Little Known Facts about Auditory Prompts in a Pathfinder.
True and Possibly Little-known Facts about Auditory Scanning
1. To change the prompt of an activity row, you can either change the label of the icon for the row, or you can store a category prompt. For either of these, begin in the Modify Activity Menu. If you just use the set-up key to modify a key in the row, you won’t find a way to change the prompt for the row.
2. If you set your auditory prompts on Content, then you should add a prompt marker and a prompt to keys that have sentences, jokes, songs, or macros. (Unless you get some clue from hearing the word “macro” as the scan goes by.)
3. If you set your auditory prompts on label, you can make up any non-English spelled combination of letters for the label, and then tell the dictionary menu how to pronounce the label.
4. Activities that show up in the main activity row are not influenced at all by the setting of temporary or permanent persistence in the Dynamic activity menu. Main activity rows always act like permanent activities, and must be made to go away by using the Choose Activity tool.
5. In Vanguard/Vantage you can set row/column prompts for the core rows. You can set quadrant prompts for quarter/row block scanning, but setting column/row prompts for block scanning is not yet available.
6. To make a “bail-out” key, you can insert the cancel tool on a key.
7. People who use single switch scan can learn to use auto-repeat to do double hits on a key. With step scan, there is no auto repeat.
8. To demonstrate and practice with switches using PASS, set up the selection technique menu, then use the number 1 for one switch and number 2 for the second switch.
9. If your activation delay is set longer than your scan speed, you won’t be able to access anything.
10. Auditory prompts can be used with direct select. You will not hear any category prompts, of course. The keys must be selected twice, once to hear the prompt, and once to say the word or message on the key. This technique is known as “auditory fishing.”
Article Created by Verda McGraw