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APPENDIX A
HOTKEYS

This appendix will give a description for all 61 possible hot keys.  Each of
these keys can be defined by you through the Hotkey submenu from the Voice
Control Panel.  Many of the keys have default values and others are left
undefined.  If a function is left undefined, it will not be useable.  For
example, you probably would never use the previous, current and next
paragraph hot keys from within a spread sheet program.  Feel free to set all
of these keys to your liking.  Make sure however, you don't define them the
same as one of your applications hot keys.  If you do, each press of the key
will cause Vocal-Eyes to act upon it.  The application program would never
see the keystroke.  If you set it up this way on purpose, maybe because you
don't use the application keystroke very often, you can instruct Vocal-Eyes
not to act on the keystroke but pass it on to the application program
instead.  This will be discussed later on.

Also, if you are in Review Mode and wish to access a hot key but it has been
defined to a keystroke which is already defined to be a Review Mode command,
you must tell Vocal-Eyes to bypass the Review Mode command in order to use
the hot key.  In other words, when you are out of Review Mode, the hot keys
have precedence over the applications keys.  You would need to bypass the hot
key in order to activate the application key.  If you are in Review Mode
however, the Review commands have precedence over the hot keys.  Therefore,
if you wish to issue a hot key you must bypass the Review Mode command first.
Of course, this conflict only occurs if you have defined a hot key to the
same keystroke as one of your applications keys or one of the Review Mode
commands.

The majority of the hot keys which read something except for the read window
hot keys will use the coordinates of the currently active window.  Let's say
the currently active window has a left column of 10 and a right column of 20.
If you press the read current line hot key, Vocal-Eyes will only voice the
character from column 10 to 20.  Not all 80 columns.

The hot keys below are presented in the order in which they appear on the Hot
Key Definition screen.

1:Prior Char : Control-B

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the character to the left
of the current cursor location.  If your cursor is on the first column of the
line, the last character of the previous line will be read.  If you are
already at the top left of the window, Vocal-Eyes will beep and read the
current character instead.  If you press this key a second time in a row, the
character will be pronounced phonetically in a speech rate two settings below
the current screen voice rate.  If you are in Review Mode, the Review cursor
will be moved to the previous character.  Also while in Review Mode, the
phonetical spelling cannot be done with this keystroke.

2:Char : Control-C

This will always read the current character under the cursor.  If you press
this key a second time in a row, the character will be pronounced
phonetically in a speech rate two settings below the current screen voice
rate.

3:Next Char : Control-D

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the character to the right
of the current cursor location.  If your cursor is on the last column of the
line, the first character of the next line will be read.  If you are already
at the bottom right of the window, Vocal-Eyes will beep and read the current
character instead.  If you press this key a second time in a row, the
character will be pronounced phonetically in a speech rate two settings below
the current screen voice rate.  If you are in Review Mode, the Review cursor
will be moved to the next character.  Also the phonetical spelling cannot be
done with this key stroke while in review mode.

4:Prior Word : Control-V

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the word to the left of the
word currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a word then simply
the word to the left of the cursor will be read.  If there is no word to the
left, Vocal-Eyes will beep.   If you press this key a second time in a row,
the previous word will be spelled out.  A third press will cause the word to
be spelled out phonetically.  In either case, Vocal-Eyes will spell the word
using a speech rate two levels below the current screen rate.  If you are in
Review Mode, the Review cursor will be moved to the previous word.  Also the
spelling and phonetical spelling cannot be done with this key stroke while in
review mode.

5:Word : Control-W

This can be used to speak the current word under the cursor.  If there is not
a word under the cursor, Vocal-Eyes will beep.  If you press this key a
second time in a row, the current word will be spelled out.  A third press
will cause the word to be spelled out phonetically.  When spelling,
Vocal-Eyes will use a speech rate two levels below the current screen rate.

6:Next Word : Control-Y

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the word to the right of
the word currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a word then
simply the word to the right of the cursor will be read.  If there is no word
to the right, Vocal-Eyes will beep.   If you press this key a second time in
a row, the next word will be spelled out.  A third press will cause the word
to be spelled out phonetically.  In either case, Vocal-Eyes will spell the
word using a speech rate two levels below the current screen rate.  If you
are in Review Mode, the Review cursor will be moved to the next word.  Also
the spelling and phonetical spelling cannot be done with this key stroke in
Review Mode.

7:Prior Line : Control-K

This will cause the line above the line currently under the cursor to be
voiced.  If you are already at the top of the window, Vocal-Eyes will beep
and read the current line.  If you are in Review Mode, the Review cursor will
be moved to the previous line with the same column position.

8:Line : Control-L

A press of this hot key will cause the current line under the cursor to be
voiced.

9:Next Line : Control-M

This will cause the line below the line currently under the cursor to be
voiced.  If you are already at the bottom of the window, Vocal-Eyes will beep
and read the current line.  If you are in Review Mode, the Review cursor will
be moved to the next line with the same column position.

10:Prior Sent : Control-R

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the sentence to the left of
the sentence currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a sentence
then simply the sentence to the left of the cursor will be read.  If there is
no sentence to the left, Vocal-Eyes will beep.   If you are in Review Mode,
the Review cursor will be moved to the first character of the previous
sentence.

11:Sent : Control-S

This will cause the current sentence under the cursor to be voiced.  If there
is no sentence under the cursor, Vocal-Eyes will beep.

12:Next Sent : Control-T

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the sentence to the right
of the sentence currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a
sentence then simply the sentence to the right of the cursor will be read.
If there is no sentence to the right, Vocal-Eyes will beep.  If you are in
Review Mode, the Review cursor will be moved to the first character of the
next sentence.

13:Prior Para : Control-O

When this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the paragraph to the left
of the paragraph currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a
paragraph then simply the paragraph to the left of the cursor will be read.
If there is no paragraph to the left, Vocal-Eyes will beep.  If you are in
Review Mode, the Review cursor will be moved to the first character of the
previous paragraph.

14:Para : Control-P

This will cause the current paragraph under the cursor to be voiced.  If
there is no paragraph under the cursor, Vocal-Eyes will beep.

15:Next Para : Control-Q

If this hot key is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will speak the paragraph to the right
of the paragraph currently under the cursor.  If the cursor is not on a
paragraph then simply the paragraph to the right of the cursor will be read.
If there is no paragraph to the right, Vocal-Eyes will beep.  If you are in
Review Mode, the Review cursor will be moved to the first character of the
next paragraph.

16:Top Cursor : Undefined

This will cause all text from the top left of the currently active window to
the current cursor position to be spoken.

17:Cursor Bot : Undefined

This will cause all text from the current cursor position to the bottom right
of the currently active window to be spoken.

18:Left Cursor : Undefined

This will cause all text on the current line from the first column of the
active window to the current cursor position to be spoken.

19:Cursor Right: Undefined

This will cause all text on the current line from the current cursor position
to the last column of the active window to be spoken.

Options 20 - 29 all deal with reading a particular window.  Remember, each
window can be assigned a particular color.  If this is the case, only those
characters which match that color will be read.  The default color is
anything on anything causing all characters to be spoken.  You can also chain
one window to another.  If you have window 1 chained to window 5 which is
chained to window 0 and you press the hotkey to read window 1, Vocal-Eyes
would first read window 1 followed by window 5 and finally window 0.

20:Window 0 : Alt-0

This will read window 0.

21:Window 1 : Alt-1

This will read window 1.

22:Window 2 : Alt-2

This will read window 2.

23:Window 3 : Alt-3

This will read window 3.

24:Window 4 : Alt-4

This will read window 4.

25:Window 5 : Alt-5

This will read window 5.

26:Window 6 : Alt-6

This will read window 6.

27:Window 7 : Alt-7

This will read window 7.

28:Window 8 : Alt-8

This will read window 8.

29:Window 9 : Alt-9

This will read window 9.

30:Read Box : Undefined

This will cause Vocal-Eyes to scan the entire screen for a box displayed on
the screen.  If one is found, Vocal-Eyes will set a temporary window to the
top left and bottom right corners and speak the contents of the window.  If
more than once box is currently being displayed, Vocal-Eyes will try and
determine which box is of most interest and read that box.  Notice this is
not constrained to the currently active window.

31:Read to end : Undefined

If you are using an applications program which allows you to cursor through
your document by using the up and down arrows, this feature will allow you to
automatically read your document from the current cursor position to the end
of your document.  This is mainly used from within word processors.
Vocal-Eyes will cause the application program to scroll down your document as
it reads.  If you wish to stop the reading, press the ESCAPE key.  Your
cursor will be in the general area of what you last heard.  Remember, you can
also silence the speech and turn it back on during the reading.  This can be
used to skip quickly through text.

32:Normal : Undefined

This can be used to read every character within the currently active window
which has an attribute of "normal."  This means the foreground color can be
anything but the background must be black.  In other words, anything on
black.

33:Reverse : Undefined

This can be used to read every character within the currently active window
which has an attribute of "reverse."  This means the foreground can be
anything and the background can be anything except black.  In other words,
anything on not black.

34:Blinking : Undefined

This can be used to read every character within the currently active window
which is currently blinking.

35:Underline : Undefined

This can be used to read every character within the currently active window
which is currently underlined.

36:Highlighted : Undefined

This can be used to read every character within the currently active window
which has an attribute of "highlighted."  This means the foreground can be
any bright color and the background can be anything.  In other words, any
bright on anything.

37:Attrib/ASCII : Undefined

This will read the ASCII value and then the attribute of the character
currently under the cursor.

38:User Attrib : Undefined

This will read all characters within the currently active window which have
an attribute the same as what the User Attribute is set at.  If you have not
set the User Attribute, it will default to any foreground with any background
except black (anything on not black.)  You can set the user attribute by
entering review mode and pressing A.  This will set the attribute the same as
the character currently under the Review cursor.  If you wish, you can
immediately follow this by a press of the F1 key to be prompted for the
foreground and background options.

39:Field Data : Undefined

Vocal-Eyes will attempt to single out the field data and read it for you.
Vocal-Eyes makes an assumption about this however.  First, your cursor is
already somewhere in the field data and the attribute for the data is
different then the attribute for the field names.  This is normally used for
data base programs.  If the color of the field data is not different than the
field name, but the field names all end in a similar character such as a
colon, Vocal-Eyes will still be able to detect the data from the name.  To
setup this field name terminator, use option 11 in the General submenu.

40:Field Name : Undefined

Vocal-Eyes will attempt to single out the field name and read it for you.
Vocal-Eyes makes an assumption about this however.  First, your cursor is
somewhere in the field data and the attribute for the data is different then
the attribute for the field name.  Also, the field name should be to the left
of the field data.  This is normally used for data base programs.  If the
color of the field data is not different than the field name, but the field
names all end in a similar character such as a colon, Vocal-Eyes will still
be able to detect the data from the name.  To setup this field name
terminator, use option 11 in the General submenu.

41:Any line : Undefined

When this hotkey is pressed, Vocal-Eyes will prompt for the line to be read.
Simply type a number from 1 to 99 and press ENTER.  Vocal-Eyes will read the
desired line.  Even if you are in Review Mode, the cursor will not be moved.

42:Spell word : Undefined

This will spell the word currently under the cursor.  If there is not a word
under the cursor, Vocal-Eyes will beep.  Notice, you could also use the Read
Current Word hot key but you would be required to press it twice to spell the
word.  While spelling, Vocal-Eyes will use a speech rate two levels below the
current screen voice rate.

43:Forward sent : Undefined

Assuming your applications program uses the four arrow keys to move the
cursor position, pressing this key will cause Vocal-Eyes to automatically
route your applications cursor to the next sentence and speak it.  If
necessary, Vocal-Eyes will cause your application to scroll down in order to
get the next sentence on the screen.  This is similar to the read to end
hotkey only this moves down sentence by sentence with each press of the
hotkey.  Vocal-Eyes assumes your text is in a single space format.  If it is
double spaced, Vocal-Eyes will not correctly determine the new sentence.

44:Back sent : Undefined

Assuming your applications program uses the four arrow keys to move the
cursor position, pressing this key will cause Vocal-Eyes to automatically
route your applications cursor to the previous sentence and speak it.  If
necessary, Vocal-Eyes will cause your application to scroll up in order to
get the previous sentence on the screen.  This works just like the Forward
sentence hotkey only in the reverse direction.

45:Forward para : Undefined

Assuming your applications program uses the four arrow keys to move the
cursor position, pressing this key will cause Vocal-Eyes to automatically
route your applications cursor to the next paragraph and speak it.  If
necessary, Vocal-Eyes will cause your application to scroll down in order to
get the next paragraph on the screen.  This is similar to the forward
sentence hotkey only this moves down paragraph by paragraph with each press
of the hotkey.  Vocal-Eyes assumes your text is in a single space format.  If
it is double spaced, Vocal-Eyes will not correctly determine the new
paragraph.  Also, if a paragraph is extremely large, Vocal-Eyes may not read
the entire paragraph.  Vocal-Eyes tries to get the entire paragraph on the
screen.  It may not be able to do this because of the paragraph size.

46:Back para : Undefined

Assuming your applications program uses the four arrow keys to move the
cursor position, pressing this key will cause Vocal-Eyes to automatically
route your applications cursor to the previous paragraph and speak it.  If
necessary, Vocal-Eyes will cause your application to scroll up in order to
get the previous paragraph on the screen.  This works just like the Forward
paragraph hotkey only in the reverse direction.

47:Read Bar : Undefined

This will read all characters within the currently active window which have
an attribute the same as what the Light Bar Attribute is set at.  If you have
not set the Light Bar Attribute, it will default to any foreground with any
background except black (anything on not black.)  You can set the Light Bar
attribute by entering review mode and pressing B.  This will set the
attribute the same as the character currently under the Review cursor.  If
you wish, you can immediately follow this by a press of the F1 key to be
prompted for the foreground and background options.  Note that each of the
ten windows contains its own light bar attribute.  Therefore when you switch
windows, the light bar attribute set for that window will become the current
light bar attribute.  If you press this key a second time in a row, the
lightbar will be spelled.  A third time in a row will spell the lightbar
phonetically.  In either case, it will be spelled with a speech rate two
levels below the current screen voice rate.

48:Time/date : Undefined

Pressing this hotkey will cause Vocal-Eyes to speak the current time and
date.  The time and date is retrieved directly from your computer system.  If
your computer is setup with the incorrect information, this hotkey will read
the incorrect time and date.  Sounding Board users already have such a key.
Feel free to user either key and undefine the other.

49:Address : Control-A

This will read the location of your applications cursor position in the form
Cx, Ly.  For example, C25, L9 would mean your cursor is in the 25th column of
the 9th line.

50:Silence : Control-X

If interruptability is enabled, it would be as if this hot key were
undefined.  The only way to use this hot key is if interruptability is turned
off or set to cursor keys only.  Then a simple press would silence speech.
If information is still being displayed on the screen but has been silenced
by pressing this key, a second press would start the reading again.

51:Review : Control-ENTER

This is the alternative keystroke to enter Review Mode.  The other would be
the fast Review key.  If you are creating a macro which enters Review Mode,
you will have to use this hot key.  Otherwise you should use the fast review
hotkey to enter Review Mode.

52:VE cursor : GRAY -

This is your hotkey to toggle between using the numeric keypad for your
applications cursor or the VE cursor.  The VE cursor is an interactive way of
reviewing your screen.  Once enabled and the numlock is off, the standard
keypad become commands to Vocal-Eyes.  The insert or 0 key can be used as a
shift key to allow even more commands all with one hand.  Using the VE cursor
instead of Review Mode allows you to review the screen without suspending the
underlying applications program.

53:Menu : Control-\

This is the keystroke to pull up the Voice Control Panel.  If you undefine
this key and exit the menus, you would not be able to redefine it since you
would have no way of popping up the Voice Control Panel again.  Therefore be
sure you have this hot key set exactly as you wish before exiting to you
applications program.

54:Bypass : Control-N

This is used if you have defined a hot key to the same keystroke as one of
your applications keys.  Since Vocal-Eyes takes precedence, you would
normally not be able to issue your applications key.  Unless you proceed the
keystroke with this hot key.  Then the next keystroke would be allowed to
pass on to your application program.  What if you wanted to send a Control-N
to your application?  That's correct, press Control-N twice.  The first is
the Bypass command causing the next command to be passed along.  Also in
Review mode, if you wish to execute a hot key which has been defined the same
as a Review command, you must proceed the hot key with a press of this hot
key in order to bypass the Review command and activate the requested hot key
command.  If you are in Review and you have undefined this key or have
assigned it to a Review Mode command, you will need to press the ` (grave
accent) as the bypass command instead of this hot key.

55:Attr On/Off : Undefined

This will toggle the attribute read feature on and off.  If on, Vocal-Eyes
will voice an attribute if it is different than the previous attribute.  This
way, you can tell exactly how the text appears on the screen.  Remember the
attribute is only read if it is different then the last character read.
Note, this can also be changed in the Screen submenu.  Option 12 "Attribute
Changes."

56:Hyper On/Off : Undefined

This will toggle all hyperactive windows on and off.  If you wish to
temporarily disable all hyperactive windows and later enable them, this would
be a good choice.  Once disabled, Vocal-Eyes will not monitor them for the
specified change.  It would be as if you set the status of all hyperactive
windows to off.  Note, you can also toggle the hyperactive windows on and off
in the General submenu.  Option 10 "Hyperactive Status."

57:Bar Toggle : Undefined

This is used to toggle the Light bar feature either off, on or auto.  If on,
the four arrow keys and the HOME, END, PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN keys will speak
the light bar when pressed.  If this feature is set to auto, Vocal-Eyes will
automatically detect when a lightbar is being used and speak it if necessary.
If it detects a lightbar is not being used, the arrows, home, end, page up
and page down keys will be passed through to the cursoring keys if defined.
Note, this can also be changed in the General submenu.  Option 5 "Bar Track."
It can also be changed in Review Mode using the ALT-F7 command.  Remember,
each window contains not only the lightbar color but also the lightbar
status.  Switching from one window to another will directly effect this
setting.

58:Load RAM set : Undefined

This will cause Vocal-Eyes to ask which RAM set file to load.  You simply
press a number between 1 and 9.  If you try and load from a RAM location
which has not been defined using the /!Fn parameter, you will get the error
"RAM location undefined."  If you press the question mark (?), Vocal-Eyes
will display a menu with each RAM location as a choice.  Simply cursor to the
desired RAM location and press ENTER.  That RAM location will be loaded.  If
you press the ESCAPE, the load will be aborted.  This is an extremely fast
and efficient way of loading in new .SET files.

59:Select Win : Undefined

This will cause Vocal-Eyes to ask which window you wish to make the currently
active one.  This works just like F3 in Review Mode.  Simply press the window
number 0-9.  The specified window will now be the currently active window.
You can use this command inside or outside Review Mode.

60:Macro Toggle : Undefined

This is used when creating macros.  It should be the very first and very last
keystroke of each and every macro.  It causes Vocal-Eyes to voice only those
keystrokes which specifically ask for speech while the macro is playing back.
If you press this key from the keyboard, it will always toggle the voice on.
Only during macro playback will this toggle off and on.  If you forget to
turn the toggle back on in a macro, the speech will not speak as it normally
does.  If this is the case, simply press this key and it should act normally
again.  For a complete description of using macros with Vocal-Eyes please
refer to section 16.

61:Block Write : Undefined

This will cause Vocal-Eyes to send the contents of the block buffer to the
application program.  The application program will think the characters are
coming from the keyboard.  If you wish to stop sending characters, press the
ESCAPE key.  To place data in the block buffer, you must enter Review mode
and move the cursor to the top left or bottom right of the block you wish
copied.  Then press P to place a marker at this location.  Then move the
cursor to the opposite corner and press R if you wish all of the characters
on the screen within this temporary window to replace the existing data in
the block buffer or T if you wish the new data to be tagged on the end of the
existing data.