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• Welcome to Window-Eyes 6.1
• End User License Agreement
• Window-Eyes Manual Instructions
• 1: Introducing Window-Eyes
  • 1.1: Welcome to Window-Eyes
  • 1.2: System Requirements
  • 1.3: Window-Eyes Features
  • 1.4: Package Contents
  • 1.5: Getting Technical Support
  • 1.6: How to Use this Manual
  • 1.7: Protecting Your Investment

• 2: Installing Window-Eyes
  • 2.1: A Bit About Synthesizers
  • 2.2: Quick Install
  • 2.3: Custom Install
  • 2.4: Window-Eyes and the Start Menu
  • 2.5: Installation Tips
  • 2.6: Advanced Install Options
  • 2.7: Uninstalling Window-Eyes

• 3: An Overview of Window-Eyes
  • 3.1: Where is Window-Eyes?
  • 3.2: The Window-Eyes Voice Control Panel
  • 3.3: Colors, Video Cards, and Highlight Tracking
  • 3.4: Getting Help
  • 3.5: Error Reporting

• 4: Speaking of Windows
  • 4.1: Where Windows and Window-Eyes Meet
  • 4.2: What it Looks Like
  • 4.3: How it Works
  • 4.4: The Windows Layout
  • 4.5: The Dialog Box, the Property Sheet, and the Message Box
  • 4.6: The Windows Display Screen
  • 4.7: Some MS Windows Keyboard Commands

• 5: Globally Speaking
  • 5.1: The Basics
  • 5.2: How it Works
  • 5.3: Global Versus Local Settings
  • 5.4: The Rest of the Global Menu

• 6: Setting Up the Voices
  • 6.1: The Basics
  • 6.2: How it Works
  • 6.3: Changing the Screen, Keyboard, and Mouse Voices
  • 6.4: Determining How Window-Eyes Reads Punctuation
  • 6.5: The Rest of the Screen Menu
  • 6.6: The Rest of the Keyboard Menu
  • 6.7: The Rest of the Mouse Menu
  • 6.8: Verbosity Settings

• 7: Speech Environments
  • 7.1: The Basics
  • 7.2: How it Works
  • 7.3: Saving SET files
  • 7.4: Opening SET files Manually
  • 7.5: Supporting Associations
  • 7.6: Keeping Track of Window-Eyes Active Files
  • 7.7: Closing Associations
  • 7.8: Converting Your SET files to Text and Back
  • 7.9: Changing Synthesizers
  • 7.10: Changing Braille Displays
  • 7.11: Window-Eyes and User Profiles
  • 7.12: Running Window-Eyes in the System Tray
  • 7.13: Startup Type and Fast User Switching
  • 7.14: Editing Dictionaries
  • 7.15: Loading and Reloading Factory SET files
  • 7.16: Exiting Window-Eyes

• 8: Introducing Window-Eyes Hot Keys
  • 8.1: The Basics
  • 8.2: How it Works
  • 8.3: Reading Characters, Words, Lines, Sentences, and Paragraphs
  • 8.4: Autodetect Cursor
  • 8.5: Reading from the Perspective of the Mouse Pointer
  • 8.6: Assigning Your Own Hot Keys
  • 8.7: Handling Duplicate Hot Key Definitions
  • 8.8: Which Keys Work
  • 8.9: Reading Parts of a Window
  • 8.10: Identifying the Mouse Pointer
  • 8.11: The Redraw Hot Key
  • 8.12: The Bypass Hot Key
  • 8.13: Reading User and Hyperactive Windows
  • 8.14: Reading Text Up To and After the Cursor
  • 8.15: Reading a Full Document Nonstop
  • 8.16: Reading Nonstandard Controls
  • 8.17: Reading the System Tray
  • 8.18: Time and Date
  • 8.19: Field Name and Data
  • 8.20: Speaking the Application Status Line
  • 8.21: Adjusting Voice Parameters on the Fly
  • 8.22: Speaking Progress Bars and Scroll Bars
  • 8.23: Battery Level
  • 8.24: The Key Describer

• 9: Reading with Cursoring Keys
  • 9.1: The Basics
  • 9.2: How it Works
  • 9.3: Practical Applications
  • 9.4: The Cursoring Key Definitions
  • 9.5: Cursor Delay
  • 9.6: A Cursoring Key Bonus
  • 9.7: Cursoring Keys in Standard Controls

• 10: Reading the Screen with the Mouse
  • 10.1: The Basics
  • 10.2: Moving the Mouse Pointer by Textual Units
  • 10.3: The Mouse Directional Movement Keys
  • 10.4: Moving by Windows Logical Units
  • 10.5: Routing the Pointer and the Cursor
  • 10.6: Restricting Pointer Movement
  • 10.7: Finding Things on the Screen
  • 10.8: Using the Physical Mouse
  • 10.9: The WE Cursor or the Mouse

• 11: Performing Mouse Functions with Window-Eyes Hot Keys
  • 11.1: The Basics
  • 11.2: Single and Double Click Hot Keys
  • 11.3: Moving the Mouse by Windows Controls
  • 11.4: Mouse Toggle Hot Keys
  • 11.5: Mouse Drag and Drop
  • 11.6: Route Mouse to Window

• 12: Setting Up and Using the User Windows
  • 12.1: The Basics
  • 12.2: How it Works
  • 12.3: Selecting and Adjusting the Current User Window
  • 12.4: Using the Mouse Pointer to Set Window Coordinates
  • 12.5: The Offset
  • 12.6: Window Logic
  • 12.7: Confining Your Reading to the User Window
  • 12.8: The Status of the User Window
  • 12.9: Getting User Window Status Reports
  • 12.10: Reading User Windows
  • 12.11: Show User Window Outline

• 13: Video attributes and Highlights
  • 13.1: The Basics
  • 13.2: How it Works
  • 13.3: Detecting New Video Attributes
  • 13.4: Highlight Tracking
  • 13.5: The Window Definition Menu
  • 13.6: Cursor and Mouse ANSI/Attribute

• 14: Hyperactive Windows
  • 14.1: The Basics
  • 14.2: How it Works
  • 14.3: The Hyperactive Window Definition Dialog Box
  • 14.4: Window and Command Precedence
  • 14.5: Turning Hyperactive Windows On and Off
  • 14.6: Troubleshooting Hyperactive Windows

• 15: Float Windows
  • 15.1: The Basics
  • 15.2: How it Works
  • 15.3: The Float Window Setup Screen
  • 15.4: Setting the Position
  • 15.5: Automatic Adjustment of Float Windows
  • 15.6: Some Practical Examples

• 16: Pronunciation Dictionaries and More About the File Menu
  • 16.1: The Basics
  • 16.2: How it Works
  • 16.3: The Word Exception Dictionary
  • 16.4: The Key Label Dictionary
  • 16.5: The Character Dictionary
  • 16.6: The Graphic Dictionary
  • 16.7: The Color Dictionary
  • 16.8: Mouse Pointer Descriptions
  • 16.9: Clearing the Currently Loaded Dictionary
  • 16.10: The Bubble Up Effect

• 17: The General Menu
  • 17.1: The Basics
  • 17.2: How it Works
  • 17.3: Turning the Voice, Braille, Hot Keys, and Cursoring Keys Off and On
  • 17.4: Setting the Highlight Track Status
  • 17.5: Tracking the Contents of Cells in a Spreadsheet
  • 17.6: Include User Window with Box
  • 17.7: Highlighted Text
  • 17.8: Turning Pronunciation Dictionaries On and Off
  • 17.9: Allow Speak Windows In Edit Boxes
  • 17.10: Cursor Delay
  • 17.11: Trigger Delay
  • 17.12: Space Threshold
  • 17.13: The Case of the Corrupted Screen
  • 17.14: Auto Speak Tooltips and Flashing Applications
  • 17.15: Browse Mode

• 18: The Braille Menu
  • 18.1: Scrolling Options
  • 18.2: Control Information
  • 18.3: Dot Patterns
  • 18.4: Translation Tables
  • 18.5: Hot Keys
  • 18.6: Options
  • 18.7: Graphics
  • 18.8: Apply Braille Settings to All Programs
  • 18.9: Braille Window

• 19: Working with the Internet
  • 19.1: What is Browse Mode?
  • 19.2: Access Keys
  • 19.3: Acronyms/Abbreviations
  • 19.4: Flash
  • 19.5: Forms
  • 19.6: Headings
  • 19.7: Languages
  • 19.8: Links and onClicks
  • 19.9: Lists
  • 19.10: Longdesc
  • 19.11: Objects
  • 19.12: Paragraphs
  • 19.13: Quotes/Blockquotes
  • 19.14: Tables
  • 19.15: More Navigation Options
  • 19.16: More Verbosity Options
  • 19.17: Web Developers

• 20: Working with Microsoft Word
  • 20.1: The Microsoft Word DOM
  • 20.2: Columns
  • 20.3: Fields
  • 20.4: Headers/Footers/Page Numbers
  • 20.5: Pictures/Objects
  • 20.6: References
  • 20.7: Revisions
  • 20.8: Sections
  • 20.9: Spelling and Grammar
  • 20.10: Tables
  • 20.11: Forms
  • 20.12: More Word Options
  • 20.13: More Verbosity Options
  • 20.14: Document Specific Settings

• 21: Working with Microsoft Excel
  • 21.1: The Microsoft Excel DOM
  • 21.2: Cells
  • 21.3: Charts/Objects
  • 21.4: Headers and Totals
  • 21.5: Monitor Cells
  • 21.6: More Excel Options
  • 21.7: More Verbosity Options
  • 21.8: Document Specific Settings

• 22: Working with Microsoft PowerPoint
  • 22.1: The Microsoft PowerPoint DOM
  • 22.2: Navigation
  • 22.3: Playback/Slide-Show
  • 22.4: Verbosity Options

• 23: Working with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
  • 23.1: Microsoft Outlook Calendar
  • 23.2: E-mail

• Appendix A.1: Hot Keys - Quick Reference Guide
  • A.2: Hot Key Definitions
  • A.3: Keyboard Layouts

• Appendix B.1: The Voice Control Panel
  • B.2: File
  • B.3: Screen
  • B.4: Keyboard
  • B.5: Mouse
  • B.6: Hot Keys
  • B.7: Cursoring
  • B.8: General
  • B.9: Braille
  • B.10: Verbosity
  • B.11: Global
  • B.12: Help

• Appendix C.1: Speech Synthesizers
  • C.2: Accent SA / Artic Transport
  • C.3: Apollo I and II External
  • C.4: Audapter (Serial Only)
  • C.5: Blazie Synthesizers including Braille 'N Speak
  • C.6: DECtalk Access32 (Window-Eyes)
  • C.7: DECtalk Access32
  • C.8: DECtalk Express/USB
  • C.9: Echo PC and Echo GP
  • C.10: Keynote Gold SA
  • C.11: LiteTalk and DoubleTalk LT (Serial Only)
  • C.12: SMP
  • C.13: Speak-Out (Serial Only)
  • C.14: Speech Application Program Interface (SAPI 4 & 5)
  • C.15: Triple Talk PCI/USB
  • C.16: ViaVoice
  • C.17: Virtual (Citrix MetaFrame)
  • C.18: Virtual (Microsoft RDP)

• Appendix D.1: Braille Displays

• Appendix E.1: Application Specific
  • E.2: Adobe Acrobat
  • E.3: Citrix MetaFrame XP
  • E.4: Microsoft Terminal Services and Windows XP Professional Remote Desktop

• Appendix F.1: Miscellaneous
  • F.2: Reading Command Prompts in Windows
  • F.3: SET2TEXT and TEXT2SET Utilities

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