Getting to Know the Modify Scan Pattern Options.
Modify Scan Pattern Menu
You can customize a page scan a couple of different ways. 1. When in your page, select the Toolbox key then Set-Up key, then select any key. Now select the Modify Scan Pattern. or 2. you can activate the ACCESS METHOD MENU then Modify Scan Patterns
From there you select the kind of scan you want to make (Core, Default, Page).
If you select the Modify Page Scan Pattern option, you will be asked to pick the Page you want.
The Use Default Scan Everywhere option allows you to set all Pages and your CORE to the same pattern. You can use the pre-set default scan or you can modify the default scan to your own liking and then use it everywhere.
Other Scan Pattern Menu Options
Copy Pattern From Another Page
Another way of setting up a scan pattern is to use the Copy Pattern From Another Page key. This lets you use a specific pattern over and over again, based on the pattern used from a pre-designed layout.
Scan Pattern Order
Another way to modify the scan pattern is to set the order in which the keys, text area, and word prediction window are scanned.
Select the order with the three toggle keys, Scan Keys, Scan Word Pred. List and Scan Text Area and Scan User Keys.
The settings are interdependent so if you change Scan Keys to FOURTH, the Scan User Keys setting would change to FIRST.
Note: Scan User Keys, when activated, means the unit will scan the Toolbox key on the top of the Accent.
In the default settings, the scan will highlight the Core and Activity keys first, stepping through each assigned block; then it highlights the word prediction window and, if activated, scans through the word list; next it highlights the text window, which speaks any text if selected. Last, it will scan the User Defined keys on the front of your device.
Add Scan Block(s)
One of the more powerful uses of customizable block scanning is with scenes. Because each scene is likely to contain different key elements in a variety of positions, you might want to scan each specific element rather than use a regular row/column approach.
For example, in the scene below of a farmyard, you can create a scan pattern that highlights individual items.
You can now scan through each item in turn, or change the scan order by using the list.
Remember, each block here corresponds to an item: Row 3, Column 1 – 2 Rows, 3 Columns is “barn,” Row 5, Column 2 – 2 Rows, 1 Column is “farmer,” and so on.
Scanning Block Within Blocks
One other feature of the customizable block scan is that you can also scan blocks within blocks. To illustrate, let’s take another look at our Farmyard scene.
“Barn,” “farmer’s wife,” and “house” are outlined. If you outline "sky” as follows:
You can see that the block also includes all of “barn” and “house” along with part of “farmer’s wife.” However, the scan will outline each in turn so when the barn alone is highlighted, you can say “barn,” but when the sky area is highlighted, you can say “sky.”
Treat Block As...
There is one more feature to point out and that is the option to treat a scannable block as either a block or a key. The difference is based on what exactly a “block” is. Technically, it is a group of keys that can be scanned as a whole but then scanned, key by key, within the block. So if you have defined a block of pronouns like this:
Your scan will highlight it as such, but when you hit your switch to select, the scan will operate as row/column, column/row, or linear within the block, depending on your scan setting.
Now, you can also use the following setting:
The default of BLOCK means that if you select the block, you can scan within it to specific keys. If you switch to SINGLE KEY, when you select the block, it will act as a large, single key and will do whatever is stored in the top-right location.
This is how we can scan blocks within blocks in scenes. Technically, in the example above, we have the word “sky” programmed at Row 1 Column 1. Similarly, “barn” is stored at Row 3 Column 1, “house” at Row 4 Column 11, and “farmer’s wife” at Row 4 Column 9.
Delete Current Block
You can delete a block by selecting the Delete Current Block option.