Window-Eyes lets you start with the cursor at any point in a document and read the document from that point forward, all the way to its end or until you press any key. This task is accomplished by pressing the Read to End hot key, CTRL-SHIFT-R by default, defined in the Miscellaneous Hot Key Definition dialog box.

When you press this hot key, Window-Eyes reads the current line of the document and then automatically issues a DOWN-ARROW command to your application program. This process is repeated until the document runs out of new lines to move down to. The cursor will visually run several lines ahead of the reading.

You can also use the RIGHT ARROW to jump forward a line or the LEFT ARROW to jump backward a line while in Read to End.  It should also be noted that the line prior/next feature will only work if you are using a synthesizer that supports indexing. Pressing U during Read to End will increase the speech rate. Pressing D during Read to End will decrease the speech rate.

This feature is useful not only for reading whole documents without having to work the keyboard, but it is also a handy editing tool. You can get Read to End going, and press any key to suspend the Read to End feature on the line where you want to correct an error or make some revision.

Does the Read to End hot key contradict our definition of hot keys as keys which only operate Window-Eyes and do not affect the application program? Functionally, yes, in that when you issue this hot key, Window-Eyes does command your application program to scroll its text. When you halt the Read to End hot key, your cursor is not in the place it was before you issued the command. But, in reality, it is not the pressing of this key that affects the operation of your application program. It is Window-Eyes itself that does this, running its own mini-program to issue repeated keystrokes after the reading of each line-in response to your using the hot key. The application still never sees the key press.