What is the Display and Status Areas on the Vantage?
Text Display Area
This is where you will see any text that appears, either from messages that you have retrieved by selecting icon sequences or from typing in text. Touch this area and your device will speak any text on the display.
Icon Display Area/Word Prediction List Area
This is where you will see the icons that you activate on your communication overlay or, if you are using your spelling overlay and Word Prediction is On, you will see a list of predicted words.
Status Display Area
Date and Time
Displays the current date and time. Set this in the CLOCK MENU in the Toolbox.
Battery Bar Graph
This shows the status of the batteries. A FULL battery shows mostly green lines, with only a few red and yellow lines. A LOW battery shows only red and yellow lines. Plug in the charger. You cannot store when the battery is low.
An ALMOST DEAD battery shows only red lines. You will hear a warning beep that the Vantage Lite is going to shut down. Plug in the charger.
Speaker Icon and Headphone Icon
These indicate speaker and headphone volume. When the lines fill up the bar graph, the volume is at its loudest.
Caps Lock
When this is lit, you have turned Caps lock on in your spelling overlay. All letters you type will be in CAPITAL letters.
Note: Do not use Caps Lock when storing messages for Natural Speech voices.
Ctrl
When this is lit, you are sending a CONTROL command.
Output
When this is lit, your Output option is On in the OUTPUT MENU. Anything you type, or any messages you retrieve will appear on the Text Display Area of your overlay and will also be sent to the internal computer.
Speech
When this is lit, your device will speak anything that appears in the Text Display Area.