PAC Mate allows you to modify many settings that determine what and how much information JAWS reads. In addition: you can set alarm notifications, choose to read time in different formats, select what programs appear in the Start Menu and in the Programs submenu, and customize the Today Screen to view only those item you want.
Use the JAWS Verbosity dialog to set JAWS verbosity levels: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. This determines how much information JAWS speaks.
Go to the Start Menu (F3), move to Settings. When you press ENTER (DOT 8) on Settings you are in the Settings dialog on the Personal page list view. If nothing is selected, first press the SPACEBAR. Once an item is selected you can use first letter navigation. Press V (DOTS 1-2-3-6) once or use the cursor cross to move to Verbosity Settings. Once you have found it, press ENTER.
With the JAWS Verbosity Settings dialog open, use the cursor cross to select the Verbosity Level. Move to the Preferences button with the TAB command and press SPACEBAR. This opens the Preferences dialog, where you can choose how much information JAWS speaks. Press TAB to move about the dialog. Use the SPACEBAR to check the boxes next to the type of message you want to hear. In the Message Length combo box, use the cursor cross to select long or short. If you want to restore the default settings, move to the Restore Default Settings button and press SPACEBAR. To close the Preferences dialog and save the settings, press ENTER.
Before you exit out of JAWS Verbosity Settings, there are two more controls in this dialog that you should know about. They are the Tutor Messages and the Access Key Messages. These check boxes are checked by default. Tutor Messages provide navigational tips, while Access Key Messages provide information on the access key that moves you directly to a control or to an item in a menu. If you prefer to disable this additional verbosity, use the SPACEBAR and uncheck these controls.
If you want to continue adjusting features on your PAC Mate, return to the Settings dialog by pressing ENTER (DOT 8) and use first letter navigation or the cursor cross to move through the list view.
To escape the Settings dialog, press F1.
Use the Text Settings dialog to set preferences for how the Say All command (DOTS 4-5-6-8 CHORD) works.
To use this dialog, go to the Start Menu (F3), move to Settings. When you press ENTER on Settings you are on the Personal page list view of the Settings multi-page dialog.
If nothing is selected in the list view, press the SPACEBAR. If an item is selected when you first open the Settings dialog, press T once or use the cursor cross to move to Text Settings, then press ENTER.
With the Text Settings dialog open, use the cursor cross to make a selection in the Say All combo box. Your choices in this box are:
As you move forward (TAB) in this dialog you arrive on the Say Blank Lines check box, use the SPACEBAR to check it if you want blank lines announced when using the Say All command. This control is unchecked by default.
If you want JAWS to speak numeric dates in a different format, use the Numeric Date Processing combo box to select a format. Your choices are:
Use the TAB command again to move to the Number Processing combo box. This combo box allows you to determine how numbers are read. Use the cursor cross to make your selection. Your choices are:
The next control in this dialog is called Mixed Case Processing. This control causes JAWS to speak words that are joined together with capital letters, such as SayAll, as two words. This check box is enabled by default. To disable, use the SPACEBAR.
Immediately after the Mixed Case Processing check box, is the Speak Dollars check box. With this check box enabled, JAWS reads numbers preceded by a dollar sign ($) in the format of number of dollars and number of cents. For example, $9.95 is read as "nine dollars and ninety five cents." For monetary values less than a dollar, type a zero to the left of the decimal. For example, $0.02 is read as "two cents." This check box is disabled by default.
To close this dialog, press ENTER (DOT 8). If you want to explore the other pages in the Settings dialog, press SHIFT+TAB (DOTS 1-2 CHORD) until you hear, "Personal tab," then RIGHT ARROW to the other pages.
There may be times when you will find it necessary to know how a document is formatted, particularly if you are editing a document. For instance, a bibliography requires book and article titles. It includes authors, publishers and dates, which all require different attributes such as italic, underline, capitalization and indentation. With PAC Mate, you can enable these items in the Format Settings dialog.
To use the Format Setting dialog, go to the Start Menu (F3), move to Settings and press ENTER. When you open the Settings dialog you are on the Personal page list view of the Settings multi-page dialog. If nothing is selected in the list view, press the SPACEBAR. If an item is selected when you first open the Settings dialog, press F and ENTER to open Format Settings.
When you open Format Settings, you will hear PAC Mate say, "JAWS Format Settings dialog, speak text formatting check box, not checked." Before you can enable any item in this dialog, you must enable this check box with the SPACEBAR. After, the following items can be enabled:
When you are done with this dialog, press ENTER to return to the Settings dialog where you can continue adjusting other features of your PAC Mate. Remember, since JAWS Format Settings is already selected, you can use first letter navigation or the cursor cross to move through the list view.
To escape the Settings dialog, press F1.
This dialog controls the way PAC Mate reads pages written in html. If you intend to browse the web, getting familiar and understanding this dialog is imperative.
Go to the Start Menu (F3), move to Settings and press ENTER. When you open the Settings dialog, you are on the Personal page of the Settings multi-page dialog. If the Settings dialog opens with one of the thirteen items selected in the list view, press H once to select HTML Settings or use the cursor cross to select it. If an item is not selected, press SPACEBAR first, and then use first letter navigation. Once HTML Settings is selected, press ENTER.
When you open HTML Settings, you will hear PAC Mate say, "JAWS HTML Settings dialog, Skip Past Repeated Text On New Pages check box, checked." With this control checked, PAC Mate skips text that is repeated on web pages within the same web site and automatically moves the cursor to new text found on the page.
When you press TAB to move forward, the next control you encounter is the "Lines Per Page" edit field. This setting determines how many lines the cursor moves when pressing PAGE UP (DOT 2+UP ARROW) or PAGE DOWN (DOT 2+DOWN ARROW). With the default value set to twenty-four, the cursor moves twenty-four lines. For more information on moving through and reading text, please see PAC Mate Basics, Working with Text.
The next control is the "Maximum Line Length" edit field, which controls how many characters the cursor treats as one line of text. The default value is 150 characters.
Headings are used to understand how each section of text relates to the web page as a whole. Press TAB to move to the "Headings Verbosity" combo box. With the Headings Verbosity combo box, use the cursor cross to choose whether PAC Mate announces headings and whether this includes heading levels. The default setting is Headings with levels indicated.
Many web sites use Graphics as links. If you want PAC Mate to announce only graphical links that use alternate text, use the cursor cross to select Tagged Graphical Links in the Graphical Link Verbosity combo box.
In addition to graphical links, frames are another web structure you will encounter. To control how PAC Mate responds to frames, choose one of the three options in the New Frame Indication combo box. Your options are:
If you want to continue with adjusting HTML settings, press TAB to move to the Advanced button and press SPACEBAR. If you are done with this dialog, press ENTER to return to the Settings dialog. Press F1 to return to the Today Screen.
When you press SPACEBAR on the Advanced button in the JAWS HTML Settings dialog, you open the HTML Advanced dialog. The first three controls in this dialog are check boxes, which are checked by default. To uncheck the boxes, press the SPACEBAR.
The first check box of this dialog is the "Say Link Type" check box, which sets PAC Mate to announce the type of links encountered when navigating an HTML document. To move to the next control, press TAB.
With the "Identify Same Page Links" check box checked, PAC Mate announces when links point to other locations on the same page by stating, "same page link."
The "Indicate Tables" check box sets PAC Mate to announce the start of a table by declaring its number of columns and rows and when the end of the table is reached. To move to the next control, press TAB.
The "Text Block Length" edit box lets you specify the number of characters in a block of text. This control affects the H CHORD, T command used in Pocket Internet Explorer. When you press this command, PAC Mate moves to the next block of non-link text that is equal to or greater than the number of characters specified in this edit box. The default value is 25.
The "Text Link Verbosity" combo box determines what information PAC Mate speaks when a text-based link is encountered. The following options are available:
To move to the next control, press TAB.
Similar to the "Text Link Verbosity" combo box, the "Graphic Verbosity" combo box allows you to specify how you want PAC Mate to announce graphics within HTML documents. The following options are available:
The last control in this dialog is the "Image Map Link Verbosity" combo box. This control determines how images, mapped with coordinates for use as links, are announced. PAC Mate offers the following options:
If you are done, press ENTER twice to return to the Settings dialog. Then press F1 to return to the Today Screen.
When you want to adjust the amount of feedback you receive as you type in an edit field, use the "JAWS Keyboard Settings" dialog.
To use this dialog, go to the Start Menu (F3), press S to open the Settings dialog. The Settings dialog opens to the Personal page of a multi-page dialog. A list view of thirteen items is the first control on this page.
If nothing is selected in the list view, press the SPACEBAR. If an item is selected when you first open the Settings dialog, press K once or use the cursor cross to move to Keyboard Settings, then press ENTER.
When you open this dialog, the "Typing Echo" combo box is active and ready for you to use the cursor cross to select an option. Your options in this combo box are:
When you are done making your selection, press TAB to move to the next control.
Tip: You can also change these options with S CHORD, K. Continue to press K until you select the option you want.
The next two controls, "Typing Interrupt" and "Reading Interrupt," stop speech when typing or reading keys are pressed. These two controls are enabled by default. To disable either control, press the SPACEBAR.
To save your settings and return to the Settings dialog, press ENTER. To close the Settings dialog and return to the Today Screen, press F1. Or if you want to explore the other pages in the Settings dialog, press SHIFT+TAB until you hear, "Personal tab," then RIGHT ARROW to the other pages.
Use the Today dialog to change the items and their information listed on your Today Screen.
To use the Today dialog, go to the Start Menu (F3), move to Settings and press ENTER. Next, press the SPACEBAR once to activate the Settings list view on the Personal page. From there, press T twice and ENTER to open the Today dialog.
Note: When the Today dialog opens, PAC Mate announces "Today dialog, Appearance page." This page allows you to change the Appearance of Pocket PC’s user interface and is unsupported in PAC Mate.
Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear "Appearance tab," then press the RIGHT ARROW to move to the Items tab. From the Items tab, press TAB to activate the Items page. Use the cursor cross to move up and down the list of items and press the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck the associated boxes.
You can rearrange the order in which the items appear on the Today Screen. Use the cursor cross to move to each item in the list view. Press TAB to see which of the three buttons, the Move Down, Move Up, and Options, become available for each item. Use the SPACEBAR to activate the buttons. The Options button lets you alter the information that is displayed for Calendar and Tasks.
To save your settings and return to the Settings dialog, press ENTER. To close the Settings dialog and return to the Today Screen, press F1.
While this Settings' dialog has limited support, it does contain two controls that may be beneficial for you to know about. The first control is the "Voice Recording Format" combo box. The settings in this combo box determine the quality of your voice recording. The default setting is 8000 Hz, Mono (2 KB/s), which gives you the longest possible recording time, but with the least amount of recording quality. Naturally, Pocket PC offers you a wide variety of settings to choose from. To learn more about the Voice Recording Feature, please see Using PAC Mate Programs, Creating a Recording.
The second control in this dialog is the "Capitalize first letter of sentence" check box. With a check in this box, anytime you press ENTER to start a new line in an edit field, the first letter of the line is capitalized. This control works only with Pocket PC programs.
To access these controls, go to the Input dialog (F3, S, I, ENTER) and move over to the Options page with CTRL+TAB. As the page opens the first active control is the "Voice Recording Format" combo box. Make your selection using the arrow keys and then press TAB until you reach the "Capitalize the first letter of sentence" check box. Use the SPACEBAR to disable or enable this control.
When a program becomes unstable or when program memory is low, the first step to take is to free memory manually by stopping any active programs on your PAC Mate.
To do this, open the Settings dialog from the Start Menu (F3, S). Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear, "Personal tab," then use the RIGHT ARROW to move to the System tab. Now, press TAB, M, ENTER to open the Memory multi-page dialog. Next, move to the Running Programs tab (SHIFT+TAB, RIGHT ARROW). To move to the list view on the Running Programs page press TAB and select the Program(s) in the list using the DOWN ARROW. Last, move to (TAB) and activate (SPACEBAR) either the Stop button or Stop All button.
The second step would be to store files on a compact flash card. Press F3, move to Programs and press ENTER. Move to File Explorer and press ENTER again. Select the file with the DOWN or UP ARROW, or select multiple files with DOWN or UP ARROW+SPACEBAR. Next, press F2 CHORD and from the context menu, choose Cut and press ENTER. Press F2, use the DOWN ARROW to select Flash Disk and press ENTER. With Flash Disk open, press F2 CHORD again, choose Paste and press ENTER. For more information on working with File Explorer, please see Using Windows CE with PAC Mate, Using File Explorer.
If the first two steps do not free enough memory, the third step would be to delete unnecessary files. In File Explorer, choose a file(s), press F2 CHORD, and select Delete.
To find and delete your largest files, Go to the Start Menu (F3) and choose Find. Press TAB to move into the Type combo box, and select Larger than 64 KB, then press SPACEBAR on the Go button.
In Internet Explorer, delete all files and clear history.
The last step would be to remove the programs you are not currently using. For more information on removing programs, please see PAC Mate Basics, Removing Programs.
The Notification System on PAC Mate is controlled from the Sounds & Notifications settings dialog. In this dialog, you can choose what events you'd like to receive notifications for, and how you'd like to be notified.
Note: PAC Mate does not support pop-up screen display notifications or screen taps.
You open the Sounds & Notifications dialog from the Settings list view on the Personal page. To quickly move to the Sounds & Notification dialog from the Today Screen, press F3, S. If the list view on the Settings dialog is active, press another S.
If you open the Settings multi-page dialog and the Personal tab is active, press TAB once to move onto the Personal page and then press the SPACEBAR to select an item in the list view. Once an item is selected in the list view, use first letter navigation.
The Sounds & Notifications dialog opens on the Volume page with the system volume control active. This particular control is a left/right slider, which you adjust with the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS. After you press TAB to move forward, the next control is the "Enable sounds for Events (warnings, system events)" check box. Press the SPACEBAR to enable this control if you want to be alerted to system events such as the start and/or completion of synchronization or when e-mail arrives in your inbox. The next two controls are similar, except that it applies to program notifications such as reminders and alarms. Be sure to enable both the Programs and Notifications check boxes if you want to use appointment/task reminders and the alarms on the clock. The last control in this dialog is the "Enable sounds for Hardware buttons" check box. This control is similar to the Typing Echo control in the Keyboard Settings dialog, except that it is a key click. If you check this box, be sure to move to the accompanying radio buttons where you can use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS to decide how loud you’d like the "clicks" to be.
When you are done with the Volume page, move to the Volume tab. This can be done with the SHIFT+TAB or TAB command. Once on the Volume tab, press the RIGHT ARROW to move to the Notifications tab and press TAB once to move onto the Notifications page.
On this page, the "Select an event" and the "Select how to be notified, Play sound" controls work in tandem. That is, as you select an event from the combo box, move forward and enable the Play sound check box. Then move to the next control, which is a combo box, and choose the sound you want to hear for this event’s notification. Remember in combo boxes, the UP and DOWN ARROW selects, while the SPACEBAR activates buttons.
When you are done with these settings, press ENTER to save and close this dialog. Press F1 to return to the Today Screen.
Depending on the programs you use most, you may find it useful to arrange the Start Menu and the Today Screen New Menu differently than the default. This is done from the Menus dialog
To navigate and open this dialog, press F3, S to open the Settings dialog. With the list view on the Settings dialog active, press M, ENTER to open the Menus dialog.
The Menus dialog opens with the list view in the Start Menu page active. Use the cursor cross to move up and down the list. Programs with a check in their box appear in the Start Menu, while programs with a clear check box appear in the Programs Submenu. Press the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck a box. The Start Menu can only hold nine programs.
When you are done with setting the Start Menu, press TAB to move to the Start Menu tab and press the RIGHT ARROW to move to the New Menu tab.
(If you are not yet familiar with this menu, go to the Today Screen and press F2.)
Because the first control on the New Menu page, "Turn on New button menu," is not supported, press TAB twice to move to the list view. Use the cursor cross to move up and down the list and press the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck the item. All checked items appear in the New Menu on the Today Screen.
To set your PAC Mate to reflect the currency, time, date and numbers of a foreign country, use the Regional Settings dialog. Pocket PC has over 80 foreign regional settings to choose from.
You open the Regional Settings dialog from the Settings list view on the Systems page. To quickly move to the Regional Settings dialog from the Today Screen, press F3, S. When the Settings dialog opens, press SHIFT+TAB to move to the Personal tab, then press the RIGHT ARROW to move to the Systems page. If the System page is not active as you move from the Personal tab, press TAB once to move onto the Systems page and then press R for Regional Settings and ENTER to open the dialog.
The Regional Settings dialog opens with the Region page active. There is only one control on this page. For this combo box control, use the cursor cross to select a region.
If you want to make further changes or just explore the other pages in this dialog, press TAB to move to the Region tab and use the cursor cross to move back and forth between pages. To move onto a page and navigate through the controls use the TAB and SHIFT+TAB commands. To make a selection in combo boxes, remember to use the UP and DOWN ARROWS.
The Clock program features two clocks: one for home and one for visiting. So if you visit or have family that lives in a particular time zone you may want to adjust your Visiting clock to reflect that time zone. The Home clock is intended to keep time for the zone that you live in.
Go to the Start Menu (F3), press S to open the Settings multi-page dialog. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear, "Personal tab," then use the RIGHT ARROW to move to the System tab. On the System tab, press TAB once and then press C to select Clock. On Clock, press ENTER.
To view the Home or Visiting clock, use the UP or DOWN ARROW to choose the appropriate radio button. Each clock allows you to change the time zone, the time, and the date. Press TAB to move to any one of these controls. For the Time Zone combo box, choose a zone with the UP or DOWN ARROWS. For the time and date controls, you will use all the keys of the cursor cross. To move between the hour, minutes, seconds of the time control, use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS. To set these parameters, use the UP and DOWN ARROWS. These same commands apply to the date control as well.
This feature accommodates up to four alarm settings and requires that you enable the "Notifications (alarms, reminders) check box in the Sounds & Notifications dialog. For more information, please see Setting Up PAC Mate, System Sounds & Notifications.
From the Today Screen, you access the alarm using the same steps for accessing the clock.
Go to the Start Menu (F3), press S to open the Settings multi-page dialog. Press SHIFT+TAB until you hear, "Personal tab," then use the RIGHT ARROW to move to the System tab. On the System tab, press TAB once and then press C to select Clock. On Clock, press ENTER.
Once this dialog opens, press DOTS 5-6 CHORD to move to the Alarms tab.
Now, press TAB once to hear, "Alarm 1 check box not checked." To enable or disable check boxes, use the SPACEBAR. The next control you encounter is an edit field where you can type in a reason for the alarm. To choose how you would like to be notified, activate the "Set Notification Sound button" with the SPACEBAR.
This opens a new dialog, which consists of three check boxes and a combo box. Use the appropriate commands to navigate and activate the controls on this page. When you are done, press F1 to return to the Alarms page.
The last control to set for the alarm is the day(s) you want it to sound. For instance, you would like your alarm to sound off everyday except Saturday and Sunday. To select Monday through Friday, move to each day with the LEFT or RIGHT ARROW and press the SPACEBAR. You should hear "Monday selected," "Tuesday select," etc., but for each weekend day you will only hear Saturday and Sunday. To unselect a day, press the SPACEBAR again.
If you prefer reading time in 24 hour format, close the Clock dialog by pressing ENTER. Then open the Regional Settings dialog by pressing R, ENTER. Press SHIFT+TAB to move to the Region tab, and then use the RIGHT ARROW to move to the Time tab. To change the time display to 24 hours, choose a time style that starts with a capital "H."
You can assign eight hotkey commands, which opens the program(s), to any of the programs on your PAC Mate from within the Buttons dialog. The following table lists the default program for each command.
|
Program |
Command |
|
Record |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 1 |
|
Calendar |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 2 |
|
Contacts |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 3 |
|
Tasks |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 4 |
|
Inbox |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 5 |
|
File Explorer |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 6 |
|
FSEdit |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 7 |
|
FSCalc |
DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 8 |
To assign a different program to a command, open the Buttons dialog by pressing F3, S. When the Settings dialog opens Buttons should already be selected in the list view. If so, press ENTER.
If not, press the SPACEBAR to select it and then press ENTER.
The Buttons dialog opens with the Program Buttons page. The list view, which has the eight hotkey commands and default programs, is active.
You select a hotkey command by moving up or down with the cursor cross, then you press TAB (DOTS 4-5 CHORD) to move to the Button Assignment combo box. Use the arrow keys to move through the list and select a program you want to associate with the hotkey command.
To assign the next program to a hotkey, press SHIFT+TAB (DOTS 1-2 CHORD) to move back to the list view. Press DOWN ARROW to move to DOTS 3-4 CHORD, DOT 2. By default this button is set to Contacts. To change the program, repeat the steps discussed above.
In addition to assigning programs to hotkey commands, you can assign commands for scrolling. These options are also listed in the Button Assignment combo box.