MAGic(r) Screen Magnification Software with Speech Quick Start Guide Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC February 2004 MAGic(r) Quick Start Guide PUBLISHED BY Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC 11800 31st Court North St. Petersburg, Florida 33716-1805 USA http://www.FreedomScientific.com Information in this document is subject to change without notice. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Freedom Scientific. Copyright (c) 2001 Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 1998 Henter-Joyce, Inc., All Rights Reserved. MAGic and JAWS are registered trademarks of Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC in the United States and other countries. OpenBook, WYNN, and Connect Outloud are trademarks of Freedom Scientific BLV Group, LLC in the United States. Microsoft, Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Home/Pro, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademark of their respective owners. Welcome to MAGic MAGic is a software solution ideally suited for computer users with low vision, or anyone who spends extended periods of time in front of a computer screen. MAGic lets you magnify your computer screen from 1 to 16 times its usual size. You can choose from a number of different adjustable views that let you see both a magnified and unmagnified portion of the screen at the same time. Speech features assist you in processing the information on your screen. MAGic can read text that you type or point at with the mouse. MAGic moves the magnified area of the screen so you always see the text being read and highlights words as they are spoken. Mouse and cursor enhancements help you track the location of the mouse pointer and cursor on the screen. You can choose from a wide variety of enhancement styles. MAGic lets you change the color of these enhancements, apply transparency effects, adjust their size, and more. Color enhancements let you change how colors display on your screen. You can create rules that replace one color with another or switch two colors. You can also apply color tinting, make your screen black-and- white (monochrome), and invert the brightness and colors of your display. Other MAGic features track elements of your screen, such as the mouse pointer, dialog boxes, and so on. The Locator feature provides you with a way to quickly find and move to different areas of the screen. The MAGic multi-directional panning system gives you complete control with adjustable speed, direction, stop and start, and screen navigation controls. System Requirements The recommended system requirements for MAGic are listed below. MAGic Standard - Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP Home* MAGic Professional - Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Home and Pro* Processor speed 166 MHz RAM 64 MB Available hard disk space for installation 75 MB Available hard disk space after installation 45 MB Video 256 color graphics** Sound Windows compatible sound card (for speech * Some MAGic features are not available for Windows 95/98/ME users. ** While MAGic will work with 256 colors, it is recommended that you use high or true color depth (16-bit color or higher). Installing MAGic 1. Insert the MAGic CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. The MAGic Setup program starts. You will hear the installation speak the instructions as they appear on your screen. Follow these instructions to complete the MAGic installation. If your MAGic installation CD does not start automatically, click the Start button, select Run, and type D:\setup. If your CD-ROM is not D, substitute the correct drive letter. The MAGic setup program will then begin. Choose to run the automatic or guided installation of MAGic. The automatic installation assumes that you want to install all languages and you approve of the default location where MAGic is stored on your hard disk. Use the guided installation if you want to specify which languages to install, where MAGic is stored on your computer, or whether MAGic should start automatically when you start Windows. To uninstall MAGic go to the Program menu and select the Uninstall MAGic option in the MAGic submenu. Starting MAGic MAGic gives you a variety of ways to start the program. * Press the hot key, ALT+CTRL+M, which is automatically assigned when you install MAGic. * Double-click the MAGic icon on your desktop. * From the Start menu, choose Programs, open the MAGic submenu, and choose MAGic. After you start MAGic for the first time, you can choose to run the program when Windows starts. To do this, open the File menu, choose Preferences, and select the Run MAGic at Startup check box. Quitting MAGic To quit MAGic, do one of the following: * Press ALT+F4 * Click the in the top right hand corner of the window. * Select Exit from the File menu. Tip: If you want MAGic to ask you to save your settings when you quit, open the File menu and choose Preferences. Select the Prompt to Save Settings on Exit check box. Getting Started Start MAGic by pressing ALT+CTRL+M or by double-clicking the MAGic program icon on your Windows desktop. You can also start MAGic by opening the Start menu, choosing Programs, MAGic and then selecting MAGic. Tip: You can change how and when MAGic starts by opening the File menu and choosing Preferences. When you first start MAGic, your screen is displayed in 2× magnification using the Full view. Speech will also be enabled. You can change the magnification level, magnified view, speech, and many other options by using the MAGic user interface. The user interface is a small window that appears in approximately the center of your display. This window allows you to control all aspects of MAGic and contains the magnification and speech buttons in addition to the MAGic menu and title bars. The user interface is shown below. Magnification and Speech Buttons One of the first things you will notice about the user interface is the rows of blue and orange buttons. The blue buttons control magnification features while the orange buttons control speech. Below are brief descriptions of each button. Use the Magnification button to enable or disable magnification. The current magnification level can be adjusted with the two Magnification Level buttons. The number in the between the two buttons shows the current level. Use the Mouse Enhancements button to enable/disable enhancements and modifications for your mouse pointer. These enhancements make the mouse pointer easier to track and maneuver on your screen. Use the Cursor Enhancements button to enable/disable enhancements for your cursor. These enhancements make the cursor easier to follow when editing or writing text. Use the Colors Enhancements button to enable/disable color enhancements. This feature allows you to replace colors, adjust the brightness and contrast, apply tinting, blend colors, and invert the brightness and colors of your display. Use the Locator button to enable/disable the Locator function. The Locator function allows you to find items on your screen. Use the Smoothing button to enable/disable smoothing. This feature smoothes the appearance of jagged letters in a magnified state. The Resize View button allows you to change the dimensions of your magnified view. Select your preferred magnified view from the Magnified Views list. Use the Speech button to enable or disable speech. Use the Mouse Echo button to toggle the mouse echo feature on and off. The mouse echo feature enables MAGic to read text that you point at with the mouse. Use the Typing Echo button to enable or disable the typing echo. If typing echo is enabled, MAGic announces the words or characters you type. MAGic Menus Located above these buttons is the menu bar. The menu bar allows you to customize speech, magnification, and your keyboard. You can also view help information and perform other functions. Each menu is described below. File The File menu allows you to save your settings, restore the original Freedom Scientific settings, and change your MAGic preferences. Magnification The Magnification menu allows you to customize how you view your screen with MAGic. You can also change mouse options, panning settings, view properties and more. Speech You can customize MAGic's speech components to fit your particular needs. The Speech menu allows you to customize how you hear MAGic. Keyboard The Keyboard menu allows you to customize how you use your PC's keyboard with MAGic. You can re- assign the MAGic Key to a different key and manage shortcut keys. Help The Help menu provides you with detailed help information for the various MAGic functions and options. You can also view information on the newest features for this release and see your current MAGic version. The MAGic Key The MAGic Key is the CAPS LOCK key on your keyboard. Pressing the MAGic Key in combination with other keys activates a number of MAGic commands. If you want to assign the MAGic Key to a different key on your keyboard, open the Keyboard menu and choose MAGic Key. Reading Text with MAGic MAGic can use synthesized speech to read text that appears on your screen, including documents, menus, dialog boxes, e-mail messages, Web pages, and more. Additionally, MAGic can highlight the text as it is spoken. To customize MAGic's speech, use the commands available on the Speech menu. Tip: You can silence MAGic's speech at any time by pressing CTRL. To toggle speech on or off, press MAGic Key+F3. Using the Mouse to Read Text Mouse echo is a feature that allows you to read text with your mouse. To use mouse echo, just move your mouse pointer to some text on your screen and then stop. After a short delay, MAGic will speak the word you pointed to. You can use the Mouse Echo button to enable or disable this feature. Using the Keyboard to Read Text MAGic has a number of different keystrokes that let you use the keyboard to read text. To use these keystrokes, move your insertion point or mouse pointer to any location within the document. Then press one of the following key combinations to read from that location: * To begin reading from your current location, press MAGic Key+SPACEBAR. * To read the current word, press MAGic Key+ALT * To spell the current word, press MAGic Key+ALT twice quickly. * To read the current line, press MAGic Key+L. * To read the current sentence, press MAGic Key+S. * To read the current paragraph, press MAGic Key+P. * To read any connected words with the same foreground and background colors, press MAGic Key+CTRL. You can use this command to read text that you have selected. * To hear the contents of the Clipboard, press MAGic Key+C. Note: By default, the MAGic Key is assigned to the CAPS LOCK key. To change this, open the Keyboard menu and choose MAGic Key. When you read text with these keystrokes, MAGic highlights the word it is currently speaking. To change the color and/or style of this highlighting, open the Speech menu and choose Document and Text Reading. Getting Help Online Help System To access MAGic's online help system, select Help Topics from the Help menu, which is located on the menu bar of the MAGic application window. Use the Table of Contents to navigate the help system. Use the Index or the Find tabs to search for specific topics within the help system. If you want MAGic to read the help topics to you, position the mouse pointer at the beginning of the help page, and press MAGic Key+SPACEBAR. To move to the next topic, press the PERIOD key, and, to move back a topic, use the COMMA key. Additionally, the Back button will take you directly back to the topic you read prior to the one currently displayed. What's This? Help MAGic's What's This? help is context-sensitive help that you can use as a reference when working with MAGic's user interface or dialog boxes. Press SHIFT+F1 on any button on the user interface, or control in a dialog box to see a brief description of the purpose of the control and how to use it. MAGic User's Guide We provide you with the content of the MAGic online help system in the MAGic User's Guide, which is printed in large text for easier reading. This book contains detailed descriptions of MAGic's features, and also pull-out reference cards. Technical Support If you do not find the answers to questions or problems that you have, contact Freedom Scientific Technical Support, (727) 803-8600. About MAGic Select About MAGic from the Help menu on the MAGic user interface to view the version number of MAGic you are currently running. MAGic Hot Keys General Start MAGic ALT+CTRL+M Minimize/Restore the MAGic UserInterface MAGic Key+NUM PAD ASTERISK Pass Through Key MAGic Key+3 Refresh Screen MAGic Key+ESC Magnification, Views, & Enhancements Increase Magnification MAGic Key+NUM PAD PLUS or CTRL+EQUALS Decrease Magnification MAGic Key+NUM PAD MINUS or CTRL+DASH Magnification Toggle On/Off MAGic Key+DELETE Switch between Magnified Views MAGic Key+NUM PAD SLASH Toggle Color Enhancements On/Off MAGic Key+F12 Toggle Cursor Enhancements On/Off MAGic Key+F8 Toggle Mouse Enhancements On/Off MAGic Key+F4 Panning and Screen Movement Pan Right MAGic Key+RIGHT ARROW or MAGic Key+NUM PAD 6 Pan Left MAGic Key+LEFT ARROW or MAGic Key+NUM PAD 4 Pan Down MAGic Key+DOWN ARROW or MAGic Key+NUM PAD 2 Pan Up MAGic Key+UP ARROW or MAGic Key+NUM PAD 8 Increase Speed during Panning NUM PAD PLUS Decrease Speed during Panning NUM PAD MINUS Move to Left Edge of Screen in Magnified View MAGic Key+HOME Move to Right Edge of Screen in Magnified View MAGic Key+END Move to top of Screen MAGic Key+PAGE UP Move to Bottom of Screen MAGic Key+PAGE DOWN Move to Beginning of Next Line MAGic Key+ENTER Tracking Tracking Toggle On/Off MAGic Key+R Reposition Mouse MAGic Key+NUM PAD 5 Locator Mode Start Locator MAGic Key+F10 Stop Locator ESC Move Left LEFT ARROW Move Right RIGHT ARROW Move Up UP ARROW Move Down DOWN ARROW Move to End of Line END Move to Beginning of Line HOME Move to Top of Screen PAGE UP Move to Bottom of Screen PAGE DOWN Quick View Frame Set upper left corner of frame MAGic Key+LEFT BRACKET Set lower right corner of frame MAGic Key+RIGHT BRACKET Create frame around current dialog box option MAGic Key+LEFT BRACKET twice quickly Open Quick View Manager MAGic Key+9 Speech Silence Current Speech CTRL Enable/Disable Speech MAGic Key+F3 Language Toggle MAGic Key+F11 Note: On multi-language systems, the primary language by default is the language of the operating system. When you choose a second language, use MAGic Key+F11 to toggle between the primary and secondary language. To set another language, do so in the Voices dialog box, activated from the Speech menu on the MAGic user interface. Document Reading Read All from Location MAGic Key+SPACEBAR Read Active Window (reads from the beginning of document window) MAGic Key+SPACEBAR (twice) Say Title Bar MAGic Key+T Text Reading Say Current Color Block MAGic Key+CTRL Say Current Word MAGic Key+ALT Spell Current Word MAGic Key+ALT (twice) Say Current Line MAGic Key+L Say Current Sentence MAGic Key+S Say Current Paragraph MAGic Key+P Say Contents of Clipboard MAGic Key+C Note: When using the document and text reading commands, if you move the mouse MAGic reads from the current location of the mouse pointer. If you move the insertion point, MAGic reads from the location of the insertion point. Typing Echo Toggle announcement of uppercase letters on/off MAGic Key+F2 Mouse Echo Mouse Echo Toggle MAGic Key+M Note: Toggling the mouse echo rotates between speak lines, speak words, and mouse echo off. Some actions in MAGic do not have hot keys assigned. You can define hot keys for many of these features from within the Keyboard Assignments dialog box. Windows Shortcut Keys General Get Help F1 Open the Start menu WINDOWS Key or CTRL+ESC Open Windows Explorer WINDOWS Key+E Open the Run dialog box WINDOWS Key+R Find file or folder from Desktop F3 Minimize all windows WINDOWS Key+M Switch between programs ALT+TAB Quit the active program ALT+F4 For Windows and Menus Open the application control menu ALT+SPACEBAR Move to the menu bar ALT Choose a menu command ENTER Move between menus ALT, arrow keys Close a menu ESC Close a cascading menu ALT Open a child window control menu ALT+HYPHEN Close a child window CTRL+F4 Open the context menu APPLICATION Key or SHIFT+F10 For Dialog Boxes Move through dialog box options TAB Move backward through dialog box options SHIFT+TAB Move to another tab CTRL+TAB Reverse direction through tabs CTRL+SHIFT+TAB Move to first option HOME Move to last option END Select or clear an item in a list SPACEBAR or CTRL+SPACEBAR Select or clear a check box SPACEBAR For Reading Text Move left one character LEFT ARROW Move right one character RIGHT ARROW Move left one word CTRL+LEFT ARROW Move right one word CTRL+RIGHT ARROW Move to beginning of line HOME Move to end of line END Move up one paragraph CTRL+UP ARROW Move down one paragraph CTRL+DOWN ARROW Scroll up one screen PAGE UP Scroll down one screen PAGE DOWN Move to beginning of document CTRL+HOME Move to end of document CTRL+END For Editing Text Copy CTRL+C Cut CTRL+X Paste CTRL+V Undo CTRL+Z Delete character to the left BACKSPACE Delete character to the right DELETE Select one character left SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select one character right SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW Select one word left CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW Select one word right CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW Select to beginning of line SHIFT+HOME Select to end of line SHIFT+END Select to beginning of document CTRL+SHIFT+HOME Select to end of document CTRL+SHIFT+END Select all CTRL+A For Windows Explorer Delete selected file or folder DELETE Rename selected file or folder F2 Open properties ALT+ENTER Refresh a window F5 Switch between panes F6 or TAB Go up a level BACKSPACE 440062-001 Rev. 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