Thanks Shawn, this info here alone will help!
Brice KF6TBK
----- Original Message -----
From: "shawn klein" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: echo link help file


> Nothing I know of blind specific, but there's lots of
> info in the help file. First of all you need to make
> sure that you're set to work in explorer view. That
> means picking explorer view, if you'ree using window
> eyes, you can find explorer view with the mouse
> pointer, or Jaws cursor if you're using Jaws I think,
> but then you need to hit alt+p for preferences. Tab
> through all the stuff there and uncheck all the boxes
> that say show in index view. You don't want that
> coming back, because screen-readers don't work well in
> index view. Then you should be able to navigate with
> no problem. You just go where you want in the tree
> views, then tab to get the station list in the list
> view. Then you can hit enter on a station you want to
> connect. You'll hear a boop beep that tells you you're
> connected. a beep boop tells you you've been
> disconnected. F6 will take you around the 4 windows in
> a circular fashion, 1 of which tells you who you're
> connected to, or you can just read it with the mouse.
> I just go to the bottom left and navigate up till I
> see the station connected. Another window in the 4
> says edit box s send, that's where you can type text
> messages, then tab to send them. You'll transmit with
> the space bar unless you want to change that. You'll
> probably want to set it for momentary, so it acts like
> a push to talk instead of a toggle. The help files
> tell you how to do these things. There's also a hot
> keys section of the help files. To get you started,
> control O gives you an edit box to enter a call sign
> to connect to, hit tab in that and you can enter a
> node number instead, like 9999 for the test server
> where you can transmit a test and it plays it back to
> you. Control +d disconnects. I think if you just surf
> the help files they'll tell you quite a lot. If I've
> gotten you confused, let me know and I'll try to clear
> it up a bit. Whistles? don't know about that 1,
> there's signals, the sounds you hear when stations
> connect, disconnect, send text to you, you're alarms
> change, and the time out timer warning. I won't
> confuse you with that just now.
> 73 de kb7clx
>
> --- Brice Mijares <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Is there a help file out there which would describe
> > how echo link works for
> > the blind?  I don't know how I'd know when someone
> > is trying to make contact
> > Brice Mijares, KF6TBK Riverbank California.
>
>
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