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Verbal View of the Office Ribbon Bar
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Verbal View of the Office Ribbon Bar(Formerly: Verbal View of Office 2007) (Continued) Purpose To teach blind students and adults how to use the new interface in Office 2007 and to rewrite the tutorials for the individual Office components. Project Staff Larry Skutchan, Project Leader Peter Duran, Project Consultant and Author Keith Creasy, Programmer John Hedges, Programmer Rodger Smith, Programmer Steve Mullins, Special Projects Manager Robert Conaghan, Studio Monitor Rosanne Hoffman, Editor
Microsoft completely redesigned the user interface for the series of programs in the Office suite. While each application is more consistent, the whole paradigm is new, and most blind computer users are not yet familiar with the new procedures and actions. APH already offers a tutorial for Microsoft Word, but the user interface is totally revamped for the 2007 edition. Rather than rewriting the existing Word tutorial (See Verbal View of Word and Verbal View of Word Advanced) project staff recognized that the better approach might be to write a tutorial that focuses on the new interface for the Office suite and cover the common components in that book. Such common components include the spell checker and grammar checker. Then, as sub-components, offer separate and new tutorials that focus on the unique aspects of Word, Excel, and Outlook. Taking this approach should lessen confusion by not including such varied material in one tutorial and lets the staff combine the Word and Advanced Word tutorials for the new Word tutorial. Work during FY 2009
Work Planned for FY 2010
Verbal View of Online Mail(Continued) Purpose To teach blind and visually impaired computer users effective use of e-mail. Project Staff Larry Skutchan, Project Leader Peter Duran, Project Consultant and Author Keith Creasy, Programmer John Hedges, Programmer Rodger Smith, Programmer Kathy Lewis, Technical Support Specialist Steve Mullins, Special Projects Manager Robert Conaghan, Studio Monitor
The only prerequisite to this tutorial, Verbal View of the Net and the Web, talks about the Net and the Web and describes the various ways to connect to the Net. Online mail―most commonly called Electronic Mail or E-mail for short―now ranks with telephone calls in popularity. This tutorial only discusses e-mail on the Net. (You are able to send and receive e-mail with mobile phones and other devices.) Usually, you rely on a word processor (like WordPad or Microsoft Word) to write, edit, format, and read ordinary documents. They are usually located on your computer. You must rely on a different kind of program to write, edit, format, and read as well as send and receive online mail. Typically, you rely on an e-mail program (alias e-mail client) to perform these tasks. Outlook express is the e-mail program that comes with Internet Explorer; this e-mail program is the most used at the present time on Windows XP. The program named just Outlook is the e-mail program that comes with Microsoft Office; this program extends the functionality of Outlook Express. Outlook Express and Outlook are different programs and Microsoft has two different support teams for them because they are substantially different. Both programs come with an Address Book in which you can enter information about persons, organizations, or businesses, called contacts. You must upgrade to Outlook 2003 (part of Microsoft Office) if you want a calendar and appointment book as well. (You can purchase Outlook 2003 as a separate program from Microsoft Corporation -- $109.00 on November 4, 2005.) Most developers of screen readers and screen magnifiers focus efforts on Internet Explorer and Outlook Express because Microsoft products currently dominate the Net and the Web. Today, virtually every newcomer to Windows XP receives and sends online mail via Outlook Express; therefore, this tutorial covers Outlook Express. Work completed in FY 2009 Made available for sale. Work planned for FY 2010 Updates will take place as needed. Verbal View of Vista(Continued) Purpose To provide a tool to teach the Vista operating system to blind computer users. Project Staff Larry Skutchan, Project Leader Peter Duran, Project Consultant and Author Keith Creasy, Programmer John Hedges, Programmer Rodger Smith, Programmer Rosanne Hoffmann, Research Assistant Steve Mullins, Special Projects Manager Robert Conaghan, Studio Monitor
The Verbal View series provides unprecedented instruction and detail about specific topics for blind computer users. With the release of Vista in February 2007, APH considers it important to provide pertinent training material on current technology. Vista contains thousands of changes and enhancements, and this tutorial covers them. Even since the release of XP, the PC hardware and usage models have changed. Serial ports, parallel ports, and floppy drives are no longer even shipped on new PCs. The emphasis has switched from work on the PC to work on the internet. Work during FY 2009
Work planned for FY 2010 The project is made available for sale. Verbal View of Web Documents(Continued) Purpose To teach blind and visually impaired computer users how to make effective use of their internet browser. Project Staff Larry Skutchan, Project Leader Peter Duran, Project Consultant and Author Keith Creasy, Programmer John Hedges, Programmer Rodger Smith, Programmer Kathy Lewis, Technical Support Specialist Steve Mullins, Special Projects Manager Robert Conaghan, Studio Monitor
The prerequisite to this tutorial, Verbal View of the Net and the Web, talks about the Net and the Web and describes the various ways to connect to the Net. This tutorial focuses on the Web, now the most useful and influential part of the Net. Web, short for the World Wide Web, consists of hypertext documents (alias web pages) linked together in a "web" of interconnected documents. Usually, you rely on a word processor (like WordPad or Microsoft Word) to write, edit, format, and read ordinary documents. They are usually located on your computer. You learn later that ordinary documents and other types of documents are also available on the Web and that you can retrieve (download) them and store them on your computer. You must rely on a different kind of program to retrieve, display, and read web documents. Typically, you rely on a web browser to perform these tasks. Internet Explorer is the web browser that comes with Microsoft Windows XP; this web browser is the most used at the present time. (Even customers of America Online rely on Internet Explorer although AOL owns Netscape Navigator, a rival web browser.) A companion program―Outlook express―is the e-mail program that comes with Internet Explorer. This e-mail program receives its just due in Verbal View of Online Mail. A web browser (like Internet Explorer from Microsoft or Mozilla from Firefox) lets you retrieve and read web documents (alias web pages) stored on the Net or on your computer. You don't write, edit, or format web pages with a web browser! You just retrieve them and read them. However, you can save web pages on your computer in three different ways: as complete web pages to read with a web browser; as html documents to read and edit with Microsoft Word; or as text documents to read and edit with NotePad. Most developers of screen readers focus efforts on Windows XP and Internet Explorer because Microsoft products currently dominate the Net and the Web. Today, virtually every blind user surfs the Web with Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Therefore, this tutorial covers Internet Explorer. You can use the keyboard or the mouse in every part of Internet Explorer. In particular, complete keyboard support is provided on web pages, on the Active Desktop, and throughout the help system. Work during FY 2009 This project was made available for sale. Work planned for FY 2010 The material will be updated as needed. Yüklə 1,48 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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