Background

Supernova is one of the most popular 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

Course Outline

• Introduction
  • What is Supanova 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 Supernova 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 Supanova keystrokes.
  • WWW (3 hours)
  • Links navigator
  • General tips to help make accessing the web easier
  • Map files (3 hours)
  • Improved access to various applications: MSN, Sage Business Works, Britannic 2002 etc