Instructions: Help
The Help system makes looking up what you need to know a breeze. When you need
help, press the Help key. The unit opens the manual to the section relevant to the
application in use and starts reading the instructions. Use this key often to learn how to
use each application.
While reading the documentation, or any other document, you may control how and what
you read.
Document Navigation
Each time you read a document, you may navigate with the arrows, start and stop
reading, and, where supported, go to the table of contents.
Start Reading: Select
To begin reading, press Select. The unit starts reading and continues to read until you
stop.
Quick Previous and Next Paragraph
While using the continuous reading mode, you may use Left Arrow and Right Arrow as a
shortcut means of moving quickly to the previous or next paragraph.
Stop Reading: Select
To stop reading, press Select. The document reader stops immediately and leaves your
cursor on the last word you heard.
Move Line by Line: Up and Down Arrow
To move from line to line in a document, use the up and down arrows. Each time you
press one of these keys, the unit responds by moving to the line in that direction, then
reading that line. If you're already at the beginning or end of the document or a section of
the document, it beeps to let you know there is no where else to go in that direction.
Letter by Letter: Left and Right Arrow
To move letter by letter, press left or right arrow. With each key press, The document
reader responds by moving to the letter in the indicated direction and announcing that
letter. If the letter is capitalized, the document reader indicates the case of the letter by
raising the pitch of its pronunciation.
Word by Word: Ctrl+Left and Right Arrow
To move word by word through a document, press Ctrl+left or right arrow. The document
reader moves to the next word in the indicated direction and says the word. Remember
that you may use the telephone dial pad 0 as the control key to hold in conjunction with
one of the arrow buttons.
Move by Paragraphs: Ctrl+Up and Down Arrow
To move from paragraph to paragraph, press Ctrl+up or down arrow. The document
reader moves to the new paragraph and reads it.
Next and Previous Page: Page Down and Page Up
To move to the next or previous page, press Page Down or Page Up. The document
reader moves to the next page where known or estimated when there is no page
information, then reads the new page. To press a Page Up or Page Down on the telephone
keypad, hold Pound while pressing up or down arrow.
Go to the Beginning or End: Ctrl+Home and End
To move directly to the beginning or end of a document, press Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End.
Hold Up Arrow or Down Arrow on the keypad. In Braille, use 1-2-3 Chord and 4-5-6
Chord. The document reader moves in the indicated direction then reads the line at the
new cursor location.
Start and End of Line: Home and End
To move the cursor to the beginning or end of the line, press Home or End. On the
keypad, hold Left Arrow or Right arrow. In Braille, use P Chord and TH Chord. On the
telephone keypad, hold left or right arrow for Home and End. The document reader
moves to the indicated location and says the word at the beginning or end of the line. If
using this command in a single word prompt or when the cursor is already inside the
word, it announces the letter instead of the entire word.
Go to Contents: Hold Menu
Many documents, especially Daisy books, contain a table of contents.
To move to the table of contents for a document, hold the program menu key or pick
Document Navigation from the Edit menu. The document reader responds by opening a
menu and announcing the name of the section in which you are currently positioned.
Explore Contents: Up and Down Arrow
To move from item to item in the table of contents, press up and down arrow. It responds
by moving to the previous or next section then announces the name of the section and, if
there are any, the number of sub-sections in that section.
Open and Close Section: Right and Left Arrow
To open a section, press Right Arrow. To close a section in the contents, press Left
Arrow.
Read Section: Select
To read the section to which you point, press Select. The document reader moves to that
section and starts reading.
Cancel Contents
To return to the place in the document where you were when you opened the table of
contents, press Cancel. The document reader responds, "Navigation Canceled," and
leaves you ready to continue reading at your current position.
Select Link: Hold OK
Links are words or phrases in the document that may lead you to further information
about the word or phrase. This documentation, for example, contains links that point to
this section of the manual in places where it explains how to read and navigate through
documents.
The document reader indicates a link by making a sound as it reads the text of the link.
To go to the target of the link, hold OK.
When you open a link, the document reader opens the web browser when that link is
external. It is for this reason that if you plan to follow many links, you may reduce the
time it takes by leaving the browser open and simply switching back to the original
document.
Note that if the link refers to another place in the original document, the document simply
moves to that target without actually opening the browser.
Reading Keypad
The numeric keys on the telephone keypad are sometimes used for typing text. There are,
however, several kinds of documents that you may not modify.
When a document cannot be modified, such as when reading an email, a book in the
bookshelf, or a story in the RSS reader, you may use the telephone keypad to navigate to
different parts of the document. You may also use the Reading Keypad while in
continuous reading mode weather or not the document is read only.
Sometimes, you may also wish to use the reading keypad even if you are allowed to
modify the document. In the case where you wish to use the reading keypad on an
editable document, such as in the word processor, press Ctrl+E to turn on the Read Only
flag for that document. Remember, though, that you must press Ctrl+E once again before
you may make any changes to the document.
When the Reading Keypad is enabled, you may use keys on the telephone style buttons to
navigate and obtain information about the current document.
Back and Next Word: 1 and 3
When the continuous reading mode is not in use, you may use 1 and 3 to quickly move
from word to word in a document. If the current document contains audio material, these
keys move by 10 second segments.
Current Word: 2
In addition to 1 and 3 to move by words, you may use 2 to repeat the current word. Press
2 twice quickly to spell the current word.
Back and Next Paragraph: 1 and 3 While Reading
To move to the previous or next paragraph while reading, use 1 and 3.
Back and Next Page: 4 and 6
To move to the previous or next page of a document, press 4 or 6. The document reader
responds by moving to the new position in the document. If you had been reading when
you pressed the command key, reading resumes at the new location.
Navigate Heading Levels
Many documents, especially well constructed Digital Talking Books, contain several
levels of content.
To see a list of the kinds of navigation possibilities a document offers, press 8 repeatedly.
Bookshelf responds by moving to the next navigation type among all the possibilities for
that book then announces the new level. Levels might contain items like Level 1, Level 2,
Paragraph, Bookmark.
To move to the next navigation point of the selected type, use the 7 and 9 keys. 7 moves
back, and 9 moves to the next one.
Set Bookmark: Hold 8
To set a bookmark at the current position, hold 8. Bookshelf responds, "Bookmark Set"
and places a marker in the text that is easy to return to.
To move from mark to mark, select Bookmark as the navigation type by pressing 8 until
Bookshelf responds, "Bookmark," then use 7 and 9 to navigate back and forward through
all the marks in that document. Bookshelf responds by moving to the mark and
announcing either the time, percentage, or a line of text from a text-based document.
Clear Bookmark
To clear a bookmark, pause the player, move to the bookmark, then hold 8. Bookshelf
responds, "Bookmark Cleared," and removes the bookmark.
Binary Movement: Hold 1 and 3
The binary navigation system lets you quickly find a particular portion of a document, no
matter how large that document. Here is how it works:
When you hold 3, the document reader moves your reading position to a place half way
between where you are and the right-hand boundary of the document. The document
reader then announces the new percentage value of where you are in the document. The
first time you use the command, the right boundary is the end of the book, so holding 3
moves you to a place half way between where you are and the end of the book. Now, the
left boundary is the original position, and the right boundary is the end of the book. You
may narrow in on a position by moving either back or forward to a new half way position
each time you use one of the commands.
An example helps illustrate how the command works. If you start this sequence of moves
while at the beginning of the book, holding 3 the first time moves between the beginning
and the end of the book, so you move to the middle, and document reader announces,
"50%." Now, you could either move to 25% of the document by holding 1, or you could
move to 75% by holding 3. If you had moved to 25%, you could then either move to 12%
by holding 1 or to 37% by holding 3. Each time you move, the new position is a new
boundary, and you keep narrowing in on the place you desire.
Pressing a key other than one of the binary move commands resets the boundaries.
Back and Next Link: Star and Pound
When a document contains links, you may move from link to link by pressing the Star or
Pound key.
Find Text: Ctrl+F
To find text, press Ctrl+F or select Find from the Edit menu. The unit responds with the
Find Form where you decide how the find command should work. This form asks for the
text to find, whether or not it should start from the beginning of the document, and
whether or not the search should be case sensitive.
Search String
Type the text to find.
From Cursor
The From Cursor question in the Find Form lets you decide if the search should start
from the beginning of the document or from the cursor position. Press Select to toggle
between Yes and No. Select Yes to continue searches. Select No to start the search from
the beginning of the document.
Match Case
Sometimes, you may wish to make your searches more restrictive by requiring the case of
the letters in the text to match the case of the letters in your search term. Press Select to
toggle between Yes and No to answer this question.
Start Search: OK
To start the search, press OK. It responds with either Text Found, in which case, it moves
your cursor to that text, or "Not Found," in which case, it does not change your position
in the document.
Find Next: Shift+Ctrl+F
To find the second and subsequent occurrences of some text for which you searched, use
the Find Next command or pick Find Next from the Edit menu. The unit responds by
immediately repeating the search. If the word processor finds the text, it responds,
"Found" and moves the cursor to that occurrence of the desired text. If it does not find
any further occurrences, it says, "Not Found" and leaves the cursor at its original
position.
Select Text
When reading or writing a document, you may mark sections of that text. Once marked, a
selection of text may be copied, moved, or deleted. When copying text, the device uses a
clipboard, so you may copy and paste text from one application to another, or you may
copy some text and paste it into a search string.
The document reader considers a section of text as selected when you place a selection
mark in the text and move the cursor. The text between that selection mark and the cursor
is the selected text.
Mark: Alt+M
To start a selection, move to the place in the document of interest, then pick Set Selection
Mark from the Edit menu or press Alt+M. It marks the spot and responds, "Mark Set."
Copy Selected Text
To put a copy of the selected text onto the clipboard, pick Copy Selection from the Edit
menu.
Clear Selection
To clear a mark you previously set, pick Clear Selection from the Edit menu.
Select All
To select all the text in a document, pick Select All from the Edit menu. This may be a
convenient way to copy an entire document to an email or to another document.
Bookmarks
Bookshelf supports unlimited bookmarks. You use bookmarks to mark important places
in a document.
To set a bookmark, hold 8 on the telephone keypad.
To move to a bookmark, press 8 until Bookshelf responds, "Bookmark," then use 7 to
move to previous bookmarks and 9 to move forward through the list of bookmarks.
To delete a bookmark, move to the bookmark, then select Delete Bookmark from the Edit
menu.
Close: Cancel
To close the document, press Cancel. The device responds by closing the document,
returning to the previous activity, and announcing the status of that activity.
Key Equivalents
This brief chart shows the keys for various input types of the most common navigation
commands. Consult the Type Text section of the user's guide for the complete key codes.
Function
Qwerty
Phone
Move to previous or
next letter
Move to previous or
next line
Move to previous
and next word
Move to start or end
of line
Move to previous or
next paragraph
Left and Right
Arrow
Up and Down
Arrow
Ctrl+Left and
Right Arrow
Left and
Right
Up and
Down
0+Left and
Right
Hold Left
and Right
0+Up and
Down
Home and End
Ctrl+Up and
Down Arrow
Move to previous or Page Up and
next page
Page Down
Move to Start or
End of Document
Ctrl+Home and
End
Phone
Braille
Left and
Right
Up and
Down
0+Left and
Right
Hold Left
and Right
0+Up and
Down
Braille
Dot 3 Chord and Dot 6
Chord
Dot 1 Chord and Dot 4
Chord
Dot 2 Chord and Dot 5
Chord
P Chord and Dots 1-45-6 Chord
Dots 2-3 Chord and
Dots 5-6 Chord
Dots 1-2-3-4-5 Chord
#+Up and
Star+6 and
and Dots 2-3-4-5-6
#+Down
Star+9
Chord
Hold Up and Hold Up
Dots 1-2-3 Chord and
Down
and Down Dots 4-5-6 Chord