Window-Eyes is a program to aid the visually impaired to work with a computer.
This program will read the screen content and anything that you select with the pointer of your mouse, and then will speak in a loud voice, reading the title of a window, the text in a document, or giving you a description of available commands. It will also tell the operator about system messages appearing on the screen. You can configure what to hear through the Settings panel. You can also tell the program to redirect the speech (aimed by default to your sound card and speakers) to several compatible speech devices. Window-Eyes also supports to display what it reads through Braille displays.
The Window-Eyes demo is fully functional except for one item: it will not read the commands in the menu bars. You can use this evaluation version without charge but you will not be able to use it for more than thirty minutes each time. You will need to reboot your computer, and then the program will let you use it again for another thirty minutes.
v8.3.0 [Sep 12, 2013]
- It is now compatible with all Intel-based editions of the Windows 8.1 operating system.
- Window-Eyes 8.3 now supports Internet Explorer 11.
- Window-Eyes would sometimes crash when unselecting text in Java edit controls. This has been corrected.
- End-of-line characters were being identified as "Unicode 0." Window-Eyes now dings when moving past line boundaries as it does in other edit control types.
- The Mouse to Focus command (Insert-Numpad-Plus by default) now works if a cursor is present.
- The Unicode/Attribute hot key (Control-Numpad-Delete by default) now works when a cursor is present.
- The Highlighted Block command (Control-Shift-M by default) now works when a cursor is present.
- Read-To-End (Control-Shift-R by default) now works in controls with a cursor.
- Window-Eyes now reads as you navigate through spreadsheets in OpenOffice and LibreOffice Calc.
- Leaving and then returning to OpenOffice and LibreOffice Writer could cause extra speech every time a key was pressed. This has been fixed.
- Window-Eyes would say "edit box" when traversing multi-line edit controls in OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer. This has been fixed.
- It would not read the rules in the rules list as you navigated it with the Arrow keys. This has been fixed.
- The conversation view in Outlook 2013 now speaks correctly.
- It is now compatible with the 64-bit edition of PowerPoint.
