Installation Installation: Your copy of Window Eyes comes with a talking install. But for it to talk, you will need a sound card in your system. If you do not have a sound card, you can still install Window Eyes and configure it for whatever synthesizer you will be using, but the install will not speak automatically. You will either need a previously installed screen reader, or sighted assistance. But since a majority of computers today come with a working sound card, this shouldn’t pose a problem. Installing Window Eyes on your computer system is extremely easy. Assuming you have a sound card, then all you have to do is insert the Window Eyes CD. Assuming you have the auto-start feature enabled, which it typically is by default, the installation program will automatically start up. The auto-start is a feature that will automatically start a specified program on a newly inserted CD. After inserting the CD, the setup program will automatically begin. If you do not have the auto-start feature enabled, or for whatever reason after waiting 60 seconds and you still do not hear anything, you will need to start the install manually. To do this, simply follow these steps: 1. While the CD is still in the drive, press control-escape. This will bring up the start menu. 2. Press arrow up until you get to the run option and press enter. 3. Type d:/setup and press enter. If your CD-ROM is not designated as drive D, then simply insert the correct drive in place of “d:.” Again, my computer is using Windows Vista as of the recording of this tutorial. Windows Vista is the latest operating system from Microsoft. Windows Vista actually handles things a little bit differently due to security issues. Windows Vista has a feature called UAC, or User Account Control. This is a dialog that pops up, asking you to make sure that you are about to run something, getting your permission that you are running something that might potentially install something dangerous or something bad to your system. Most setup programs will launch this UAC dialog. This is also true for Window Eyes. Unfortunately, until you have Window eyes installed, this UAC dialog will not be voiced. You have a little catch-22. Once Window Eyes is installed, all future versions of this dialog will be spoken beautifully by Window Eyes. I am going to go ahead and insert the Window Eyes program CD into my Windows Vista machine, and as I do this, lets listen to what happens. There goes the drive door just shut. We will wait a few seconds here for it to come up. It is taking it a while for the drive to come up to speed. There was a little ding that indicated the first dialog has come up, which is questioning whether or not we want to run a program. By default, the run option is selected, so you can still do this without sighted assistance. Once you hear the ding, or the CD-ROM drive spinning back down again, I can assume that this dialog is up and I can hit enter. This process takes about 30 seconds. Now if I am not running Windows Vista, the install would have just started and you would have heard the install start. This is only a Windows Vista thing. So I’m going to go ahead and hit enter on this to run the setup program. It will take it a little bit to get the CD-ROM back up to speed. Now we actually have the user account control dialog popped up. This one actually requires me to press alt-c to continue. Again, this is not accessible until Window Eyes is installed. I’m going to go ahead and press alt-c, and I can tell because the CD-ROM spun down. Now it is going to spin back up again and it is going to start. WE: Welcome to the Window Eyes 7.0 startup program. This program will guide you through the installation process. Press “s” or enter to run the install with speech output. Press “w” to run the install without speech output. Press “t” to listen to the tutorial in mp3 format. Press “r” to replay this welcome message. Press “x” to exit. Now that may seem a little bit confusing, because that was actually my voice (Doug) that read that message, but that message is on your Window Eyes CD and is voiced using a pre-recording of my voice. I let it read through completely so that you could hear what it said. So don’t be surprised when you put the CD in and hear my voice coming in. We decided to use a human voice on this so we didn’t have to actually play synthesized speech. We are basically asking you at this point, how do you want to install Window Eyes, or do you want to install Window Eyes? There were a few options that you had there. You can run the install with speech. As it said, you can press “s” or enter and the installation will now continue and it will be a self-voicing install. The way that it actually does the self-voicing install is it runs a temporary copy of Window Eyes. It is a small version of Window Eyes, where there is just enough of it there to actually talk you through the install itself. So, Window Eyes is kind of talking its way in. There is also an option where you can press “w” to run the install without speech. This would be useful if you have a sighted individual or low-vision user who doesn’t necessarily need the self-voicing install. The same thing gets installed, just one of them will talk you through the install, while the other one won’t. That is the only difference between these two. It also has the option of playing the tutorial. If you press “t” it will play the tutorial. That is basically what you are listening to now. It will give you the option of playing the different sections of the tutorial. If you press “r,” it will replay that original message. There are a few other options that were not voiced at the beginning because they are advanced options. The advanced option lets you go and do some more advanced type functionality. This button will only be voiced after you have installed Window Eyes. Then you can put this CD back in, and Window Eyes will read this button. Let’s go ahead and install Window Eyes using speech. Go ahead and press enter or press “s” as long as you haven’t tabbed off of this button. “Run install with speech” is the default option. Press enter. WE: Please wait while install is loaded with speech. Again it played my voice, saying, “Please wait while install is loaded with speech.” If you can hear your CD-ROM spinning, it has come back up to speed and it is loading some files, and it will eventually install a temporary copy of Window Eyes long enough to let you install the real, full version with the options that you’ve selected. Pretty soon we will start to hear Window Eyes speaking using DecTalk Access32, which is our default voice. We ship the voices with it, the other synthesizers, including Eloquence, but DecTalk Access32 is the voice that we default to. We should be hearing Window Eyes very soon here. WE: Window Eyes 7.0, Yes Y button dialog, quick install. Welcome to the Window Eyes setup program. This program will install Window Eyes on your computer. Do you wish to use the quick install? If you answer yes, very few questions will be asked and the installation will be extremely simple. However, if you wish to install Window Eyes using options different than the defaults, you should answer “no” to this option. Default, yes “y” button. No “n” button. Cancel “c” button. Arrow So you can see Window Eyes came in automatically and read our dialog. The first thing Window Eyes said was its version number, so it said Window Eyes 7. 0 because that’s what it is. Then it read the default button, which is the button on the dialog that was either up, or just came up, and in our case this dialog was up, so it said, “Yes y button.” Then it read the entire contents of the dialog, including the yes button again. The nice thing about reading the focus control is that you know what you are doing, the dialog came up, you hear immediately what the default button is, and you can hit enter or whatever you want to do. You can also just sit back and listen to the message box that came up. Window Eyes, by default, can determine a message box from a dialog box. A message box is typically just a message, something informing you that normally has a yes or no button, or do you want to save before you exit, things like that. Dialog boxes are more complicated dialogs. They will ask you much more complicated information and have controls, checkboxes, or radio buttons, things like that where you need to input information. By default, Window Eyes will read message boxes in their entirety. If it thinks it is a dialog box, it will just read you the focused control. You can go off and we will show you throughout this tutorial how you can reread information, if you want to read the entire dialog, or if you always want to hear the entire dialog, you can do that. All of this we will get into later on. Right now, we are just focused on getting Window Eyes installed. You will see that the first dialog presented is the quick install dialog. This dialog gives you two choices. If you select “yes,” the quick install will be used. If you select “no,” the custom install will be used. The quick install makes some assumptions about what you do and do not want installed. It is very easy to change these assumptions at any point. The typical first-time user will typically want to use the quick install since it is very simple and very fast. In order for Window Eyes to be installed on your system, it needs to know the following things: 1. Your full name, and company, if appropriate; 2. Acceptance of the Window Eyes end user license agreement; 3. Where on your hard drive to place Window Eyes; 4. What voice synthesizer you want Window Eyes to use by default; 5. DecTalk 32 and Eloquence voices are installed automatically; 6. What Braille display you want Window Eyes to use; 7. What set files you want to install; set files are configurations designed for specific applications; 8. If you want the text version of the Window Eyes manual installed on your hard drive; 9. What, if any, shortcut option key should be set up so you can launch Window Eyes from anywhere; 10. Do you want Window Eyes to start up automatically when your system is turned on, and if so, exactly how; if you choose to install using the custom install, you will be prompted for all of the above information. If you choose to install using the quick install, you will only be prompted for your full name and company, if appropriate, along with the acceptance of the end user license agreement. Window Eyes will then assume the following for the other 8 items: 1. Window Eyes will install in the drive c:/program files/gw micro/window-eyes 2. Window Eyes will be configured for the DecTalk Access32 synthesizer; 3. 10 languages of Eloquence will be installed. Each language has five different voices available. Although Eloquence is installed, DecTalk Access32 is still the default synthesizer; 4. No Braille display will be configured; 5. All of the major set files will be installed for the most common versions of the applications; 6. The text version of the Window Eyes manual will install at c:/program files/gw micro/window-eyes/manual, assuming c: is the operating system drive; 7. Control-alt-w will be the Window Eyes shortcut hotkey; 8. Window Eyes will be configured to start-up automatically when your system is powered on. This includes the log-on screen, if your system is set to boot-up to the log-on screen and at the desktop once your system has logged in. Remember, any and all of these options can easily be changed at any point, without having to re-install. So don’t worry if you didn’t select the right set file or later want to add a Braille display or a different synthesizer. So I’m still sitting at the quick install dialog box. Let’s select the “yes” option to initiate the quick install. So I’m going to go ahead and hit enter because it is still sitting on yes. Now I can tab through these controls, if I didn’t quite catch it, or if I want to know what my options are. I’m going to hit tab. WE: No, n button No, n button, which means “n” is the shortcut. Tab again. WE: Cancel, c button Cancel, c is the shortcut. Tab again. WE: Yes, y button And I’m back to the yes button. So there are only three buttons on this. I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself, but if you did want to re-hear a dialog box or a message box that is up on the screen that Window Eyes might have read for you automatically, but you want to read it again, you can just hit control-shift-w. Hold down the control key and the shift key, and while those two keys are down, I’m going to tap the “w” key. WE: Quick install. Welcome to the Window Eyes set-up program (silenced) Now I’m going to silence that. So I tapped the control key to silence the speech of that. But control-shift-w reread that entire control dialog box. Whatever the active window is that sighted users can see right away, control-shift-w will just start to read that again and tabbing will take you between those controls. So I’m still sitting on the yes button, so I’m going to go ahead and hit enter on yes. WE: Name a, edit box, dialog user information OK, now this box came up and this is a dialog box. We talked a little bit about the difference between a message box and a dialog box. This is a dialog box that has three edit boxes and the three buttons that we saw before. Window Eyes didn’t automatically read the entire content of this dialog box because it recognized it was a dialog box. The box probably had lots of controls and would be complicated to listen to the entire thing. It said this was the user information dialog box, and I’m sitting at the name edit box. This is allowing me to register my copy of Window Eyes by letting me type in my name and my company, if I have one. I have to give it at least my name in order for the install to continue. Again, if you wanted to hear this entire dialog, press control-shift-w. I’m sitting at name, and if I wanted to know what this was again, I could tab off of it and go back to it. I’m going to hit the tab key. WE: Company o, edit box The next one is company. Well, I want to get back to name, so I can either tab all of the way back around, or I can press shift-tab, which will take me to the previous control. Press shift-tab. WE: Name a, edit box Name, with a as the shortcut. I could have done an alt-a to go directly to the edit box. I’m going to go ahead and type in my name. WE: D o u g G e o f f r a y Notice when I typed the capital letters, Window Eyes spoke in a higher pitch. The letters “D” and “G” were a higher pitch than the other letters. Go ahead and type your own name into this field. When you are done, just tab to the next control. Hit tab. WE: Company o, edit box It wants to know your company. If you do not have a company, go ahead and leave this blank and tab off of it. I’m going to go ahead and type in my company, which is GW Micro. WE: GW M i c r o Now I am purposely typing slowly so that you can hear Window Eyes speak each letter. If I were to type faster, Window Eyes would not be able to keep up. I’m going to tab again. WE: Serial number s, read only edit box Now this said that it was a read only edit box. Notice that the others were not read only. I could actually type in them. Here it is telling us our serial number, and putting is in a read only edit box. That means that I can only read the content. We are not allowing you to change your serial number. It wouldn’t make sense to do that. If you try to change something in this box, Window Eyes will not let you do it. I can read through this character by character, but it has already selected the entire serial number. I’m going to hit the home key to go to the beginning of my serial number. Then I can just hit the arrow key left and right to hear each character. If I hit the right arrow key, I will hear the second character. We will talk later about how to read relative to the cursor, so I’m going to hit right arrow and then left arrow real quickly so we can hear the first character. WE: P There it said “P.” Keep hitting the right arrow to hear each character. Your serial number will most likely start with “P,” and have 9 digits after it. Each serial number is 10 characters long. That serial number is registered to you. Each Window Eyes CD is individually serialized, so that serial number is registered to you. It is important that you contact us and send in your registration information or make sure that we register it to you directly. Window Eyes itself is not usually copy protected, but it is individually serialized. The serial numbers can be tracked back to the original user. Since it is not copy protected, you are authorized to install Window Eyes on as many machines as you’d like, as long as you are the only user that is using it. This serial number is what we use to guarantee that will happen. I’m going to tab off of this. WE: Next, n button This takes me to the next button. And tab again, which is what we want to do. WE: Cancel, c button Cancel. Tab again. WE: Back, b button Back allows me to go to the previous dialog. So if you wanted to change something in the previous dialog, you could go back there. Tab again. WE: Name a, edit box So I’m back where I started again. I could tab down to the next button, or if I was listening I knew that “n” was the shortcut. I’m going to press alt-n because I know that was the shortcut for the button. WE: N. I do not accept the terms of the license agreement, d radio button, checked, 2 of 2 dialog. Window Eyes 7.0 setup This brought up another dialog, which is why Window Eyes did not read the entire contents. It just read the focused item, or the item that currently has keyboard input and sighted users attention. It read the title bar of the particular dialog that just came up. This dialog happens to be the Window Eyes end user license agreement that you would need to go through and actually read it before you accept it. Everybody reads the end user license agreements, right? Before we can accept this, because by default it is selected to not accept this, we need to show you how to read this. If, after you read this, you do not agree with what is written, you can tab down to the cancel button and cancel the installation. So to read this, press the tab button. WE: Print, p button Print actually allows you to print the license agreement off, assuming that your computer system is set up with a printer. I’m going to tab again. WE: GW Micro, Inc. End user license agreement. This end user license agreement… I’m going to silence this here, but what this does is it brought me into an edit box, and by default, we are going to read you the contents of the visible part of this edit box. The entire contents of the edit box are selected, so I’m going to hit control-home to get to the top of the edit box. I am now at the first line. WE: End user license agreement. Down arrow one line at a time by pressing the designated down arrow key. This is the upside-down “T” where you have the left arrow key, down arrow key, right arrow key, and above the down arrow key is the up arrow key. Again, we are talking about a full keyboard here. I can hit the down arrow to go through this one line at a time and I can read this entire license agreement. We won’t make you read this on the tutorial, but we would encourage you to read this agreement before you install Window Eyes. After you have read through this agreement, we are going to assume that you agree with it, so now I can tab off of this again. Tab. WE: Back, b button That takes me to the back button. That allows me to go to the previous dialog. Tab again. WE: Cancel, c button Cancel allows me to cancel the entire install. Tab again. WE: Accept the terms of the license agreement, a, radio button, unchecked, 1 of 2 So this told me that we are on the “I accept the terms of license agreement” radio button, but it is unchecked. So if you do want to accept this, you would go to this and press the spacebar. WE: Space, checked, I accept the terms of the license agreement. So now it said that it is checked. Now that we have accepted the license agreement, we can continue on. We will find now that our next button is available. Tab again. WE: Print, p button There is the print button. Tab again WE: GW Micro, Inc... Tab again. WE: Back, b button Tab again. WE: Next, n button And there is the next button. Again, I could have hit alt-n since “n” is the shortcut for the next button. Almost all “next” buttons will have “n” as the shortcut, so you can use that instead of having to tab around all of the different controls. I’m going to hit enter now to actually accept the end user license agreement. At this point it will not ask me any more questions until the installation is complete and the final dialog comes up. WE: Window Eyes 7.0 setup, cancel button, dialog Window Eyes 7.0 setup, setup status, Window Eyes is configuring your new software installation, install shield, default, cancel button It just brought up a little dialog, install shield is actually displaying the contents of the files that are being installed and the process that’s going on here. Now we’re not actually reading the progress bar here. It is giving me an indication that it is about 50% done, now 60%, and so on. There are actually some very nice options in Window Eyes where we can read progress bars, but since we are using a temporary copy for the installation, then it is not fully there. WE: Window Eyes 7.0 setup Still doing some installation here, and again, depending on the system that you are using, I am using Windows Vista now, and with Windows Vista I actually didn’t have to reboot my computer. WE: Reboot computer now, r button. Dialog, quick setup complete, Thank you for choosing GW Micro and Window Eyes. Your quick installation of Window Eyes is now complete. For your convenience, control-alt-w has been set-up as a system shortcut key. This means when Window Eyes is not running, you can press control-alt-w to launch your copy of Window Eyes. Before you can use the new copy of Window Eyes, you must restart your computer. If you wish to restart your computer now, please select the restart computer button. If you wish to restart later, please select the restart later button. If you have any questions or comments, please contact our technical support department at 260-489-3671 or via e-mail at support@gwmicro.com, default restart computer now, r button, restart computer later, l button, cancel, c button I didn’t want to interrupt that there, but this is the final dialog, allowing us to restart the computer, and it is very important that after you do the install, you do select the restart computer now. There is an option that allows you to restart later, but it is very important and Window Eyes actually will not run until you reboot your system. Anytime that you install something and it suggests that you reboot, it is a good idea to do it immediately, if you can. But we realize that you might have had some open files or something that you’d like to save first, so that is why we gave you the restart computer later option. The quick install made all of these choices for us, and told us that we can restart the system now and that the installation is now complete. So I’m going to go ahead and select the restart now option and Window Eyes will come up talking, but I’m not actually going to go on and use it yet. What I would like to do is go ahead and uninstall Window Eyes, so that we can go through the custom install option. I’m actually going to stop the recording until my computer can reboot. I’m going to select the uninstall option of Window Eyes. I’m going to reboot my system then again and then I will put the CD back in and choose the custom install option. So I’m going to go ahead and stop the recording until we get back to the custom install option. This would take a few minutes in real time. And thanks to the power of editing, we are back. I have done what I said. I have rebooted my machine after the install of Window Eyes, then I picked the uninstall option by going to the control panel, and selected add/remove programs, and I removed the Window Eyes that was there. I rebooted again and then we are going to go ahead and insert the CD once again. I started to explain before I was cut off by Window Eyes during the last dialog that one of the things that may be different for you, if you are running anything other than Windows Vista, if you noticed that when I chose install with speech that it didn’t require any rebooting, it just immediately launched Window Eyes and took me into the install dialogs. At the end it asked me to reboot. If you are running Windows XP, or Windows 2000 or 2003, you will notice that it is a little bit different. You will get the “please wait while install with speech is being loaded” message that comes up when you select install with speech. The hard drive and CD-ROM will run, and then you will find that what happens is you will get another message using my voice that says something like, “In order for the installation to continue, your system needs to be restarted. Press enter to go ahead and restart your system.” What is happening there is that under those operating systems, in order to have the temporary copy of Window Eyes voice the install for you, we have to actually initiate a restart right there. So after that restart occurs, Window Eyes will automatically come back up. Now if you have your system set to log you in, meaning you have to type a password to continue on, you will need to do that without speech again. During this install, if you automatically log into your desktop system where you don’t have to type a password, then Window Eyes install will just start up. So either way, if you have to log in or you don’t, Window Eyes install will just pick right back up and then it will be exactly as it was earlier, where it asked for the quick or custom install, and your name and company name, etc. Only difference is, that at the end, when it asked us to reboot the first time, we will not have to do that then since we have already rebooted. Only one reboot is needed, and in Windows XP, 2000, or 2003, the reboot is done right away. With Windows Vista, it is done at the end of the install. We like to use the most recently released applications for our tutorials, so that is why I am using Windows Vista. We will now go ahead and install Window Eyes again, but will use the custom install option this time. WE: Welcome to the Window Eyes 7.0 startup program. This program will guide you through the Window Eyes installation process. Press “s” or enter to run the install with speech. Press “w” to run the install without speech output. Press “t” to listen to the tutorial in mp3 format. Press “r” to replay this welcome message. Press “x” to exit. So there you will see that that message was exactly the same as before. I’m going to go ahead and hit enter to run the install with speech. WE: Please wait while install is loaded with speech. And again, if I was using Windows XP or one of the older operating systems, you would hear that message, but then the next message would be something like, “In order for the installation to continue, you must reboot your system. Press enter to reboot.” And that would make it go on. For Vista users, the temporary copy of Window Eyes will come up. WE: Window Eyes 7.0 quick install. Welcome to the Window Eyes setup program. This program will install Window Eyes on your computer. Do you wish… I’m going to go ahead and silence that since we have already heard this before by tapping the control key. Previously, I had hit enter for “yes,” because I wanted to do the quick install. This time, we want to choose no. So I’m going to tab over to no. WE: No, n button Ok, so I am going to say no to the quick install. Now I can hit enter. WE: Name a, edit box, dialog user information I am back to the same user information dialog. I won’t bother reading the entire thing. It is asking me for my name, so I will type it in. WE: Doug Geoffray The faster you type, the more letters that will be clipped when they are pronounced. This is a verbosity option that you can change depending on how you want your keyboard to speak. I’m going to tab down again. WE: Company o, edit box If you don’t have a company, just leave this one blank. I’m going to go ahead and type in GW Micro. WE: GW Micro Tab again. WE: Serial number, read only edit box Tab again. WE: Next, n button Now I hit enter to get to the next dialog. WE: I do not accept the terms of the license agreement, d radio button, checked 2 of 2, dialog Window Eyes 7.0 set up So here again we are prompted for the end user license agreement. Once we have accepted the terms, at this point I can just up arrow to go between the different radio buttons. Hit up arrow one time. WE: I accept the terms of the license agreement. A, radio button, checked 1 of 2 Now I can tab until I get to next. Press tab. WE: Print, p button There is print. Tab again. WE: GW Micro That is the edit box. Tab again WE: Back, b button Back button. Tab again. WE: Next, n button Again, I could have done alt-n, but I am just going to tab there. Hit enter. WE: Next, n button. Dialog, Window Eyes 7.0 setup, select folder where setup will install files, install will setup files in the following folder: to install to this folder, click next; to install to a different folder, choose browse and select another folder, destination folder, group box, browse r, dialog button c:/program files/gw micro/window-eyes; install shield, back, b button, default, next button, cancel, button Ok, I let that go ahead and read the entire dialog as you will hear it read yours as you go through the install. It said that the default directory that Window eyes will be installed in c:/program files/gw micro/window-eyes. This is what we talked about before. This is the default and this is the suggested location of where you want to install Window Eyes. If this isn’t where you’d want it, you would tab to the browse button that we heard, and hit enter, and that would allow you to select the location that you do want to install it. But for this purposes, we are going to assume that you will accept the default because, unless you are an advanced user, that is where you should put it. So I am going to go ahead and hit enter. This will take me to the next dialog. I am going to accept the default that it offered here. WE: Next, n button, dialog Synthesizer selection dialog, synthesizers none I’m going to silence this particular dialog. It is going to go ahead and read this entire dialog as if it were a message box because part of the algorithms that Window Eyes uses to determine if a dialog is a message box or not is, if the focus or the control that has the sighted users’ attention, is a button, then it will typically read this as a message box. That means it will read the entire contents. This has quite a few controls on it, but specifically it is allowing you to select the synthesizer that you want Window Eyes to default to. Now by default, as we mentioned, it is going to be using DecTalk Access32. Window Eyes also includes Eloquence, or a hardware synthesizer, or one hooked up to a com or USB port. You can go ahead and select that. The way that you do that is again I’m sitting at the next button because it is assuming that I want to accept the default. If I tab around, let me hit tab once. WE: Cancel, c button Tab again. WE: Back, b button Tab again. WE: Synthesizers, s dialog; DecTalk Access32, Window Eyes, list box, 7 of 22 Notice that it said 7 of 22. There are 22 different synthesizers that I can select from. Actually, there are far more than 22 synthesizers, because for instance, one of these options is SAPI. SAPI is a generic interface that Microsoft came up with that allows manufacturers to create their synthesizers using a standard protocol or standard interface called SAPI. Speech Application Program Interface. And if they write their synthesizer using that approach, then when you select SAPI, Window Eyes will automatically go off to the system and numerate or go through all of the SAPI engines that you have, and give you a list of all of them there on your system at this moment in time, and then you can go through and select whatever one that you want. If you have a SAPI synthesizer installed that you got from someplace that you really love, you could select SAPI and go there. Let’s just see what happens. If I hit “s” until I get to SAPI… WE: SAPI, 15 of 22 15 of 22. Now I picked SAPI, but remember that it is one of those that can have many other engines underneath it. SAPI in itself does not tell me exactly which synthesizer that I want or what is installed on my system. So once I select SAPI in this case, I would tab off. WE: Install engines, e Microsoft Anna, United States English, SAPI 5, list box, 1 of 1 I only have one synthesizer installed now, and this is the default synthesizer that Microsoft has installed on the computer by default. Microsoft Anna is the only SAPI synthesizer I have. If I want to accept her, I could just hit enter here and I would go on, and she would be my default synthesizer. But I am not going to accept her as my default. I’m going to do a shift-tab to go back to the synthesizers list box. So I’m going to do one shift-tab. WE: Synthesizers, s, SAPI list box Let’s look at another one. If I hit “e” for eloquence… WE: E, echo pc or gt, 11 of 22 Press e again. WE: E, eloquence, 12 of 22. So Eloquence is another set of synthesizers that Window Eyes will send you. There are like 10 different languages of Eloquence voices that are there. I can just hit enter here and then it would accept Eloquence as my default synthesizer. I could then go in later in Window Eyes and pick the Eloquence engine that I specifically wanted. Maybe I’d want the female voice or the grandma or grandpa voice. You will get the male voice by default. I can go in and tweak this at any time. In fact, I can pick any synthesizer at any time. I do not have to go back to the install options to choose a new synthesizer. We will show you how to do that a little bit later. I am going to go back to DecTalk, since that is our default synthesizer, and I will do this by typing in “d.” WE: D, DecTalk Access32 Window Eyes, 7 of 22 Again, DecTalk Access32 Window Eyes is the one that ships with Window Eyes and works with Window Eyes. I’m going to go ahead and keep that as my default. After we start up Window Eyes, I can show you how you can switch synthesizers. So I am going to hit enter here because “next” is still my default button. I can verify that it is my default button with a Window Eyes hotkey. On the numeric keypad, there are lots of commands that Window Eyes will acknowledge as Window Eyes only commands. In order for a lot of those to work, the num lock must be turned off. So I’m going to press the num lock key to make sure that it is off. It is the top left key on the numeric keypad. Press num lock until you hear Window Eyes say that num lock is off. Then, if you hit the “period” key on the numeric keypad, which is on the bottom row, to the right of the large zero key, this is actually the delete key. WE: Default, next default button This told me that next is the default button. That tells me that if I hit enter, that it will be like hitting enter on the next button. I could always tab down to next and press enter, or I could press alt-n since I know that n is the shortcut for the next button. I’m just going to hit enter here. WE: Next, n button; dialog, Braille display section dialog, Braille displays b, ports p, none… I went ahead and silenced that as well. This is similar to the select synthesizer dialog, only this one is allowing me to select what my Braille display is. If I want Window Eyes to automatically default to use a Braille display if I have one, I would go ahead and select that. For now, I’m going to go ahead and leave this selected as none. I’m going to tab to see the different options, though. Tab once. WE: Cancel, c button Tab again. WE: Back, b button Tab again. WE: Braille displays, b, none, list box, 1 of 56 So it told me that there were 56 options in this list box. If I were to pick one of these Braille displays, then typically you have to select what port it is connected to. So lets just down arrow one time and see what the first Braille display is. WE: Alva 240, 2 of 56 These are sorted alphabetically, so we happen to get the Alva 240 as the first Braille display here. If I were to tab off of this, say that is the Braille display that I want to use, I would tab off. WE: Ports, p, list box, 1 of 55 This allows me to select the individual port. 1 of 55, because there are 55 com ports, and there is a USB port, LTP port, all depending on how you have your display connected, you would do this. Now some displays don’t care what you select here, because it auto-detects them. It just depends on what Braille display you have, how it is connected, if it is auto-detected, etc. But I’m going to go ahead and shift-tab to go back to Braille displays. WE: Braille displays, b; Alva 240 I’m going to go ahead and hit the up arrow key. WE: None, 1 of 56 And I’m back to none. Again, I can hit enter now because next is the default button. I can confirm that by hitting the delete key on the numeric keypad. WE: Default, Next, default button So instead of hitting enter, let’s just show you the other way we could do this. I’m going to press alt-n. This takes you to the next dialog. WE: N, next n button, dialog, Set selection dialog, Access97, radio… I silenced this again because this dialog is rather large. It has lots of checkboxes and radio buttons. This particular dialog allows me to select the sets that I’d like to install for applications that I may be using. Now sets are just configurations of Window Eyes that allow Window Eyes to customize itself better for a particular application. Some applications work right out of the box. Simply install the application, install Window Eyes, and it works right away with no customization at all within Window Eyes. Some applications actually require you to customize Window Eyes to make it work at all, or to maybe make it work better. Those set files then need to be only executable files that are going to be used during that application. So Window Eyes has these set files that allow you to make all of these custom settings, but we are not going to get into how you make all of these custom settings. But once you have these settings, you can then tell the install which settings that you want to install. By default, Window Eyes has selected all of the current versions of all of the set files that Window Eyes offers. Now there are quite a few of them. Again, you may not even need these set files. They just kind of make it a little bit nicer to work with. But let me just tab real quickly and show you some of the options. Tab. WE: Cancel, c button. Tab again. WE: Back, b button. We’ve always got the back/next/cancel buttons. Tab again. WE: No access, radio button. Checked, 4 of 4. So the first one took me to access and it said, “No access.” In this case, we are assuming that you are not using Microsoft Access, but if you were, you could arrow up, since this is a radio button, and you could arrow up once and it would say… WE: Access XP, radio button checked, 3 of 4 Up arrow again. WE: Access 2000, radio button checked, 2 of 4 Up arrow again. WE: Access 97, radio button checked, 1 of 4 If I up arrow again… WE: No access, radio button checked, 4 of 4 It just wraps between those four radio buttons. So I could have down arrowed and wrapped around to 1, 2, 3, and so on, but I simply select the one that I want. To get off of the radio buttons, you just hit the tab key one time. WE: Accu-pos, point of sale, unchecked Accu-pos, point of sale, this is unchecked by default. But we do have set files for this. If you want this, or you are using that application, you would hit the spacebar… WE: space, checked, Accu-pos point of sale Now it is selected. The install will install, by default, these factory sets. If I hit space again…. WE: Space, unchecked. Accu-pos point of sale, checkbox Now if I tab to the next checkbox… WE: Adobe Reader, checkbox checked So, by default, we are going to install the Adobe Reader set files. If you do not want them, you can hit the space bar to uncheck the checkbox. You can tab between all of the different options and choose the ones that you want to have installed. Any of these set files can be re-installed or un-installed at any time after Window Eyes has been installed. You do not have to go back to the installation to install different set files. So it is not critical that you get the set files right the first time. Now there are a lot of different options here, so instead of tabbing through all of them to move on, press shift-tab repeatedly. WE: Back, b button, Next, n button, Cancel, c button. Unselect all set files, button I just wanted you to see that there was an extra button on here besides, back, next, and cancel, that is called unselect all set files. This is an option that will get rid of all of the set files. Now I’m going to go to the “next” button. WE: Next, n button. And I will hit enter here. This will let me install all of the default set files for the major applications. For instance, I am getting the Office 2007 set files installed. Now some of these are smart, as they don’t just install whatever version they want. Instead of installing any random Office set file, the computer actually checked to see what version of Office was on the computer, which in this case is Office 2007. Window Eyes will also check to see if you have the updated version of the application. So, for Office 2007, Window Eyes will check to see if it has been updated, and if it hasn’t, a message will come up at the end of the installation telling you that your version of Office 2007 is not the latest version, and that you should check for updates, so Window Eyes can work its best then. If you have installed Office within the last year or two, you most likely have the most updated version. You should make sure that you have downloaded all of the service packs and security updates from the Microsoft website. This will help both Window Eyes and your computer run better. I’m going to go ahead and hit “enter” for next, here. WE: Dialog, Window Eyes manual. Do you wish to install the text version of the Window Eyes manual? If you answer yes, the text version of the manual will be installed in the directory c:/program files/ gw/ micro/window-eyes/manual. Default, y button, no n button, cancel c button, yes, y button Ok, so this is asking us if we want the text version of the manual. You will get the manual in the help format. I will show you how we can bring that up and how to interact with Windows help later on. But this is if you feel more comfortable with text files, you could load the text file into Notepad, and just arrow around through the text file. We’ll show you how you can get to the directory that has all of the text files and you can quickly arrow to the chapter that you are interested in, and hit enter and it will load it in Notepad. By default, the manual is put in the Window Eyes directory, and it is making a directory in there called manual, and all of these text files are going to go into that directory. We’ll give you a shortcut so you can get to that directory quickly a little bit later. So I’m going to say enter for “yes,” because that was my default button, but I could tab to “no” if I am not interested in having the manual installed. It does not take up much memory on your computer to install the text files, so there really isn’t much reason to not put the files on there, unless you absolutely know you just don’t want them. Press enter. WE: Next, n button, Dialog shortcut key. You have the option of setting an operating system shortcut hotkey to launch Window Eyes. This hotkey allows you to start-up Window eyes at any point by simply pressing the associated hotkey. By default this hotkey is control-alt-w. You can change this to your liking by pressing the combination that you want, or simply tapping the delete key will disable the hotkey. When finished, select the next button. Control-alt-w, shortcut hotkey s, back b button, default next, n button, cancel c button Again, I let it read the entire dialog. This allows us to set up a Windows shortcut hotkey to launch an application. Windows allowed you to associate shortcut keys that no matter where you are in a Windows environment, you can press this shortcut key, and it will launch that application. In our case, control-alt-w is the default, so if I were to press control-alt-w, it will automatically launch Window Eyes and start it up. This is a nice way of doing it if you are at your system and you have a sighted spouse, and they don’t always want Window Eyes running by default, then you can just set up the shortcut, which is already set up for you by default. If you do not like the default shortcut, you can always go back and change it. Let me tab up there and show you how you can change it in the install. Press tab. WE: cancel, c button Tab again. WE: back, b button Tab again. WE: shortcut hotkey s, hotkey field This is a hotkey field. Remember when we talked about edit boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc, this is actually a hotkey edit box, where you can’t actually type, but is modifying the key presses that you press. So, for instance, if I don’t like control-alt-w, I could press the keystroke that I want. Let’s say that I like control-shift-f12. I just pressed control-shift-f12 and it changed the contents to that. I could verify that by pressing tab and then shift-tab quickly. WE: shortcut hotkey s, control-shift-f12, hotkey field So it allows you to select the key press that you want. Now, typically Windows shortcuts are control-alt-letter combinations, and so it is probably a good idea to stick with that, unless you are an advanced user and you know what you are doing. I recommend leaving it as control-alt-w, because that is what we refer to in the manual. Tapping the delete key in the hotkey field would change the value to “none.” Press tab to get to next. WE: Next, n button. Hit enter. Dialog: Window Eyes start-up selection. How would you like to start Window Eyes? If you want Window Eyes to run both before and after log-in, check both options. If you do not want to start Window Eyes automatically, leave both options unchecked. Run Window Eyes at the log-in screen, checkbox checked. Run Window Eyes after log-in for all users, checkbox checked. Back, b button. Default, next n, button. Cancel, c button. Next, n button. You are almost done with this install. Actually, this is the last question that this is going to ask us. It wants to know how you want Window Eyes to start, if you want it to start automatically, or at all. There were two checkboxes there. One said, “Run Window Eyes at the log-in screen,” meaning if your system comes up and allows you to select a user, maybe you are the only user or maybe there are multiple users, so if you want Window Eyes to run during this dialog, you must tell it to do so. Typically, you would want that to happen, unless you have multiple screen readers that you are using, or maybe you have a number of sighted users in your household. The other checkbox is, “Run Window Eyes after log-in for all users.” This one is independent of the log-in screen. It says after you’ve logged in and gone to your normal desktop, do you want Window Eyes to automatically load for you? This just gives you a lot of flexibility. By default, we have both of these checkboxes checked. If you do not want either of these options selected, press the space bar while at each option. Once you have the options set the way that you want them, tab to the “next” button. WE: Next, n button Hit enter. Now at this point, we are back like the quick install. We have answered all of the questions. In most cases, you can select the default answers that they give you. If you do, then you have basically done the quick install. Go ahead and hit enter again. Now, it is actually going through the install of all of the options that we had selected. It has this track bar moving across the screen, telling me the actual percentage of the installation that has been completed. The installation will take different amounts of time, depending on the speed of your processor. It should not take too long at all. The same dialog as before will come up, asking you to restart your system. WE: Window Eyes 7.0 setup….Restart computer now, r button dialog, custom set up complete. Thank you for choosing GW Micro and Window Eyes. (Silenced) It told us that our custom set-up is complete and I can hit enter to restart my computer. Again, if I was using something other than Vista, it would have said that I could hit enter to finalize the install because your reboot had been done earlier on. Under Windows Vista, the restart must be done at the end. So I need to go ahead and hit enter here to restart my computer. That is basically all that there is to the installation of Window Eyes. The next sections will show you how you can use Window Eyes in many different areas and environments. I’m going to go ahead and just hit enter here and leave the recording going to see how it will prompt me at the log-in screen. I will then log in and it will take me to the desktop, where I can start working with the different applications. WE: (at log-in screen) Window Eyes 7.0. Windows log-in, Bubba. Arrow. So on my particular Windows Vista system, I have two users: Bubba, who does not have any administrator rights, and Doug, which is the second user. One thing that wasn’t mentioned earlier is that to install Window Eyes on your machine, you need to be logged in as an administrator, if you are using Windows XP or older. If you are using Windows Vista, the user account control will allow you to log-in as an administrator to install Window Eyes. If you have more than one user on your computer, you can use the right and left arrows to move between the two users. Once you have found the user that you want to log in as, press the enter key. WE: Doug, password. Edit box. Let me go ahead and type in the password. You might think that you are going to hear his password, but you won’t. As the password is entered, Window Eyes will voice each character as a *. WE: ********* You will notice that it says “star,” and that is because all we see on the screen are little black characters that look like an asterisk, or star. Window Eyes will do this every time that you have to enter a password, no matter where you are at. Press enter to complete the log-in. This copy of Window Eyes that was loaded at the log-in screen will now go away, and Window Eyes will reload at your desktop. WE: (at desktop) Window Eyes 7.0 Finalizing Window Eyes installation. Please wait. Installation complete. Today’s tip key: The Window Eyes manual is easily accessed (silenced) I’m going to go ahead and silence that. The very first time that Window Eyes is run, it will say, “Finalizing Window Eyes installation.” What actually happened is, we installed some scripts, which can’t be installed until Window Eyes runs for the very first time. Window Eyes senses that there were some scripts that need to be installed, so when you launch it the first time, it finished the installation and installed the scripts. Also, the tip of the day came up. This is a dialog that comes up by default when you launch Window Eyes. This is just a little tip that randomly changes each time. I can tab through this particular dialog to hear the different parts. WE: View help topic, v button This button will take me to the Windows help option. Tab again. WE: Next tip, n button This will take you to the next tip. Tab again. WE: Previous tip, p button This will show you the previous tip. Tab again. WE: Close, button This will close the tip. Tab again. WE: Show tips at start-up, s checkbox, checked So if you do not like hearing the tip of the day, you could hit spacebar on this checkbox. WE: Space, unchecked, show tips at start-up So now, tips at start-up is unchecked. The next time that you start Window Eyes, you will not hear the tip of the day. You can change this later on, and we will show you how to do that. I’m going to go ahead and leave it checked. WE: Space, checked And if you tab one more time… WE: (starts reading main content) So this will read the tip to you. But I will silence it for now. To exit from this dialog, you can hit the escape key, or press enter while on the “close” button. Press escape. WE: Desktop, recycle bin, unselected, list view, 1 of 10 And now I am ready to go. So that is all that there is to installing Window Eyes, launching it the very first time. Now we will go into some sections where we can interact with your system and Window Eyes itself.