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1: Introducing Window-Eyes
1.1: Welcome to Window-Eyes
1.2: System Requirements
1.3: Package Contents
1.4: Getting Technical Support
1.5: How to Use this Manual
1.6: 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 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 Options 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 Unicode/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: Placemarkers
19.16: More Navigation Options
19.17: More Verbosity Options
19.18: Document Specific Settings
19.19: 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
24: Working with Window-Eyes Scripts
24.1: Getting Started
24.2: Script Security
24.3: Scripting Status
24.4: The Script Manager
24.5: Add or Remove Packages
24.6: Interacting with Scripts
24.7: Advanced Information
24.8: The Window-Eyes Scripting Manual
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: Script Menus
B.13: Help
Appendix C.1: Speech Synthesizers
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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