Accessible Software and
Window-Eyes 5 Sets

All of the set files are in self-extracting .exe files. I created them with Winzip so they will default to unzipping the sets into c:\wineyes\users\default. If you did not install Window-Eyes into the default folder, you will want to edit the folder path accordingly.

Accupos Point of Sale software for Window-Eyes 5

A friend, Michael Huckaby, is using Accupos Point of Sale software from Attitude Positive in his business. He asked me to write set files for it, so I am putting them up here for anyone else who is using this Point of Sale software, or interested in trying it. You can down load a trial from the attitude Positive web site:
www.attitudepositive.com
Remember, these sets are for Window-Eyes 5. I wrote them with the first beta. You can down load the self-extracting zip file of my sets including the readme file here: accupos-we5sets.exe
Here is the readme file: accupos-readme.txt
Please do not ask me anything about the software. I only know enough about it to get the sets reading the stuff that is necessary. If you have questions about the program, Attitude Positive support is very good.
If you want some great coffee, check out Michael's business: www.minnacoffee.com

Eudora 6

I did some slight modifications to the Window-Eyes default sets for Eudora 6. You can read my changes at the link to the readme file below. To down load my sets in their self-extracting exe file, click on this link: eudora-we5sets.exe, (last updated July 10, 2004)

To read the included readme file, click here:Eudora-readme.txt

GoldWave

The best sound file editor for blind computer users in my opinion is GoldWave. It works tremendously well with Window-Eyes, and the author has built in lots of keyboard commands where other sound editors rely heavily on mouse clicks. You can check it out at:GoldWave

GoldWave 5.x is the latest release. Check often for updates. Here are my set files for Window-Eyes 5.5 and GoldWave 5.x, gw5we55sets.exe (Last updated April 17, 2006
Here are my sets for Window-Eyes 5 and GoldWave5:goldwave5we5sets.exe (updated April 2005)When you unzip the set files into your c:\wineyes\users\default folder, goldwave.we will be over written, but do not worry about this. GoldWave 4 sets and GoldWave 5 sets share the same goldwave.we file. The GoldWave 5 sets are associated with different window classes, so there won't be any conflict with GoldWave 4.
gw5we5.5.txt, text file for the Window-Eyes 5.5 sets
gw5we5.txt, text file for the Window-Eyes 5 sets.

If you would like to down load my latest Window-Eyes set files for GoldWave 4.x, click here: goldwave-we5.exe GoldWave set files (updated March 20, 2003)
goldwave.txt the goldwave readme file

Here is a tip from Jim Kitchen, who got it from David Greenwood on using GoldWave to clean up sounds. (It works with any supported format.).

To make really clear sounds after recording your sound file, do the following:
1. In GoldWave, load your test sound, for simplicity make it a small phrase or a one word sound.
2. set the start and end points to enclose a small piece of the file where there is only the background noise you wish to eliminate, and then hit control+c to copy it to the GoldWave buffer. Now you have a sample of the background noise.
3. Hit control+a to select the entire sound again.
4. From the effects menu, select filter, and then Noise reduction.
5. Then select Remove Hiss and Tab over to the Reduction envelope and then select "Using clipboard." Then select OK, and you will have a noise free recording.

Here are two samples to illustrate the above suggestion. of how to clean up a sound file with goldwave.
before.wma before removing the tape hiss
after.wma after removing the tape hiss

GroupWise 6.0.1 and GroupWise 6.5.x set files

At my work place they use GroupWise for E-mail--I decided that it was time to figure out some Window-Eyes sets for it. So, here are my sets so far. I have the spell checker working well and hot keys for replying or forwarding a message. Be sure and read the readme file included in the sets. You can also read it on line by following the link below the set file link.

groupwise6.5we5sets.exe, GroupWise 6.5.X set files (last update July 15, 2005)
groupwise-readme-we5.txt GroupWise 6.5.x readme file

groupwise-we5.exe, GroupWise 6.0.1 sets last updated October 10, 2003
groupwise-readme.txt, readme file for the GroupWise 6.0.1 sets

Overdrive Media Console set files for Window-Eyes 5

I have gotten involved in the new Unabridged Audio books project through several state Regional Libraries for the Blind... I created some simple sets to help my experience of the Overdrive Media Console and Explorer. I offer them here to any other Window-Eyes 5 Beta users.

I have not done a readme file for these sets as yet. When you are listening to a book, alt+1 will read the time at which you are in the book. Alt+2 will read the total time of the part you are listening to. Alt+3 will read the part name and length that you are currently listening to which is highlighted in the list of parts.
When you are down loading a title, alt+8 will read the percentage of the part that has down loaded. Alt+9 will read the name of the book and the part and the percentage of it that has down loaded. I set a hyperactive window to read window #9 when that part has reached 95 percent down loaded.
Again, these sets were written with Window-Eyes 5 beta1. The file names are: MEDIACON.we, MEDIACON.000, and MEDIACON.001: overdrive-we5sets.exe

HTML VALIDATOR

HTML Validator is a great program for validating your HTML code. Even better news, the combination of the latest version of HTML Validator 7.0 and Window-Eyes 5; what were previously inaccessible menus are now totally accessible! Below, you can down load my newest set files for HTML Validator 7.0.

cse70we5sets.exe HTML-Validator 7.0 set files (updated July, 2005)
cse7we5readme.txt the readme file for Window-Eyes sets.
If you want to try the program out on-line, go to:www.htmlvalidator.com and enter the URL of the web site you wish to validate and see how it works. You can also down load the free version from that site.

If you are doing a lot of web page design, I would highly recommend the Professional version. It does far more than the free version. You can read all about it on their web site, (use the link above).

WordPerfect 10 set files

wp10we5sets.exe Window-Eyes 5 WordPerfect sets (last updated July 17, 2005.
I modified the WordPerfect 9 sets so they work with WordPerfect 10. I made a couple changes and one addition, which is detailed in the wp10readme-we5.txt readme file for Window-Eyes 5 WordPerfect sets (last updated July 17, 2005.)

In order to print in colors, you will want the RGB color values. I have it in a WordPerfect table. It is contained in rgb-color.zip, which when unzipped will be rgb-color.wpd. You can get the zip file here: rgb-color.zip
You can also view it as a table here on my web site at: rgb-color.htm

Window-Eyes 5 manual

GW Micro has made the entire Window-Eyes 5 manual available in either an html document or a txt document on their web site. You access the manual in your preferred method, go to: GW Micro products page and look for the links to the manual.

Triple Talk Speech Synthesizer

If you want an excellent speech synthesizer that works with all Windows versions, I would recommend the Triple Talk by Access Solutions. It sounds much the same as the Double Talk, but it will work in Windows XP, which the Double Talk won't.
You can read all about it and get the most recent drivers at:Access Solutions