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IBM contributorBing BJ Yin
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Introduction of speaker notes in presentation

Presentation speaker notes (at the bottom of the Normal view) is a new UI feature in Symphony 3.0.1. Which will help users to read or edit notes content easily. Users will have a better experience than ever. Users can do almost all of the text editing operations in speaker notes area like what ...

Enable accessibility in Symphony

Open the Symphony Preferences panel from FilePreferences... and make sure that the check box named "Support assistive technology tools " is checked. If not check, please check it and restart Symphony. Start an AT tool which support IAccessible2 such as JAWS, NVDA (They also can be started before ...

Community articleEnable accessibility in Symphony

Added by IBM contributor Bing BJ Yin | Edited by IBM contributor Bing BJ Yin on November 19, 2010 | Version 2
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Tags: accessibility, JAWS, NVDA, AT tools, screen reader
Open the Symphony Preferences panel from File->Preferences... and make sure that the check box named "Support assistive technology tools " is checked. If not check, please check it and restart Symphony.



Start an AT tool which support IAccessible2 such as JAWS, NVDA (They also can be started before Symphony). For example:



Now the AT tools can read UI and document content from Symphony application. You can operate Symphony by listen to the AT tools.

If you want to disable accessibility feature in Symphony, make sure the check box is unchecked.

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