Using a USB Mouse or Joystick with Accent
An Access Method is the method you use to control your device—touch, switch, etc.
You select an access method, then you customize that method for your personal use by selecting the options you want.
Most Standard USB Mouse and Joysticks should work with the Accent. Make sure you keep any receipts from your new purchase until after trying your new accessory with the Accent.
Settting up the device to use with an USB Mouse or Joystick:
1. Go to Toolbox to Access Method menu.
2. Select Choose Different Access Method
3. Now choose Headpointing/Joystick option then Mouse/Trackball/USBJoystick 
4. Change settings to allow the USB Mouse or Joystick to work best for you.
Below is a descriptions of the settings you can adjust in the Access Method Menu:
This is the amount of time it takes for your device to accept a location you have selected and to select the key. The device beeps when your key is accepted. For example, if you set acceptance time for .50 seconds, you must touch the key or hold your switch for ½ second before the key will be selected and the device beeps.
Note: if you are using a 1 switch scanning method that includes hold, the acceptance time will begin when you release your switch.
Horizontal and Vertical Adjustment
If you are having trouble reaching the right or left edges, increase the “Horizontal” adjustment number. If you had trouble reaching the top or bottom edges increase the “Vertical” adjustment number.
If just the slightest head movement to the left or right moved you off the edges of the screen, decrease the “Horizontal” number. If the slightest head movement up or down moved you off the top and bottom edges, decrease the “Vertical” number.
If you had trouble positioning the cursor in the corners of the screen, increase both the “Horizontal” and “Vertical” adjustment numbers.
If you make large head movements you may lose the cursor easily. Try decreasing the “Horizontal” and/or “Vertical” adjustment numbers. If you make small head movements, try increasing the “Horizontal” and “Vertical” adjustment numbers.
This lets you choose how fast a key will repeat itself when you hold it down.
Manual means you must activate a separate switch to make a selection.
Auto means that when your Acceptance Time has passed, your device will automatically make your selection for you.
When Predictive Selection is On, keys that do not produce messages are turned off. If you touch or scan to them, nothing will happen. Only keys that contain or are part of actual stored messages will work.
This allows you to select or create a color for the headpointing pointer.
This allows you to choose the size of the pointer.
Averaging helps you to cut down on accidental key activations caused by involuntary head movements. The number you select tells your device how far you must move out of one key location before a second key is selected. This generally means that when you cross the centerline between one key and the next key, the first key will become un-highlighted and the second key will light up.
If you select an averaging number higher than “1” you are telling the headpointer signal to “lag behind” any head movements you make. The higher the number you choose, the further into the next key’s area you must move before the second key will become highlighted
This tells your device to place a red border around the key that you point to. This may help to make the selected key easier to see.
Activate Text Area
Default is ON. When OFF the Text Bar at the top of the display will not respond or speak text.
Magnify Windows Clicks
Magnification Factor
Magnification Area
TIP: Magnification is available with PRC devices that have an internal computer. This feature will work when you are in a Windows application.
Magnify Window Clicks ON
This means you can select an area in your Windows application and it will appear in a magnified box. This makes it easier for you to select the options you want in your application.
Magnification Factor
This allows you to set how you want an area to be magnified—2 times larger (2X) 4 times larger (4X).
Magnification Area (in number of pixels)
This allows you to select the size of the area you are magnifying.
We recommend that you select different numbers for Factor and Area and try them out in an application on your device. You'll then have a good idea of what works for you.
There is a 2-click rhythm for using Magnification
Click on (or select with your Access Method) the option or menu you want.
Click it again to open or select it.
Click on the option or menu you want.
Click it again to open it.
Continue in this manner until you have performed the action you want.