, dialog I am going to silence this with the control key. This brings up a dialog that has a list box and two buttons. The list box allows me to select the options that I want for my keyboard voice. Selected by default is on with characters. So I have a keyboard voice, and it is set to speak individual characters. If I up arrow, I get… WE: Off, 1 of 8 1 of 8 is off. Down arrow. WE: On with characters, 2 of 8 Down arrow. WE: On with words, 3 of 8 On with words means, instead of hearing each character as I type it, it would wait for me to actually hit the space bar, so it would then speak the word that I just typed. So when I type in “this is a test,” instead of hearing each individual letter, you would hear Window Eyes speak only the words. Down arrow again. WE: on with words and numbers, 4 of 8 On with words and numbers, again you would do the same thing, only numbers would also be buffered up. You would hear each individual number and word as you type them. If I typed 123, instead of hearing 1, 2, 3, you would hear one hundred and twenty-three. Down arrow again. WE: On with characters and words, 5 of 8 On with characters and words. With this option selected, you will hear each character and word as they are typed. Down again WE: On with characters, words, and numbers, 6 of 8 This is the same as the one above, but this one includes numbers as well. Down again WE: On with words interrupt, 7 of 8 On with words interrupt. Normally when you have “on with words,” and you are typing along, Window Eyes does not interrupt your speech as you are typing along. So no matter how fast I am typing, I am going to hear each of my words. So if I have this new option on, then as I am typing along, I will hear each word, but if I start typing the next word, it will interrupt the speaking of the previous word. Down again. WE: On wit words and numbers interrupt, 8 of 8 This is the same, just adds numbers with this option. I’m going to hit escape to abort these changes, and even though I am sitting on this last option, it will take me back to “on with characters,” which is the default. Hit escape. WE: Window Eyes. I’m going to press alt-k to bring the keyboard menu back up. WE: K, keyboard k pull down, voice on with characters, v The next four options are the same as the screen options that we went over. WE: Rate = 35, r Rate = 35. Down arrow WE: Pitch 3, p; Tone I, t; Volume: 9, o Those options we know how to change using the keyboard, or we could do them from here, by hitting enter on this and changing them using the track bar. Down arrow again. WE: Keyboard layout, k pull down Keyboard layout. If I open up this, by hitting enter or right arrow… WE: Default, d checked Window Eyes has a few keyboard layouts. The default layout is what our manual references, it is what this tutorial assumes you are using. But if I down arrow… WE: Laptop, L If you have a laptop that doesn’t have a numeric keypad, it may be difficult to use the default layout. So you could hit enter here, and all keyboard layouts would then switch to the laptop layout and you would have to refer to the section in the Window Eyes manual that talks about the laptop layout and where those keys are. Down arrow again. WE: Vocal Eyes, v It is not a very popular layout anymore, but we have left it here because there are a few die-hard old Vocal Eyes users, which was our DOS version of a screen reader, that had a particular keyboard layout. We offer that for Window Eyes users as well. The problem is that it is not that functional because a lot of the key presses collide with Windows key presses. There are very few people that would actually want to use this, but we have left this here for the few people that do. Down arrow again. WE: Jaws, J We also have a Jaws layout. So if you are a Jaws user, and you realize that Window Eyes has much more power, and you want to switch over to it, you might not necessarily feel comfortable because you are so used to the commands that you used with Jaws. Well here, what we have done, is try to simulate a lot of the key presses. There are a difference in philosophies between Jaws and Window Eyes. Obviously, we think that our ways are better, but there are differences none-the-less. So it is difficult to completely match the keystrokes. A lot of the major key presses that you would expect between screen readers, we have set-up to mimic that. That might be a way to ease you over to Window Eyes so that you can enjoy the power of Window Eyes, yet have the comfort of the keystrokes that you grew up on and learned. Those are all of the options, so go ahead and hit escape. WE: Menu closed. Keyboard layout, k pull down This is all of the options for the keyboard menu. If you were at the intermediate or advanced level, there would be more options to choose from. Press escape to get out of the keyboard menu. WE: Menu closed. Keyboard, k pull down I am back to the main menu bar. Press the right arrow to go to the next one. WE: Mouse, m pull down Let me hit enter on mouse. WE: Voice on with pointer identification delayed dictionary only, v That said voice = on with pointer identification delayed dictionary only. That means that the mouse voice is on. By on, that means when I move the mouse around, we are going to hear the text that the mouse lands on. When I hit the left or right button, it will say left or right. We will also hear the mouse pointer identification, which means we will hear the mouse pointer after it has settled down for a little bit. There are times where you might be in an application and the mouse pointer changes often from an I-beam to an hourglass and back. You probably wouldn’t want to hear the changes that often. So you might only want to hear it after it has been there for a bit of time. That is what it means by “delayed.” So the quick changes in the mouse pointer will not be heard. Dictionary means that you will only have the mouse pointer read to you if it is a system pointer that we already know about, or it is a custom pointer from an application that I have manually labeled. So we will not hear undefined pointers. Hit enter on this. WE: Menu closed. On with pointer identification delayed dictionary only, list box 4 of 6 dialog, mouse voice Ok, so we are in the mouse voice at dialog. We are on 4 of 6, which is the “on with pointer identification delayed dictionary only” option. Press “home” to get to the top of the list box. WE: Off, 1 of 6 If you do not want to hear any mouse pointers and you do not want to hear any text or mouse clicks, choose this option. Down arrow. WE: On with pointer identification off, 2 of 6 This option allows you to hear mouse clicks, and text when your mouse is over it, but doesn’t let you hear the pointer identifications. Down again. WE: On with pointer identification delayed, 3 of 6 This is very similar to what we started with, but it does not say “dictionary only.” So now, even if it is not a defined pointer, Window Eyes will tell you about it. Down again. WE: On with pointer identification delayed dictionary only, 4 of 6 This is what we started with. Down again. WE: On with pointer identification immediate, 5 of 6 This will give us all of the information of the mouse, plus we will get the information immediately and not delayed. Down again. WE: On with pointer identification immediate, dictionary only 6 of 6 This is the same as the previous one, but we will only read you the mouse pointers that are in the dictionary. I am going to go ahead and go back to the “off” option by pressing the home key. WE: Off, 1 of 6 I am doing this just to show you that we can turn the mouse pointer off, because the pointers can be confusing at times. Press enter while sitting on “off,” and that will select it. WE: Window Eyes So just to show you that it is off, I’m going to physically move the mouse around. (Moves mouse) I’m moving over text now, and we are not speaking anything as we are moving across. Press alt-m to bring up the mouse menu. WE: M, mouse m pull down, Voice off, v Voice off. That is what we just set it for. Down arrow. WE: Rate = 35, r Down arrow a few times. WE: Pitch = 3, p; Tone I, t; Volume 9, o We already know how to change all of those. If I want to make these permanent, we would need to save these settings, which I will do that in a little bit. So press escape to get out of the mouse menu. WE: Menu closed, mouse m pull down Press the right arrow one time. WE: Hotkeys, o pull down Hotkeys, let me hit enter on this. WE: Cursor, c dialog Here we have a menu that says cursor, mouse, browse mode, miscellaneous, user windows, and office. These are all different groups of hotkeys. Window Eyes is very powerful in that it has many hotkeys that you can press to reach certain things. We have factory settings for a lot of these, but because there are so many, we have undefined a lot of them, and in certain applications they only make sense. Here is where you can actually define what these hotkeys are. I am going to talk a lot about these keys in different sections of the tutorial, but I am going to show you how we can change some of these. I am going to hit enter on “cursor.” These are hotkeys that are related to the cursor. I want to be able to read the line underneath the cursor in Microsoft Word. There is a section in this tutorial that will talk about this more, but I’m going to go ahead and hit enter on this. WE: Menu closed. Keys, k character prior :undefined, list box… I’m going to go ahead and silence this with the control key. This brings up a dialog with a long list box of all of the cursoring hotkeys. This has radio buttons that actually allows me to select all of the other ones, so I don’t have to go back to the menu to get to the other options. Selecting one of those radio buttons would update the list box with the hotkeys for that option. The cursoring radio button is selected now, and my list box is showing all of the cursoring keys. If I were to select the mouse radio button, then my list box would show all of the mouse hotkeys. Let me down arrow one time. WE: Character :Control-numpad left arrow Character, control-numpad left arrow. I am going to talk about this key press later, so I’m not going to get into the details of it now. That is how I read the character under the current cursor position. If I want to change this, I would select the item that I want, hit tab… WE: Capture key. C button If I hit enter on this button… WE: Press a key for character Press a key for character. It is allowing me to define the key press that I want for reading the current character. So, let’s say we want control-shift-alt-f12 to be the hotkey. So I am holding down control, shift, and alt, and tapping f12. WE: Keys k, character :control-shift-alt-f12, list box That is how easy it is to change a hotkey within Window Eyes. I have now changed it from control-numpad left arrow, to control-alt-shift-f12. If I were to save this, that would become permanent for this particular set file. So in my particular application, it would now be that. So let’s say that you have a hotkey that is colliding with an application key press. Here is how you can come in and actually define it to bypass that. ZoomText uses a lot of the same key presses that Window Eyes uses. Well, those collide, and you can change either ZoomText or Window Eyes, so that they are not colliding with each other. We also have ways to bypass it, which I will talk about later. I think that is enough of the hotkey dialog, so I’m going to hit escape to get out of that. WE: Window Eyes. I’m going to hit alt to get back into the file menu. WE: File, f pull down Right arrow until you get to the hotkeys menu. WE: Hotkeys, o pull down I’m going to right arrow again. WE: Braille, b pull down We talked about all of the Braille options in the Braille section, so I’m going to skip over that. Right arrow again. WE: Global, L pull down Hit enter on that. WE: Menu level, Beginner M The only thing in the global menu is the menu level. This is where you can decide how many options are displayed on the menu bar. If I were to hit enter on this, and I will… WE: Menu closed. Beginner… I’m going to silence that, but it brings up a dialog with a list box of three options: beginner…down arrow WE: Intermediate Down arrow WE: Advanced When I hit enter on any of these three, it will reset my menu bar to that level. The higher the level, the more options that you will have. But I will not talk about anything above the beginner level. You can reference the manual to get to all of the other options. I’m going to hit escape even though I am still sitting on advanced, this will abort the setting and take me back to beginner. WE: Window Eyes We only have one more menu item to look at, and that is the help menu. Let me just press alt-h to get there quickly. WE: H, help h pull down, Window Eyes manual, w Window Eyes manual. This brings up the Window Eyes manual in Windows Help format. I have a whole section in this tutorial that talks about how to use the Windows Help. If I hit enter here, which I’m not, it would launch the Windows Help center system. This is a standard system that most applications use and brings up the entire Window Eyes manual. Down arrow again. WE: Window Eyes Scripting Manual, s The scripting manual is a programming type manual of how you can actually create scripts. This does not show you how to use the scripts, just how to write them. This is an advanced feature, and I will not be talking about that at all. This manual would load in the Windows Help format, just like the Window Eyes manual did. Down arrow again. WE: Window Eyes read me, r This is good, because a lot of times we make changes to our documentation after our documentation has been finalized for a version, and the read me file is a good last-minute place where we can add any sort of changes or corrections. If you hit enter here, it will actually launch Notepad. The read me file will appear and you can read through the Window Eyes 7.0 read me information. Down arrow again. WE: Tip of the day, t dialog By default, you get tip of the day when you launch Window Eyes. There is a checkbox there that you could uncheck so that you wouldn’t get the tip of the day. Well if you wanted to bring it back, here is where you would do so. So if you hit enter on this, it will bring up the tip of the day. The checkbox will still be unchecked, and you could check the checkbox again, so that it would come up automatically when you start Window Eyes. Down arrow again. WE: Error reporting, e dialog Error reporting. We are very proud of this particular feature. We feel that Window Eyes is the most stable screen reader on the market. We take stability very seriously at GW Micro, which is why we have our tag line, “Rock Solid.” Part of the reason that we can do that and still sleep at night believing what we are saying, is that we are the only screen reader that has error reporting. Error reporting with Window Eyes is similar to the approach that Microsoft uses, where they ask if you would like to send the error message to them after one of their applications messes up. If Window Eyes is involved in the problem, we generate some information very specific to Window Eyes that will tell us exactly where the problem occurred within Window Eyes. We can then look at that information without having to duplicate your specific problem in house. A lot of times that is impossible. We can’t duplicate everybody’s environment always in the GW Micro office. This allows us to see an error that has occurred and it allows us to look at the environment and see exactly what is going on. It doesn’t send any information whatsoever that is unique to your system. It only sends information about the applications that are currently running, where in Window Eyes it last ran before it encountered the error, and all of the program information underlying the low-level code that can help us pinpoint where this problem is. It does not even send us the serial number of your Window Eyes. We do not know who you are when you send it in. We have no information at all on your system, other than this particular error. It is a very secure option. It also gives you the option of giving us comments, which we like to know who sent it in. So we are hoping that you will tell us who you are, because we may have questions. We also might tell you that we have thought that we have it fixed and want you to try something. We hope that you do send in the errors. We take them very seriously. They have the top priority over anything else. Before we add new functionality, we always go through the error reports that we receive. We make sure that those errors are resolved. Down arrow to the next option. WE: Window Eyes update, u Window Eyes update. If you hit enter here, it will launch your current default browser window. It will take you to our web page and it will take your version number and your serial number and send it off to our web page. We will look you up in the database, and let you know if you are current, if you have SMAs left, basically just letting you know where you stand with our version updates. If you are eligible for an upgrade, it will allow you to download that particular upgrade. Free upgrades can be downloaded from this page. Down arrow again. WE: About Window Eyes, a dialog This is the last option that we have on the menu list. I’m going to go ahead and hit enter here. Pretty much every application has an “about” option on their help menu. Press enter. WE: Menu closed. Ok, button. Dialog, About Window Eyes. Window Eyes 7.0 Monday, September 15, 2008. Serial number:….Username: Doug Geoffray….Company: GW Micro….Written by Douglas Geoffray, Aaron Kaminski, Michael Lawler, Ronald Parker, and William Smith. Copyright 1995-2008. All rights reserved. GW Micro, Inc. 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825. 260-489-3671. www.gwmicro.com. Find a dealer, f button. Visit web site, v button. Default, ok button. There you go. So that gave us a lot of information. It told us the version number, date it was produced, and it gives us the serial number. Let me hit tab. WE: Serial number…read only, edit box So here, if GW Micro needs to know your serial number, this is a great way to find it. You can just bring up the help menu, tab once and you are in a read only edit box, and you can just arrow through this. Typically, the serial numbers are 10 digits long and start with P. Tab again. WE: Find a dealer, f button. If you want to find a dealer, you can hit enter on this button. It will launch your browser again, bringing you to the GW Micro web page and you can search for a dealer in your area. Tab again. WE: Visit web site, v button This just goes to our main home page, which is www.gwmicro.com. Tab again. WE: Ok. Button And ok. So I hit enter on this and it will close the dialog. WE: Window Eyes I can press alt-tab to go back to my original application, or hit escape. I’ll just hit escape. WE: Start button And I was on the Start menu when I brought the Window Eyes control panel up, so I’m back on the Start menu when I’m done. Those are all of the beginner menu options. There are a lot more under intermediate and advanced. Let’s go onto the next section.