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SECTION 4.0 SHORT INSTRUCTIONS
This section covers Flipper's basic functions. Learning these
aspects of Flipper will enable you to use most computer programs.
Additional sections will explain advanced features which will
allow you to use your computer more efficiently, and work with
more complicated programs.
In programs which allow you to move around the screen with the
arrow keys, Flipper will read off the material that you are
moving over. For example, if you move a character at a time
to the right or left, Flipper will read the character that you
are moving over. If you move a line at a time up or down, Flipper
will read the lines. You can move to the right or left
a word at a time by holding down the control key and pressing
the left or right arrow keys, and Flipper will read the words.
You can hold down alt while pressing down the
right or left arrow keys and Flipper will move one sentence
forwards or backwards, and read the corresponding sentence.
Flipper will do things like beep when you get close to the
end of the line, and tell you when the caps lock is on. You can
always stop Flipper by pressing the space bar while holding down
the alt key. If you are ever uncertain about what is happening
with Flipper, you can just press alt space bar and try again.
Alt space bar always gets you out!
Quick keyboard commands. The quick commands are used by
holding down the alt key with your left hand and pressing one of
the keys near the right hand home row. The alt key is the key
to the left of the space bar. The keys on the right hand home
position, j, k, and l, will read the word to the left of the
cursor, the word under the cursor, and the word to the right of
the cursor, respectively. The keys below them, m, comma, and
period, respectively, will spell the same words. The keys above
the right hand home row, u, i, and o, will read the line above
the current line, the current line, and the line below the
current line, respectively. Note that these keys form a nice
little block on the keyboard on the right hand home row. The
middle key reads the current item, the right key reads the next,
and the left key reads the last. The top keys, u, i, and o,
refer to lines, the next row to words, and the bottom row refers
to characters.
Holding down the alt key and pressing slash will announce the
position of the cursor. Alt semicolon will start the review
mode which will be discussed shortly. Alt h will start the
help mode. Alt p will read the page meaning the whole screen.
Alt y will read the line before last. Alt n will let you use
these keys with another program. Alt space bar will stop any
mode and silence the voice.
Flipper's review mode is started by pressing alt semicolon.
After you start the review mode, you can move around the screen
at any time using the following keystrokes and have various
parts of it read to you. If you hold down control while pressing
a letter key, the function of that key is announced.
There are a set of keys which are related to the quick keys in
the regular mode. j, k, and l read the previous, current, or
next word. The difference between using the review mode and the
quick keys is that you also move to the corresponding place.
For example, if you continue to press the l key in the review
mode, you will advance a word at a time, reading out each word.
Similarly, the u, i, and o keys will take you to the last line,
read the current line, and take you to the next line. The m,
comma, and period keys do the same one character at a time.
Additionally, there are keys in the review mode which do
functions which are unique to the review mode. For example, the
t key will announce the time of day. The b key will take you
back to where you were the last time you were in the review
mode. The c key will take you out of the review mode as well as
the usual alt space bar. The c key, however, will move the
cursor to where you have moved in the review mode.
You will probably want to customize the way Flipper does some
things. Many of these can be changed by pressing the function
keys during the review mode, and others are changed by holding
down alt and pressing function keys, also during the review
mode. All of them alternate on and off, so the best way to use
them is not to memorize where they are, but to just try them
until you find the one you want.
Flipper has many other ways to help you productively use your
computer. After you are familiar with these basic instructions,
you should read the complete instructions.
END OF SHORT INSTRUCTIONS.