Window-Eyes public beta released with powerful scripting capability
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, uaccess-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:10:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:33 PM
Subject: Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 Is Now Available!
After much anticipation, Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 is now available.
Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 offers the latest advancements in screen reading
technology, including full Unicode support, new scripting functionality,
web browsing enhancements, a new synthesizer, and much more.
Full Unicode support means the ability to work with more international
languages. Web browsing enhancements mean easier navigation between
controls, and the ability to add placemarkers that can remember places on
a webpage even when the webpage changes. ECI Eloquence 6.1 is now
available as yet another speech option. Other enhancements like speed
increases for list views, the system tray, and error reporting, being able
to increase and decrease the speech rate during read to end, new options
for keyboard voice interruptability, and numerous bug fixes make
Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 a welcome update.
The most notable enhancement in Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1, however, is
scripting. Window-Eyes scripting is unparalleled in its design and
implementation. Rather than require a scripter to learn a proprietary
language, Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 allows a scripter to choose from a number
of standard computer languages for writing scripts. This means that more
people will be able to take advantage of Window-Eyes scripting, and
ultimately more accessibility to more software applications. Access all
Window-Eyes features and settings, all operating system windows and
properties, create custom accessible dialogs for user interaction with
power and ease, and more.
To make scripts easily accessible and encourage script development, GW
Micro has created a centralized script repository called Script Central
(www.gwmicro.com/sc). Script Central provides script developers with the
tools to distribute their scripts, and provides scripts users the tools to
download, comment, rate and track favorite scripts. The GW Micro forums
(www.gwmicro.com/forum) have also been enhanced for general script
discussions, script requests, script announcements, and much more. While
we encourage everyone to take advantage of Script Central, Window-Eyes
scripts can be hosted anywhere and distributed by anyone.
Read more about all of the features Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 has to offer,
and download your copy, at www.gwmicro.com/beta.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:41 PM
Subject: Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 - Default Installed Scripts
Greetings,
Window-Eyes 7.0 Beta 1 includes four script packages, automatically
installed for your convenience, that demonstrate the power Window-Eyes
scripting provides to enhance your daily computing experience. The
information for each script below is also found in the script's help and
options. You can access a script's help and options by opening the Script
Manager dialog (from the Manage Sets and Scripts pull down in the
Window-Eyes File menu), selecting the script you're interested in, then
selecting the Help and Options button (or pressing the Help and Options
button shortcut, H).
GW Toolkit
The GW Toolkit script provides a collection of commonly used shared
objects for use with other scripts, such as providing consistent help
information, managing hotkeys, and much more. The rest of the scripts
listed below require the GW Toolkit script's functionality. You can read
more about the objects contained in the GW Toolkit by reading through the
gwtoolkit.chm Help file, installed automatically to your user profile
directory.
AutoComplete
AutoComplete provides announcement of inline autocompleted text and
suggestion list items in supported combo edit boxes, such as those in the
Start Menu's Run dialog, standard file save and open dialogs, and many
other areas.
To disable the speaking of inline autocompleted text, select the "Do Not
Speak" radio button. To speak only the text that autocompleted, select the
"Speak Completed Text" radio button. To speak the entire line (i.e.
what has been typed plus the text that autocompleted), select the "Speak
Entire Line" radio button.
To hear an index of the number of suggestions provided in the suggestion
popup list, check the "Speak Suggestion Index" check box. To hear the
first item in the suggestion list spoken, check the "Speak First
Suggestion" check box."
If toggling the "Enable Inline Autocomplete" check box does not work, you
can always verify this setting manually by toggling the "Use inline
AutoComplete" check box under the Advanced tab of the Internet Options
control panel.
Note that the suggestion popup list does not have anything selected by
default. To select the first item (the same item spoken if the "Speak
First Suggestion" option is enabled), press the Down Arrow.
LVNav
The lvnav script is designed to allow you to virtually navigate a
listview. You can use the insert arrows to virtually move through the
rows and columns in the listview. Insert-Home and Insert-End move to the
beginning and end of a row while Control-Insert-Home and
Control-Insert-End move to the top and bottom of a column. You can also
use Alt-1 through Alt-0 to read columns 1 through 10. If you want to set
focus to the virtual item you are on use Insert-Enter. If you want to set
focus to the virtual item and add it to the current selection use
Control-Insert-Enter. This script can be loaded globally to be available
for all listviews or in a specific application to only be available for
listviews within that application.
Progress Indicator
This script is designed to get you immediate feedback on the status of
progress bars in the active window. There are two types of progress bars.
The main progress bar contains a visual indicator as to the progress
giving sighted users a percentage from 0 to 100. Marquee bars are similar
but they dont give a percentage. Instead they just give a sighted user an
indication that progress is being made. This script gives you the ability
to monitor both types independently.
Virtual View
Virtual View displays a text view of any window. To include graphic
labels, check the Include Labeled Graphics option. To include the window
type where the text came from, check the Include Window Types check box.
To prompt for the window to retrieve the text from, check the Always Ask
for Window Type check box. Virtual View also offers several quick keys for
accessing the dialog where the text originated. For example, if a button
called Close exists in the dialog where you obtained the virtual view
from, you can place your cursor on the word close, and press the letter L
to close the Virtual View dialog, and click the close button -- all in one
key stroke. In addition to L for Single Left Click, other commands are: R
for Single Right Click, D for Double Left Click, M for Middle Click, P for
Route Mouse, and F for Focus Control. You can also use Control-F to search
for text in the Virtual View edit box, as well as F3 to find the next
occurrence of the last string searched for.
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GW Micro
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