Objectives

Lunar and Lunar Plus are two of the most popular magnification and screen magnification and screen reader programs. This course is designed to help new users to the program to be up-and-running as quickly as possible

Who should attend

• Users
• Special Needs teachers
• Special Needs Coordinators

A basic knowledge of Windows would be an advantage but is not essential.

Course Outline

Introduction
What is Lunar and how does it work.
Differences between Visually Impaired and totally blind usage.
Creating desktop shortcuts

Basic Commands.
Magnification Types and the different ways to view a screen.
Magnification Keystrokes
Panning or moving around a screen

Using Lunar Plus as a Screen Reader
Basic Keystrokes
Navigation Mode
Word Processing. Creating documents, formatting etc from a VI perspective

Advanced Usage
Email
Sending and receiving mail,
Using Microsoft Shortcut keys to supplement Lunar keystrokes.

WWW
Links navigator
General tips to help make accessing the web easier
(Please note that Supernova is not recommended for use with AOL.)

Map files
Improved access to various applications: MSN, Sage Business Works etc