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Homepage Reader

Description: Come and learn about navigating the worldwide web with IBM's LATEST version (3.0) of the HomePage Reader self-voicing browser. HPR is now a stand-alone product. It now handles JavaScript and includes Homepage Mailer, an e-mail client. Topics include: keyboard commands, email, forms, reading modes, low vision features, RealAudio, WAV, TXT, PDF, and more.

1. Introduction
   • What is HPR?
     Home Page Reader (HPR) is a spoken on-ramp (self-voicing brower) to the Information Highway for computer users who are blind or visually impaired.
   • What does it Cost?
     Individual license (includes software speech synthesizer), part # 00P7830, suggest retail price $149
   • Where can I get a copy? Demo/Full
     Demo - http://www-3.ibm.com/able/
     Full - Purchase Home Page Reader for Windows Version 3.0 or www.amazon.com
   • Why should I use this?
     Easy; pwoerful; multi-lingual support; reading modes; navigate by headings, tables, words, items; integrated email; user voicing preferences for headings, links, dialog boxes; low vision support;  high-lighting synchronized with speech; customizable search.
   • How will it work with my existing assistive technology?
     should work fine. see http://www-3.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/screenread.html for specific screen reader information.
2. Overview
   • Installation - self voicing or with screen reader.
   • Starting HPR
     Ctrl + Alt + H
   • Review of screen layout and Views
     • Move focus cycle through on-screen views and address bar - F6
   • Adjust speech rate
     Increase (10 wpm) - Alt + Page-up
     Decrease (10 wpm) - Alt + Page-down
   • Help
     Context sensitive Help (dependant on focus) - F1
     Help Menu - Alt + H
3. Reading a page
   • Getting Oriented - HPR - HTML Practice Page
     1. Page Summary - Control + F1
        • Title.
        • Number of links.
        • Number of items.
        • Number of forms.
        • Number of frames and the current frame number.
        • Number of tables.
     2. Where am I? - Alt + F1 (again for more detail)
   • Basic Functions
     1. Stop & Start Speech
        Start speech - Space Bar (Fast Foward - Shift + Space Bar)
        Stop speech - Control
     2. Universal Reading Keys (keys that work anywhere, any time)
        Next Word - Control + Right Arrow
        Previous Word - Control + Left Arrow
        Links List - Control + L
        Toggle Punctuation Announcement - Contol + T
     3. Previous, Current, Next (PCN) Keys.
        Previous - Left Arrow
        Current - Down Arrow
        Next - Right Arrow
     4. Reading Modes
        HPR 3.0 reading modes offer you several different choices of how to read a Web page. You can elect to read through the content of Web pages from top to bottom using the characters, words, items or windows cursors reading modes. You can also skip through Web pages by jumping to links, the top of tables, headings, or form controls. There's even a reading mode to make table navigation easier.
   • Item Reading Mode (default)
     1. Hot Key - Alt-I
     2. What is an Item
        • Paragraph
        • Heading
          1. Heading Reading Mode (annouces heading level)
             1. Hot Key - Alt-1
             2. PCN
        • Table Cell
        • List Item
        • Control (including form controls)
        • Area of Image Map
        • What about pictures and images.
     3. PCN
   • Word Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-W
     2. PCN
   • Character Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-C
     2. PN and phonetic
   • Windows Cursor Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-N
     2. Up, Down, Left, Right
4. Links
   • Focus and Activate (Tab & Enter)
   • Links Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-L
     2. PCN
   • Links List (Ctrl-L)
   • Image Links & Image Maps
5. Tables
   •  Table Jump Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-J
     2. PCN
   • Tables with and without good markup
   • Simple Table Navigation
     1. Item Reading and Windows Cursor Modes
   • Complex Tables - Table Navigation Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-T
     2. Arrow Keys, Home, End, Page-Up, Page-Down, + Control
6. Forms
   • Controls Reading Mode
     1. Hot Key - Alt-O
     2. PCN
7. Frames
   • Frame Set List (Ctrl-E)
   • Move between frames - Control-Tab
8. Using the Web & Managing Your Surfing
   • Setting-up and Using Dial-up Networking
     (instructions in HPR readme.txt)
   • Open a Page - Ctrl-O
     1. Editing keys
   • Page Navigation Functions
     1. Cancel a connection or download - ESC
     2. Refresh page - F5, or Ctrl-R
     3. Forward and Back a page
        Forward - Alt - Right Arrow
        Back - Alt - Left Arrow
     4. Go Menu - Alt-G
     5. History List - F6
     6. Favorites - Alt-A
   • Page Management
     1.  Print a whole page
        use F6 to select view (text or graphics), Control-P
        • Graphics View (print with images)
        • Text View (default view - print text only)
     2. Save a whole page
        use F6 to select view, Contol-S
        • Graphics View (text or html)
        • Text View (text or rtf)
     3. Selecting all or portion of a page
        • All - Control-A
        • Portion
          • begin block - Control-B
          • end block - Control-D
          • speak block - Control-K
        • Copy, Save, Print
9. Search (Ctrl-F)
   Find again - F3
   • On a Page
   • On the Web in general
   • Using any search engine on any site (Settings | Search Engine)
10. Other Features
    • Real Audio (Play - Control-P, Pause - Control-P, Stop - Control-S) http://www.npr.org/realmedia/news2a.ram
    • PDF http://www.tsbvi.edu/bank.pdf
    • Low-vision
    • Leading and Trailing Text
    • Multilingual Support
11. HPR Mailer (Ctrl-M)
    • Setting Up &  Help
    • Create and send a message
    • Getting and Reading Mail

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