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Window
Eyes 4.0 $595.00
DECtalk
PC/Window-Eyes $1,540.00
FEATURES
General
· Compatibility with Windows 95a, 95b, 98, 98SE,
and Millennium
· Rock Solid and responsive
· No need to learn or use macros or a scripting language
· Extremely easy to configure to personal taste
· Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility
(MSAA)
· Supports all video systems
· Unsurpassed access to web pages using Microsoft
Internet Explorer
· Compatibility with many popular voice synthesizers
· Compatibility with most popular Braille displays
· Automatically labels many application's graphics
· Easy access to Windows 9X System Tray
· Exceptions dictionaries for altering the way
words, graphics, key-labels, characters, and mouse pointers are pronounced
· A read-to-end feature for reading nonstop from
the beginning to the end of a document
· Extensive information for standard Windows
controls such as tree views and list views
· No need to reinstall to add a synthesizer or
Braille display.
· Optimized to be the quickest, most responsive
screen reader on the market.
· Easy access to the Windows 9X system tray
· Automatically labels many application's graphics
· Unparalleled stablity and responsiveness
· A WE cursor for reviewing the screen without
disturbing the caret or mouse pointer
· Easy-to-use drop-down menu system for control
and setup
· Many user-assignable hot keys for operation
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
· Standard look, feel, and intuitive operations
of the Windows environment
· An easy-to-use Window-Eyes User's Guide, presented
in a tutorial format
Braille Displays
· All major displays are supported
· Factory display key presses for many functions
· Display key presses can easily be configured
through a user friendly dialog
· Several factory Braille tables for 6 and 8
dot Braille
· Two user definable Braille tables for maximum
flexibility
· Full support for all attributes
· Visual Braille window for visually displaying
the information represented on the Braille display
· Switch to any Braille display at any time
· Auto line fill causes the display to show as
much information as possible
· Full control over how and what information
is presented on the display
· Enhanced spacing modes for getting exact representation
of screen information
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. For example, Control-Right
Arrow in WordPerfect would be setup to read the current word. You can even
link two of these options to a single keystroke.
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 use 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.
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
Computers: All IBM
compatible computer systems (Pentium or better). Microsoft Windows 95 or
98 with 32MB of RAM minimum, 64MB recommended.
Synthesizers: Sounding
Board, Speak-Out, Accent, Apollo, Artic, Votalker, Audapter, ASP, Braille
'n Speak, DECtalk, Portable DECtalk, DECtalk PC/Express, DECtalk Access32,
DoubleTalk PC & LT, Echo PC, Keynote, Keynote Gold Multimedia, LiteTalk,
MultiVoice, Personal speech system, Reading Edge, SmarTalk, TextAssist,
PROSE 4000, VoiceCard, TripleTalk, Microsoft Speech Engine, FlexTalk (dependant
on SAPI version), Elequence/Via Voice, and many other SAPI engines.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
OR YOUR MONEY BACK WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM ORIGINAL PURCHASE DATE
(THERE WILL BE A 10%
RE-STOCKING FEE)
TO PLACE AN ORDER
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