Getting around the app

The AccessCaster window is simple. On the left is a tree of nine categories, from Channels and Processing to Help and About; expand one with the right arrow to reach its pages. On the right is the page you have chosen, with its settings.

• F6 moves between the tree and the page.
• Alt and 1 to 9 jump to a category.
• Ctrl and Tab, or Ctrl, Shift and Tab, move to the next or previous page in a category. On a page with tabs, they move between the tabs instead.
• F5 refreshes the category, fetching its current settings from the desk.
• F12 checks for any updates for AccessCaster.
• NVDA and End, Insert and Page Down in JAWS, or Narrator and backslash reads the status bar, which tells you anything on the desk that needs your attention, such as a pad left on or a card nearly full.

Closing the window leaves AccessCaster running in the notification area, so your keyboard shortcuts and the announcer keep working, and opening the app again brings the same window back. If you would rather closing the window quit the app, turn off Keep running in the system tray on the App settings General page.

To reach the tray icon, press Windows and B, arrow to AccessCaster, then press Enter or the Applications key. Its menu has Open AccessCaster; Announcer, ticked while spoken announcements are on; Diagnostic log, the app's record of what it sent to the desk; Check for updates; and Quit. If the desk is part-way through something, such as a restore or copying a pad's sound, AccessCaster tells you and waits rather than quitting, so the desk is not left half written.