• Compatibility with Windows 95, 98, 98, Me, 2000, 2003 and XP. • Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) • Compatibility with many popular voice synthesizers • Full support for video attributes and all video systems • Easy access to the Windows system tray • Automatically labels many application's graphics • Unparalleled stability and responsiveness • A WE cursor for reviewing the screen without disturbing the caret or mouse pointer • No need to learn or use macros or a scripting language • Easy-to-use drop-down menu system for control and setup • User-assignable hot keys for operating Window-Eyes on the fly • Forty-six user-definable cursor-tracking keys • Advanced light-bar tracking with intelligent automatic mode allowing easy access to menus, buttons, icons, and more. • Exception dictionaries for altering the way words, graphics, key-labels, characters, and mouse pointers are pronounced • Automatic loading of speaking environments and dictionaries • A wide variety of features for automatic reading of menus, dialog boxed, and other Windows activities • Audible signals to alert you to capitalization and format changes when proof reading • A read-to-end feature for reading nonstop from the beginning to the end of a document Standard look, feel, and intuitive operations of the Windows environment • An easy-to-use Window-Eyes User's Guide, presented in a tutorial format
Mouse • Keyboard commands for moving the mouse pointer without having to use a physical mouse • Automatically reads information under the mouse as it is moved • Full mouse movement and clicking support from the keyboard • Extensive search capabilities • Mouse pointer dictionary
50 Standard windows • Fifty simultaneous Window-Eyes windows for reading user specified areas of the screen • Self-adjusting windows to read screen information in moving areas of the screen or for compensating for the resizing of windows • Windows can be either Neutral, Speak, Silent or Float • Any of the first ten windows can be read with a single keystroke • Each window can be chained, setup to speak and spell, associated with a specific color and much more
26 Hyperactive Windows • Hyperactive windows allow you to monitor screen areas for certain occurrences. You can monitor for: any change, contains attribute, does not contain attribute, contains string, does not contain string, contains caret, does not contain caret, contains focus, or does not contain focus. • Once triggered, you can execute any three of seven options: speak any window, speak specified message, speak light bar, activate any window, load a new voice environment, execute any hot key, or beep.
Voice Configuration • Set up the speech rate, pitch, tone, volume and punctuation independently for screen, keyboard, and mouse • Has capitalization alert and Format alert • Keyboard can voice characters or words • Numbers can be spoken as digits or full numbers • Includes a word exception dictionary for mispronounced words • Features a character dictionary to define exactly how to pronounce a character • A key label dictionary can be used to define any key press • Includes a graphic dictionary • Allows speech to be interrupted or silenced with the press of a key
Hot keys • These are Window-Eyes commands only. The underlying applications program will not be disturbed with these keystrokes. • Over 150 assignable hot key speech features • Hot keys to read previous, current and next for character, word, line, sentence, and paragraph • Extensive mouse manipulation • Hot key to read to end of document • Hot key to read the date and time • Bypass hot key which allows the next Window-Eyes command to be ignored so the underling application can receive the keystroke • Each hot key can easily be assigned the keystroke of your choice • Hot keys which are of no interest can be undefined
Cursoring keys • These are applications keys. You simply tell Window-Eyes what you want voiced after the application acts on the command. Your choices are: prior char before, prior char after, char before, char after, next char, previous word, word, next word, prior line, line, next line, sentence, paragraph, to end of line, light bar, marked text, caret position, field data and/or name, title/status, speak window, activate window, mouse top left, load set, or ignore speak windows.
Documentation • A step-by-step instruction guide is supplied in print, on audio cassette, and on disk. This documentation gives all needed information through a tutorial format.
Equipment Supported Braille Displays: Alva 240, Alva 280, Alva 320/340/440, Alva 380/480, Alva Satellite 544, Alva Satellite 570, Braille Lite 18, Braille Lite 40, Braille Lite M20, Braille Lite M40, Braille Voyager, Braille Window/CombiBraille, BrailleNote, Braillex EL 2D/40/80, Braillex EL Braille Assistant (Elba), Braillex 2D Screen, Braillex Compact/Tiny/2D Lite, DM80, Handy Tech Mod 80 and Braille Wave, Handy Tech Braillino, Handy Tech Book Worm, Handy Tech Braille Star 40/80, Navigator 20/40, Navigator 80, PowerBraille 40, PowerBraille 65/80, Vario 40/RBT40(Rabbit), Vario 80
Synthesizers: Sounding Board, Speak-Out*, Accent PC, Accent Mini or Messenger, Accent SA*, Artic, Artic Transport*, Apollo External*, Apollo II External*, Apollo Internal, Apollo II Internal, Votalker, Audapter*, ASP, All Blazie Engineering Synthesizers*, BrailleMate, Braille 'n Speak, DECtalk, Portable DECtalk, DECtalk PC, DECtalk Access 32*, DECtalk External (original), DECtalk Express*, Echo PC* or GP*, Keynote, Keynote PC, Keynote SA*, Keynote Gold Multimedia, Litetalk*, DoubleTalk PC, DoubleTalk LT*, MultiVoice, or PCKPR, NewEcho, Personal Speech System, Reading Edge, SmarTalk, SAPI* (Microsoft Speech Engine, Eloquence/Via Voice and others), FlexTalk (dependent on SAPI version), SMP*, SSIL, TextAssist, PROSE 4000, or VertPlus, VoiceCard (PCMCIA), Triple Talk PCI*, Triple Talk USB* Synthesizers marked with an asterisk (*) are supported by both Window-Eyes Standard and Professional. Those without the asterisk are only supported by Window-Eyes Standard. Others may be supported but not listed.
Windows System Requirements
Window-Eyes Professional: • IBM Compatible (Intel Pentium/Celeron, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron) with a clock speed of 400 MHz or greater (300 MHz minimum) • 128 MB RAM or higher (64 MB RAM or less may cause system performance degradation) • Windows 9X, Windows Millennium (Me), Windows 2000, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2003 (and greater) • 20 MB available hard-disk space • CD-ROM drive
