Using Windows Help Using Windows Help: Most applications, including Window Eyes, provide their help in a Windows Help format. Windows Help is an easy way to navigate information, especially manuals. I’m going to show you how you can use Windows help using the Window Eyes help manual. The help manual can be brought up a few ways. We could go to the start menu under the Window Eyes program group, we could just type the file name in the run dialog, or we could bring it up from the Window Eyes help menu. The help menu is the easiest, so let’s do it that way. As normal, I’m sitting at the desktop with only Window Eyes running. So lets bring up Window Eyes with control backslash. WE: Window Eyes Press alt-h for help. WE: H, Window Eyes manual W And it is the first option in the help menu, so I’m going to go ahead and press enter. WE: Menu closed. Window Eyes 7.0 manual. Press F6 for instructions. 1 of 33. Tree view. Depth one. So inside Windows help, it just launched the standard Windows help application, but it brought up the Window Eyes manual, or in this case, the text of it. Sort of like saying I launched Word, but I opened the text version of the Window Eyes manual into the Word application. So on the left of this application, is what is called the tree view, and you heard Window Eyes say that I was in a tree view. This allows me to navigate through the different sections of the Window Eyes manual. Let me just hit down arrow here. WE: Contact information. 2 of 33. Contact information. Down arrow again. 3 of 33. WE: End user license agreement. Down arrow again. WE: One. Introducing Window Eyes. Closed 4 of 33. Down again. WE: Two. Installing Window Eyes. Closed 5 of 33. So it said Two, installing Window Eyes, and it’s closed. Now if I’m going down, I’m just going between the different sections and eventually to the appendices of Window Eyes. But if I want to open it up and look at a specific section in section 2, I have to open this up because it said it was closed. While in a tree view, the left arrow opens it up and the right arrow closes it. So let me hit the right arrow key. WE: Two. Installing Window Eyes. Expanded 5 of 33. 7 items. So there are 7 sub-items in section two, let me down arrow now that it is opened. Instead of going to section 3, I’m going to the first section in section 2. Let me down arrow one time. WE: 2.1 About synthesizers 1 of 7 Down arrow again. WE: 2.2 Quick install 2 of 7 So it just keeps reading me the index. And again, If I want to go back to the top of section two, I can hit left arrow one time. WE: Two. Installing Window Eyes. Expanded 5 of 33. 7 items, depth 1. So now it is expanded. But let’s say that I wanted to be in section three. So we can close this by pressing left arrow. WE: Two. Installing Window Eyes. Closed 5 of 33. Now let me down arrow one time. WE: Three. An overview of Window Eyes, closed. 6 of 33. Press right arrow to open it up. WE: Three. An overview of Window Eyes, expanded. 6 of 33. 5 items Down arrow to go to the 3.1 section. WE: 3.1 Where is Window Eyes? 1 of 5 Depth 2 Let me hit enter on that. Now what is happening here is that as you are navigating around this tree view, nothing else is changing. I’m only navigating in the tree view. On the right side of this window, actually about three-fourths of this window, typically has the contents of what I’ve selected on the left in the tree view. But the only way that it will update the contents on the right is if I hit the enter key in the tree view. Windows help decided to not automatically update the right window because it can be a time consuming task to do that as you are arrowing through your tree view. This might make your tree view very sluggish to do that. So the way that they do it is that instead of automatically updating as you are changing from section to section, is that they are waiting for us to find what they want and we hit enter. WE: 3.1 Where is Window Eyes? 1 of 5 Ok, it didn’t actually do anything as far as what you might think from speech. All it did was re-read the tree view item that I was sitting on, but it did update the contents on the right. But focus is still on the tree view, which is on the left. So the only way that the sighted user doesn’t care, they will just go and click on the section in the tree view on the left and they will read the contents on the right. Now we need to put the focus on the right side in the section that contains the content of the text that we want. So remember, we hit enter on section 3.1 Where is window eyes. If I want to read the content of that section, I can hit F6. F6 is a very common Microsoft Windows command, that typically takes you from pane to pane. You know how tab will take you from control to control, well a pane is like a collection of controls and it will take you between those panes. So let me hit F6. WE: Four links. Navigation link 3, an overview of Window Eyes. 3.1 Where is Window Eyes? (Window Eyes will start reading entire section) I’m going to silence this by hitting the control key. But now what’s happening is that Windows Help doesn’t give us a cursor to help navigate around, very similar to loading a web page. In fact, we are using basically the same engine that Internet Explorer would use to render web content. The help is basically web content and it is kind of using IE in the background to help display this text, but there is no cursor. So Window Eyes automatically goes back to its browse mode. So everything that we taught you in using Internet Explorer with Window Eyes in browse mode is still relevant here. So I can do my speak summary with Control – Shift – S WE: Line 1 of 62, 4 links, 12 paragraphs, 3 anchors Gives me all of that. I can do my insert-tab to pop up the page navigation box. Insert – E for element properties if I’m interested. I want to be able to navigate around this particular web page. I can also use tab to go between the links. I can do control – shift – r to do my read to end. But the content will only be that of the section that I selected on the left. Now if I want to go back to my tree view to select something else, I can either hit F6, let me hit that. WE: 3.1 Where is Window Eyes, 1 of 5, Depth 2 Now let me down arrow from there. WE: 3.2 The Window Eyes voice control panel, 2 of 5 Now what do you think if I hit F6? Let me hit F6 to go over there. It didn’t actually say anything and the reason it didn’t say anything is because it just took me to the web content and it took me to the last line that I was sitting on for section 3.1. Remember, I didn’t hit enter when I down arrowed to section 3.2. I just down arrowed and hit F6. The content on the right doesn’t auto update. And so it put me back where I was before I hit F6 to get out of this content. And in fact, I can start down arrowing from here, and continue on reading in this page. But lets F6 pack to the tree view WE: 3.2 The Window Eyes voice control panel, 2 of 5, Depth 2 This time let me hit enter. This will load the page. WE: 3.2 The Window Eyes voice control panel Now lets F6 over. WE: Window eyes will start reading the entire section. Silence that with the control key. And there are links within these sections. It will say something like, “Discussed in section 5.4” and it links to that section. Lets just see that. If I hit tab until it says link next page WE: Link next page Every page will have a previous page and a next page link. That is nice if you want to go sequentially through the help manual. So if I were to hit enter here, it would take me to section 3.3, and section 3.3 will have a next page link, which will take me to 3.4, and so on. But let me tab one more time. WE: Link, section 5.4 Ok, so this was the link to section 5.4. To go to this link, press enter. WE: WE begins reading page….7 links, etc. Notice it said 5.4 the rest of the global menu. Had all of the same links as the other pages. This makes it easy to navigate through the help menu. There is one more feature that I would like to show you in Windows Help. Let me F6 back to the tree view. WE: 5.4 The rest of the global menu, 4 of 4, depth 2 Even though I’m in this tree view, there are three nodes of this tree view. There is the content, which is what we are in now. There is an index, which sorts a lot of the keywords in alphabetical order. And there is search, which allows us to look up different subjects. Alt-c is the shortcut for contents, alt-I is the shortcut for index, and alt-s is the shortcut for search. So I’m going to hit alt-s, WE: S, 0 of 2, Combo edit box Now it put me in a combo edit box that allows me to type text that I want to search for. If you wanted more information about the bypass key, for instance, go ahead and type in the word bypass and press enter. You can use quotes to search for exact words, or type in a phrase to look for certain words. WE: Window Eyes 7.0 manual. Bypass 0 of 2, combo edit box Now let me tab off of this. Windows didn’t make this the most accessible application, but you can deal with it if you put your mind to it. So I typed in bypass, and it found several pages that have bypass in it or something similar. So let me tab off of this combo edit box. WE: button, list topics, display d, select topic t, no selected item, list view Down arrow WE: 8.1 the bypass hot key, location Window Eyes 7.0 manual, rank 1 of 10 It selected the first item for us. If I were to down arrow again, WE: 19.16 navigation options, location Window Eyes 7.0 manual, rank 2 of 10 It found 10 items, and it is ranking the items 1 through 10, by the best guess that it thinks it found. I’m going to up arrow back to the first one WE: 8.1 the bypass hot key, location Window Eyes 7.0 manual, rank 1 of 10 I’m going to hit enter on this because this is just like the tree view. You must hit enter on this for the right window to update. Hit enter and then F6 to move to the other window. Since the bypass words are highlighted in the section, no speech will be heard. Control-shift-r will start the reading. WE: starts reading section I’m going to hit escape to exit the reading. Reminder for when you are searching for a topic. Arrow up and down thru your list until you find what you want. Then press enter to update the right window, and press F6 to move to that window. Press F6 to go back to the tree view. This will put you back into the combo box. It did not go to the list view. Press tab if you want to go to the list view to find a different topic. If I wanted to go back to the contents, I could press alt-c, and that puts me back into the tree view of section 8.1. I hope that you can now easily navigate through the help menu. Let’s move on to the next section.