ALVA Satellite and Jaws for Windows

Excellent navigation possibilities in Internet Explorer, and there is more...

The ALVA Satellite braille displays feature the most enhanced ergonomic design to date. This also extends the navigation and operation possibilities of the Jaws for Windows screen reader dramatically. With twin satellite key pads, double touch cursors, three status cells, and activation of speech feedback from the braille display, the ALVA Satellite in combination with Jaws for Windows allows you to be twice as productive, twice as creative and have twice as much fun, especially when exploring the Internet.

Windows and Speech Satellite Key Pads

Easily navigate through complex graphic screens and give instructions for speech feedback without moving your hands to the computer keyboard. Especially when browsing the web, the Tab forward and Tab backward key are very powerful tool to navigate from link to link. You can switch the Windows and Speech Satellite Key Pads from left to right and vice versa.

Windows Satellite key pad assignment

Outer circle: Tab back, Tab forward

Inner circle: Item up, Item right, Item down, Item left

Speech Satellite key pad assignment

Outer circle: Change braille display mode, Read document

Inner circle: Read title, Read line, Read bottom, Read word

Double Touch Cursor

Activate ALVA Structured Mode (see other side of this information sheet) and simulate left mouse clicks.

With the first row of Double Touch Cursor switches above the status cells you can:

toggle spatial representation on/off
toggle attribute marking
toggle between text and attribute mode
toggle between 6 and 8 dot braille

With the second row of Double Touch Cursor switches above the status cells you can:

stop speech,
read text in a window or the whole document
have the selected text read aloud
mute speech synthesizer

ALVA Structured Mode

The ALVA Structured Mode is a Jaws function especially designed by ALVA to support Satellite and Delphi MultiMedia braille displays. The ALVA Structured Mode function can be used in JAWS Line Mode and allows you to ask for feedback through a speech synthesizer activated by a Double Touch Cursor switch. Just pressing a Double Touch Cursor switch in a dialog window will give you extra information. In the same way you can get information about items that cannot have the focus, like tool bar buttons or items in the status bar.

Status Cells

The status cells of the ALVA Satellite braille displays used together with Jaws for Windows show extra information about what's on the screen:

horizontal position of the active cursor,
active JAWS navigation mode,
display mode.

Extended front key assignment

UP: move to previous line

LEFT: move left one braille segment

RIGHT: move right one braille segment

DOWN: move to next line

HOME: move braille display to top of window

HOME + UP: move braille display to top of window

HOME + DOWN: move braille to bottom of window

CURSOR: route braille to position of active cursor

CURSOR + UP: open start menu

CURSOR + DOWN: minimize all windows

Jaws for Windows is a product of Henter-Joyce

Call (888) 285-9988 for more information.

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