Re: Window-Eyes public beta released with powerful scripting capability

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:34:15 +0300

I hope full unicode support really means that it can work with more languages, 
not like Jaws that speaks foreign special chars as english chars.

Octavian

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From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: Window-Eyes public beta released with powerful scripting capability


> -- Forwarded Message --
> From: gw-news@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
> 
> 
> ----------
> 
> -- Forwarded Message --
> 
> From: gw-news@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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> correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent
> to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro
> Technical Support Team.
> 
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> GW Micro
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