[vip_students] Dolphin V12 demos now available.
- From: "\(NCBI\) Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:47:30 -0000
Hi All,
Here is some information about the newly renamed Dolphin 12 products which
are now available.
What's new?
What's New in this version of SuperNova Access Suite (formerly SuperNova)?
New in version 12 (released: 01/11/2010 14:58:11) Magnified applications
look stunning with Dolphin's new True Font Technology! Boost productivity
with fully featured multiple monitor support including Dolphin's unique
Mouse Buffer. Never lose the mouse pointer with new scalable pointer sizes.
SuperNova is more secure than ever with smarter video hooking.
Speech and Braille access to: Microsoft Office 2010, iTunes 10 and Adobe
Reader have received substantial performance and usability improvements. V12
also comes with updated documentation for using SuperNova with popular
Microsoft Office
2010 applications. Dolphin's commitment to Braille output and input
continues with new and updated Braille tables.
The new Dolphin Launch Pad offers convenient access to popular services:
podcasts, radio stations, News feeds, dictionary look-up and walking
directions.
All of this can be read with the new more responsive, Vocalizer Text To
Speech synthesiser from Nuance.
Never miss out on the latest fixes and improvements with new options for
automatically checking and downloading free SuperNova updates. If you have a
question for Dolphin's Product Support team, you can help us to help you by
taking advantage of the new Dolphin remote assistance application included
with SuperNova.
The version 12 DVD also contains
EasyReader
, our DAISY Player which reads ePub and a range of other popular electronic
book formats.
Let's look at version 12's new features in detail:
Choose the SuperNova edition for you!
The Dolphin range of screen readers and magnifiers have been renamed to be
more descriptive. Now, there are 4 product 'editions' in the SuperNova
family:
SuperNova Access Suite
SuperNova Screen Reader
SuperNova Magnifier
and
SuperNova Reader Magnifier
Access Suite features synchronised screen magnification and screen reading
in one product (formerly SuperNova).
Screen Reader delivers powerful multi-lingual speech and Braille features
(formerly Hal).
Magnifier enlarges and highlights text on screen (formerly Lunar) Reader
Magnifier includes all the features of SuperNova Magnifier. In addition,
SuperNova Reader Magnifier speaks text under the mouse pointer, and reads
documents (formerly LunarPlus).
Read
more details of the four SuperNova editions and compare their features True
Fonts true fonts' super smooth text Text onscreen appears smooth even at the
highest magnification levels!
Dolphin's new True Font Technology even supports non-standard aspect ratios,
and vertical or diagonal text! SuperNova now offers the following 3 options:
True Fonts - Brand new, high quality True Font smoothing at all
magnification levels.
Standard - Uses the classic image smoothing found in SuperNova v11 and
earlier.
None - Simply magnifies the original content.
Tip: You can repeatedly press LEFT CONTROL + NUMPAD8 (in the default desktop
hot key set) to cycle through the 3 font smoothing options. You can also
adjust this setting from the SuperNova Control Panel:
Visual>Advanced>Magnifier.
Note: True Fonts in SuperNova v12 are not currently supported in Adobe
Reader and Direct 2D applications (such as the public betas of Microsoft
Internet Explorer 9).
Multiple Monitor Support
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Gain increased productivity with true multitasking on the Windows Extended
Desktop by magnifying applications running on two or more monitors side by
side. For presentations, magnify notes on the first monitor, while showing
unmagnified slides to a fully sighted audience via a projector. Also use
Presentation Mode for training sighted colleagues with your chosen
applications.
Use SuperNova's Clone modes to enable trainees to see magnified or
unmagnified copies of the trainer's display where an extended desktop is not
available. Essential magnification features: Focus Highlighting, Colour
Schemes and Hooked Areas are all available to secondary monitors, as are all
existing Magnifier Views including Full Screen, Magnifying Glass and Split
Screen.
Tip: Choose your multiple monitor options from the SuperNova Control Panel,
Visual>Multiple Monitors.
Read more about the
different multiple monitor modes available with SuperNova Mouse Buffer
Whilst using the mouse to pan around a desktop extending across more than
one monitor, it is normal for the pointer to move from the current monitor
to the next when it reaches the edge of the screen. Dolphin's unique Mouse
Buffer feature prevents the pointer moving to another monitor
unintentionally. The Mouse Buffer creates a soft barrier between each
monitor. The Buffer Resistance slider can be used to control how much effort
is needed to push the mouse pointer on to the next monitor.
Custom Mouse Pointer Sizes
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The size of the magnified mouse pointer can now be set independent of the
magnification level. Fixed and relative sizes are available.
If a fixed custom mouse pointer size is chosen, e.g. 16, the mouse pointer
will remain 16 times its original size irrespective of the magnification
level. This prevents the mouse getting smaller and becoming lost at low
magnification levels. Similarly, a fixed size prevents the mouse pointer
becoming too large and obscuring text at higher magnification levels.
Relative values can also be chosen, to keep the mouse pointer at a practical
comparative size when changing the level of magnification, for example, you
could choose 150%, which would keep the mouse pointer at 150% of your
current magnification level.
Tip: Change the mouse pointer size from Visual>Mouse Pointers.
Smarter Video Hooking
To deliver True Fonts and Multiple Monitor support, the Dolphin Video Hook
has been completely reengineered for v12.
Dolphin's new less-invasive video hooking techniques offer a number of
important technical benefits welcomed by network administrators and security
professionals.
No system components are replaced during installation.
Upgrade your graphics driver without having to reinstall the Dolphin Video
hook.
Compatible with mirror drivers and most other modern magnification software.
No Windows Kernel security adjustments required.
Seamlessly switch to and from Terminal Server sessions.
Note: SuperNova v12 should not be installed alongside screen readers and
screen magnifiers released before 2003. For more information about which
products are incompatible, contact your dealer or Dolphin Product Support.
Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader is a free application for reading files in the popular Portable
Document Format (PDF). PDFs can contain text and images, and are designed to
preserve document appearance across different computing platforms. When
reading PDFs in Adobe Reader, Supernova version 12 fully respects the author
tags which can describe formatting and document structure. Supernova version
12 recognises:
Headings. Heading level 1 to 6. Use the number row to navigate by a
particular heading level.
Images. Read alternative text descriptions where available.
Lists and tables. Announces dimensions and position when navigating within
these structures.
Form field labels, control types and their states.
Note: similar to reading web pages, Supernova's support for PDFs can be
limited by the way in which the document has been produced. PDF
accessibility resources can be found on the Adobe website Microsoft Office
Support Office 2010 logo Dolphin has made various internal changes to
improve performance and reliability when using Microsoft Office 2010, 2007
and 2003.
Users of Microsoft Office 2007 should find Office 2010 familiar. Many of the
hotkeys found in Office 2003 remain available in Office 2010.
You can navigate and select text in your documents with standard Windows hot
keys. In addition, the Supernova Quick Navigation keys are available to jump
to the next and
previous: Bookmark, Button, Comment, Different paragraph style, Edit Field,
Note, Graphic, Heading style, List item, Link, Text frame, Normal style,
Object, Paragraph, Revision, List, Table and Section break.
When working in the Office 2010 Ribbon, you can use: LEFT and RIGHT arrows
to move between Ribbon tabs; CONTROL + ARROW keys to move between groups;
and TAB and SHIFT + TAB to navigate between items. Supernova will
automatically track and announce the focused item. While using the Ribbon,
press LEFT SHIFT + NUMPAD 0 to have Supernova announce additional
information about the focused item.
Read a
detailed list of all improvements to Microsoft Office Support iTunes 10
Support itunes logo iTunes is a popular media player created by Apple for
organising and playing audio and video files. You can use iTunes to
subscribe to podcasts and listen to radio stations, as well as synchronise
audio and video between your computer and mobile device.
Tip: Supernova magnifies, speaks and Brailles as you ARROW and TAB around
the iTunes application.
Tip: F6 switches between panes, and while playing a track LEFT SHIFT +
NUMPAD1 and LEFT
SHIFT + NUMPAD2 announces the time elapsed and time remaining respectively.
Tip: You can read information about the current track by pressing NUMPAD7.
Note: the iTunes Store is not supported by this release.
Launch Pad
Launch Pad allows you to quickly and easily launch a selection of: Radio
Stations, Podcasts and RSS News feeds. You can use Launch Pad to lookup the
dictionary definition of a word, find out the local weather forecast, search
for books, and find walking directions. Find out more about Launch Pad.
New Braille Tables
As well as supporting computer and literary Braille codes for output and
input in more than 20 native languages, SuperNova includes a range of
secondary foreign language tables for students. New in SuperNova version 12:
Foreign language tables for the USA including: French, German, Italian and
Spanish.
Foreign language Italian table for UK.
Other Braille changes in SuperNova version 12 include:
Added Polish Text to Braille and Braille to Text tables.
Fixed French grade 2 Braille to text table problem with numbers.
Retired 1992 tables for the UK (grades 1 & 2). Still available from Dolphin
on request.
Vocalizer TTS Support
Vocalizer is the latest generation of text to speech synthesis from Nuance
Communications. Many of the Vocalizer voices will sound familiar to existing
RealSpeak users. Vocalizer includes several performance and feature
enhancements not available to RealSpeak.
Responsiveness. Vocalizer is comparatively more responsive than the
equivalent RealSpeak voices. This is especially noticeable while typing with
Character Echo switched on.
Speed. Vocalizer supports a wider range of speed settings and can be set to
speak much quicker than RealSpeak.
Vocalizer continues to be highly intelligible at high speaking rates.
New sounds and pausing features. Vocalizer can use beeps for capital
announcements, toggled from
Speech>General Announcements. Plus, support for Phrase Pause, found on
Speech>the Voice Preferences>User Defined
Voices page.
New languages and voices. Chinese, Arabic and several new European voices
are now available with Vocalizer.
Silent check for updates
Dolphin regularly makes available free updates to SuperNova which can be
automatically downloaded from the Internet.
SuperNova version 12 can download these updates silently in the background
and alert you when they are ready to install.
Take control of how SuperNova should download updates by choosing one of the
following options from General>Update
Settings:
Do not check for updates. You can check manually any time using the "Check
for Updates." option from the Help menu.
Tell me when updates are available to download. This will advise when a new
update is available from Dolphin's servers.
Download automatically and tell me when updates are available to be
installed. Downloads the update silently in the background. Next time you
start SuperNova you will be asked if you wish to install the update now or
later.
Download and install updates automatically. Launches the installer for all
updates.
Control Panel Improvements
Based on feedback from Supernova version 11 customers, Dolphin has made the
following changes to the Supernova Control Panel.
New checkbox to simplify voice selection. Screen voices including: Edit Area
voice, Prompt Voice, Menu Voice, Read from Here Voice and Dolphin Cursor
Voice can be synchronised with the Screen Reader Voice by checking this
option.
You can change which voices are used from Speech>Voice Preferences>Voice and
Language dialog.
New Read from Here button. Mouse users can simply click the new Read From
Here Button, found on the Speech Page of the Supernova Control Panel, to
start continuous reading from the cursor to the end of the document. You can
stop Supernova from reading at any time by pressing LEFT CONTROL.
Change to Help button behaviour. Pressing the Help button now shows the same
options as available by pressing CAPS + F1.
New command line option to hide the Setup Wizard. The Wizard is recommended
for most users. However, some advanced users and network administrators may
prefer the Dolphin Setup wizard not run. You can suppress the wizard by
running snova.exe with the "-nowizard" command line argument.
New Documentation
The SuperNova v12 documentation includes new topics covering popular tasks
in Microsoft Office 2010 applications. Other topics recently updated
include: Office 2007 and Office 2003, Internet Explorer 8, Adobe Reader 9,
Mozilla Firefox 3, Skype and General Tips and Strategies.
Cheers,
Paul.
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