Day 77: Experimenting with Window-Eyes

Published on 15 Feb 2019

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Window-Eyes is a screen reader that appears to have fallen out of the mainstream use. According to WebAIM's latest Screen Reader Survey, 1.5% of their respondents reported that they use Window-Eyes. I experimented with it because it was listed as an example of an assistive technology to experiment and test out.

• Watched Getting Started with Window-Eyes for Office (YouTube).
• Installed Window-Eyes for Office and practiced using it.
• Reviewed Deque's Window-Eyes cheatsheet.
• Added keystrokes to my comparison spreadsheet.
• Glanced over other Window-Eyes tutorials.

• Window-Eyes works best with Internet Explorer.
• Window-Eyes was folded into the AI Squared family, and there are instructions on how to migrate from Window-Eyes to JAWS (mp3).
• Window-Eyes is free to download if you have a registered copy of Microsoft Office.
• Most keystrokes are similar to other Windows screen readers, but uses Control or Insert keys as modifier keys.