KELLY: Hello everyone. My name is Kelly Ford. In this presentation we are going to talk a little bit about Windows 7 and try and give you a sense of what is coming up in the new operating system from Microsoft, talk a little bit about some of the features, and give you a sense of how those features work and what it's like to use the operating system with a screen reader. Some background about myself. I have been a screen-reading user since the mid 1980s. I have been blind my whole life, so pretty familiar with the technology and have used screen readers, you know, all the way through today; pretty much everything that's come out on the market over the years. For the last nine years I have been with Microsoft working in the test engineering discipline. Today I work on the Internet Explorer team. I have spent most of my career in one web browsing technology or another with the company. I manage different people that are responsible for testing the Internet Explorer and also work on a team of people that are responsible for the browser's accessibility. This presentation won't focus just on Internet Explorer, but will go into some of the features of Windows 7. So without any further adieu let's start talking about Windows 7 and some of the things that are coming up. Now, Windows 7 has many new features and we can't cover them all. One of the greatest starting points to learn about what's new with Windows 7 -- SCREEN READER: Internet Explorer button, context menu, welcome to Windows 7. KELLY: Which we'll launch right now. SCREEN READER: Leaving menus, http://www.Microsoft.welcome. KELLY: The address of this website is www.Microsoft.com/Windows7. Now, you might have heard a couple of interesting things when we launched that. I launched the website from the Windows taskbar. The taskbar is one of those features that we've made some changes to in Windows 7. A couple notable things I think are the fact that you can launch programs from the taskbar with the Windows key and a number. For example, Internet Explorer on my computer is in the first position on the taskbar. So I can hit Windows key "1" to launch that program. The taskbar also has a feature known as jump lists. Now, different programs can populate what's called a jump list with different information. The Internet Explorer jump list, for example, is populated with some of your most frequently browsed websites and then some commands for launching the browser in various ways. So let's step back and look at the taskbar in a little bit more detail and what happened when we launched IE to the Windows 7 website. I'm going to hit Windows key "T" to put focus to the taskbar. SCREEN READER: Welcome to Windows 7, Windows Internet Explorer button. KELLY: So we hear the button for IE. Now, to bring up the jump list I can hit the context or application key or shift F10 on my keyboard. SCREEN READER: Context menu, welcome to Windows 7. KELLY: So there we hear "welcome to Windows 7." That's one of the entries from the jump list because it's -- it's a website I browse frequently right now. SCREEN READER: Compare additions. KELLY: The compare additions is another website from my browsing history and such and that it's actually a sub web page off the Windows 7 website that talks about the different additions of Windows 7 that are available. SCREEN READER: RTD started private browsing. KELLY: Here you can hear is an entry for starting in private browsing. That's a feature of Windows Internet Explorer 8 that's built into Windows 7 that would launch. And we'll talk about that in a couple minutes. SCREEN READER: Open new tab. KELLY: And then we also have open new tab. So we already have one tab open in IE, but let's see what happens when we open a new tab and then go back to Internet Explorer's entry on the start menu. Now, most people are probably familiar with tab browsing at this point. We now have two tabs open in Internet Explorer. If you're not familiar with tab browsing it's basically a way to have multiple web pages open in the same browser window. And you can cycle between them with control and tab. SCREEN READER: Jump to page content site virtual PC welcome to Windows 7. KELLY: So now we're in the welcome to Windows 7 web page and we hit control tab. SCREEN READER: New tab. KELLY: And we're on Internet Explorer's new tab page. We did this because again we want to go back to the taskbar now just to get a sense of what's changed. Now we'll hit Windows key "T" to go back to the taskbar. SCREEN READER: New tab, Windows Internet Explorer button. KELLY: Now, the taskbar has visual previews of some of the Windows. You can also arrow through them if you want. It's just another way to make selections. SCREEN READER: Welcome to Windows. KELLY: So if I hit the up arrow I can now arrow between -- SCREEN READER: New tab, Windows Internet Explorer. KELLY: -- those tabs that I had opened. SCREEN READER: Welcome to Windows 7, Windows Internet Explorer. KELLY: And if we were on a different start menu entry there may be other things to arrow between. One other nice thing about the Windows key number combinations to launch items off the taskbar is that if an application has multiple windows or tabs, like the Internet Explorer tabs that we opened up, you can use Windows key in that same number to cycle between the open windows for the program. So if you're familiar with ALT tab to switch between applications, Windows key and the number kind of becomes ALT tab but only for that application. So, for example, I can keep hitting Windows key "1" and cycle between the tabs that I had opened in Internet Explorer. SCREEN READER: Welcome to Windows 7, Windows Internet Explorer. The Seattle Times, Seattle Times newspaper, Windows Internet Explorer. KELLY: While the microphone and such were off I kind of cheated for a second and opened up another tab. SCREEN READER: New tab, Windows Internet Explorer. KELLY: So there you can see I keep hitting Windows key "1". SCREEN READER: Welcome to Windows 7, Windows Internet, the Seattle Times, Seattle Times, new tab, Windows Internet Explorer. KELLY: Now we're cycling between them, the tabs. Just as a note, this isn't new to Windows 7 or Internet Explorer 8, but when you are in Internet Explorer and you want to get a quick list of all the tabs that you have open you can hit control shift "Q". SCREEN READER: Context menu, welcome to Windows 7, the Seattle Times, Seattle Times, new tab checked. KELLY: So I hit control shift "Q" and then I was arrowing between the tabs. SCREEN READER: Leaving -- KELLY: One last example with the Window key, I have a couple of blank Word documents opened and that happens to be in position 6 on my taskbar. So I can hit Window key "6". SCREEN READER: Document 1 Microsoft Word, Document 2 Microsoft Word. KELLY: And so there we go, I have jumped between those. So that's probably enough about the Window key. One last thing I want to talk about about the taskbar is something known as jump lists. Now, we'll do this on the fly. SCREEN READER: JAWS dialogue. KELLY: So you load up -- switch from JAWS to Windows just to give you a sense of how another screen reader sounds in Windows 7. SCREEN READER: Window-Eyes 7.1. KELLY: So jump lists are kind of like -- SCREEN READER: Section 101 style. KELLY: -- a shortcut on the taskbar. If you bring up the right click or context menu for an item on the taskbar it can have what's called a jump list. It's kind of like shortcuts. SCREEN READER: Taskbar. KELLY: So we talked about Internet Explorer a lot. In this case we'll arrow to the right one time. SCREEN READER: Windows Explorer button. KELLY: So now we're on the Windows Explorer entry. And if I hit the -- some people call it the application, some people call it the context key -- I think everybody knows what it is, it's the key just to the left of the right control key on your keyboard or a shift F10, that's going to bring up the jump list. Now, programs can have different entries on their jump lists. In IE, again, as I mentioned, it is some of the websites that you visited and then some tasks to launch the browser in various ways. Windows Explorer, let's bring up the jump list for that. SCREEN READER: Jump list, no selected item, blog frequent group 1 of 12, blog "C" data Kelly. KELLY: There you head it say "blog," and then a frequent group, and then it gave kind of a path to what that's really going to open. So my blog directory, where I keep some of the files for posting on my blog, is obviously a directory I use frequently. So I can arrow between these various entries. SCREEN READER: Desktop 12 of 12, share 3 of 12, share media guest, tab 33, 4 of 12, docs 5 of 12, docs "C" data Kelly. KELLY: So there is also a shortcut to bring up the jump list for any application. SCREEN READER: Goldway listing. KELLY: So if I hit ALT, the Windows key, and the number of the application that will directly bring up the jump list for that application. So because I want to talk about one last feature of Internet Explorer 8 for right now, the InPrivate feature, we're going to bring up IE's jump list one last time with ALT plus Windows key and "1". SCREEN READER: Jump list, no selected item list view. KELLY: And I'm going to arrow in reverse through the menu, so I'm going to hit up arrow. SCREEN READER: Close window 8 of 8, unpin this program from taskbar 7 of 8. KELLY: So there, the unpin entry. If I don't want IE on the taskbar I don't have to have it. SCREEN READER: Internet Explorer 6 of 8, open new tab, task group 5 of 8, start InPrivate browsing 4 of 8. KELLY: So because I had mentioned this before, this said start InPrivate browsing. If I launch IE here -- SCREEN READER: Windows Internet Explorer, address InPrivate edit box. KELLY: So I'm now in what we call private browsing. What this means is things like cookies, your browsing history, and other data are not stored. SCREEN READER: InPrivate button, InPrivate no linger control, InPrivate is turned on. KELLY: So this, when you launch InPrivate, it's kind of a web page that gives you a little bit of detail about how the feature works. SCREEN READER: When InPrivate browsing is turned on you will see this indicator, InPrivate in the address bar, InPrivate browsing helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data. KELLY: So, again, it's ALT Window and the number of the application. Let's check out the jump list for another program. SCREEN READER: Jump list, no selected, calligraphy pin group 1 of -- KELLY: So I hit ALT Windows key "3", that's the jump list for Windows Media Player. Now, this has on its jump list some of the recent files or directories that I have been playing. SCREEN READER: Delta frequent group 2. KELLY: Let's take a listen. SCREEN READER: Windows -- (Music playing.) KELLY: No, I'm not a guitar player. What that is is that's actually one of the sound themes associated and available in Windows 7. I thought a lot of times when we read reviews and things like that people are always showing screen shots of the different screens and such for an application or a Windows 7. I thought I would give you a quick sample of a couple of the sound themes that are available. Now, you may be familiar that different events in Windows, you know, balloon tips and logon and logoff and the rest can have sounds. So that was what's called the Delta theme. Again, we'll hit ALT Window "3" for the Windows Media Player jump list and let's just listen to one more group of files. SCREEN READER: Jump list, calligraphy, Delta frequent, not a 3 of 6, characters 4 of 16. KELLY: So here is a theme called characters. SCREEN READER: Windows Media Player. (Music playing.) KELLY: Let's listen to that one more time. (Music playing.) KELLY: Now, obviously without knowing which file is associated with which event it's kind of just a collection of sounds, but you can change the theme and then you would be able to listen to those sounds. And you can probably guess just from the variation on some of the default sounds you may be familiar with which sound goes to which event. Let's jump back to Windows Explorer a little bit and talk a little bit more about some of the things that are new in Windows Explorer. One of the more interesting things is a concept called libraries that have been added to Windows Explorer. You can think of it kind of as a way to collect files and directories of various type and from various locations all into one collection. So we'll use, for example, the music library to take a look both at how libraries work a little bit and just what Windows Explorer is like. So I'm going to open my start menu. SCREEN READER: Start menu, search box, edit box. KELLY: Hit tab once. SCREEN READER: Kelly list view 1 of 10, open your personal folder. KELLY: And then arrow down to my music entry on the start menu. Now I happen to know this is a library. SCREEN READER: Documents 2 of 10, pictures 3 -- music 4 of 10, play music and other audio, Windows Explorer, items new list box, side north-south, question mark -- KELLY: So the first thing is just the typical list view where you can arrow -- SCREEN READER: Three doors down -- KELLY: -- up and down. SCREEN READER: 3, 4, 112, date modified, date modified. SCREEN READER: And I can arrow between different music or if I know what I'm looking for I can type the letter. We're back in Windows Explorer. Now, I have switched back to JAWS just to switch back and forth between the screen readers. Again, as I was saying, if I know what I'm looking for in this list view, and this is not new, I can type the letter or part of the letter or word of what I'm looking. So I enjoy Bonnie Raitt, so I'll type part of her name. SCREEN READER: Bon Jovi, and harmony, Bonnie Raitt. KELLY: And so there is the entry for Bonnie Raitt. Again, as I mentioned, this was a library and so I'm going to hit shift tab once. SCREEN READER: Music Explorer pane, library pane, arranged by artist button. KELLY: So there you hear it says, "arranged by artist." It's a button. SCREEN READER: Context menu folder. KELLY: And again a library is a collection of folders and files, so I could arrange by the folder all of this information came from in a music folder that's really, you know, not overly practical. SCREEN READER: Album, artist checked, song, genre, rating, changes. KELLY: So you can see I can sort by all of these different -- SCREEN READER: Rating, genre, song, artist check. KELLY: -- types. SCREEN READER: Album. KELLY: Change to album once. SCREEN READER: Leaving menus, music Explorer pane, library pane, RTC, desktop, search box, music Explorer pane, command module, TreeView, TreeView, library pane, includes three locations, arrange by album button, not selected items, view, 9, 17 great tracks from the High Note Label, 20th set, a Charlie Brown Christmas, a Funk Odyssey, Absolute Animals 196 -- Afroblue Impressions. KELLY: So there you can see now we're sort of by album name. Now, one of the things that you might have heard as I was tabbing around -- SCREEN READER: Music Explorer pane, library includes three locations button. KELLY: -- was the fact that this library included three locations. There are multiple ways to add folders into libraries, this is not the only way, but we'll take a poke in here. SCREEN READER: Music library locations dialogue, okay button, cancel items view list box, my music. KELLY: So the "my music" folder is included. SCREEN READER: Public music. KELLY: Public music off of this computer. SCREEN READER: MP3. KELLY: And then a directory called MP3 that is actually on another computer that I have shared with this computer. I mentioned that one of the folders in my music library was shared from another computer. I actually shared that with something that's new to Windows 7 called home group. It makes sharing folders between computers that are running Windows 7 on your home network relatively easy. Within the control panel there is an entry called home group. The first time you launch it it prompts you to enter a password and choose what you want to share. On any other computers once a home group has been set up the home group entry will tell you that there is a home group on your home network and all you need to do is enter the password that's been previously created and choose the check boxes for sharing and then the home group directories -- SCREEN READER: TreeView, TreeView, music closed. KELLY: -- show up in the Explorer TreeView. SCREEN READER: Pictures closed, videos group opened. KELLY: So here's the entry for home group. Now, I'm on one computer and in my home group right now I have a couple of other computers linked up. SCREEN READER: HP administrator brain box closed. Kelly media opened. KELLY: So I have two computers. I have mentioned the control panel a couple of times and so we may as well head on over to that destination to see what's changed or how it's laid out in Windows 7. I'm a big fan of the run dialogue, so I'm going to hit Win key "R". SCREEN READER: Run dialogue, control. KELLY: And enter control. SCREEN READER: ALT control panel items, Explorer pane, backup and restore, action center link. KELLY: Now, in Vista and Windows XP there was a list view of the control panel items. While that's gone from Windows 7 there are various views that you can change. SCREEN READER: Small icons button. KELLY: So this button right now that says "small icons" -- SCREEN READER: Context menu, category. KELLY: -- lets me chose between category -- SCREEN READER: Large icons, small icons checked. KELLY: -- large and small icons. As you can guess, since small icons is checked I tend to use that view. SCREEN READER: Leaving menus, small icons, action center administrative, action center link. KELLY: Now, I can hit the right and left arrow. SCREEN READER: Administrative auto -- action, backup and restore link. SCREEN READER: And move across the row of items, the down arrow to move to the next row, and again right and left. Of course, if I know what I'm looking for I can still, just as I could with a list view, hit the first letter or letters of what I'm looking for. We have talked a lot about home group, for example, so I'll type "H". SCREEN READER: Home group link. KELLY: And there we are. If we were to go into the home group -- SCREEN READER: Cancel button, desktop search box edit, pictures, check box checked. KELLY: -- there you see that check box I mentioned for choosing whether pictures -- SCREEN READER: Music check box checked. KELLY: -- music and such are saved. SCREEN READER: ALT control panel items, Explorer pane, PC. KELLY: There are a number of control panel items -- SCREEN READER: Backup address, date and time link. KELLY: -- as you can guess really for controlling a lot of the different behaviors of Windows 7. We can probably do a little session on many of the control panel items, you know, each one by themselves, time doesn't permit that here but I did want to show you one control panel entry that I think is kind of handy. It allows you to change the way that notification icons work down in the system tray. So I can hit "N". SCREEN READER: Network and sharing center link, notification area icons link. KELLY: So the notification area. And I press enter. We're going to launch this control panel. SCREEN READER: Okay button. KELLY: Now what I can choose from is how the various notification icons from the system appear. SCREEN READER: Cancel desktop search box edit, help link, action center combo box, show icon and notifications. KELLY: So there are three settings for each entry. SCREEN READER: Icon and notification, only show notifications. KELLY: So show icon and notification means that when you hit Windows key "B" to move focus to the notification area the icon for that entry will always be there. If you have notifications only, only when there is a notification to alert you of something will the entry be there, and obviously as you can guess hide means hide. SCREEN READER: Hide icon, show icon and notifications. KELLY: So we could just tab through a couple of these. SCREEN READER: Network combo box, show icon and notifications, volume combo box, show icon and -- Windows update combo box, only show notifications. KELLY: So there you can see Windows update is only going to appear when there is a notification. SCREEN READER: Desktop Window manager combo box, only show notifications, Microsoft Office Outlook combo box, Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows device installation combo box, only show notifi- -- turn system icons on or off link, restore, always show light okay button. KELLY: I wanted to shift gears for a second and talk about a couple other areas of Windows 7 that have been changed a little bit. Anyone who's used Office 2007 has probably experienced what's called the ribbon. The ribbon has been added to a couple programs in Windows 7. The one people here may use from time to time is called Wordpad. And so let's launch that and -- SCREEN READER: Run dialogue -- PC. KELLY: The difference between the ribbon and pulldown menus that we may be familiar with is that on screen more of the elements are displayed at once. You can still use the ribbon with the keyboard. So we'll hit ALT -- SCREEN READER: Ribbon tab list, home tab. KELLY: And so now we're at the home entry. And if we hit the right arrow we move to another top level ribbon entry. SCREEN READER: View tab. KELLY: If we hit the tab keyboard focus goes into the elements for that ribbon. SCREEN READER: Home tab. KELLY: So we're back on home. SCREEN READER: Help button, get help using Word, cut button unavailable, copy button unavailable, font family edit, delivery, leaving ribbons, rich text. KELLY: Then if we hit escape we depart from the ribbon. Like I mentioned at the beginning of the demo, it's impossible to go over everything that's new in Windows 7, so before we get much further why don't you jump back to the website that I had mentioned at the beginning of the talk, that's the Windows 7 website where you can get more information on many of the features in Windows 7. I'm a big fan of I guess teaching people or showing people how to learn information because, like I said, you can just never go over everything and at least this will be a way to get more ideas about what's new in Windows 7. So we're going to use the Internet Explorer jump list that we talked about earlier, so again that's ALT Windows and "1". SCREEN READER: Context menu, welcome to Windows 7. KELLY: And then we're going to hit enter. SCREEN READER: Leaving menus, welcome to Windows 7, Windows Internet Explorer. Two frames, welcome. KELLY: So now we're back to the Windows 7 website. And there is a load of information on this website. The thing I found handy is the features link. SCREEN READER: Links features. KELLY: So we bring up the links list in your screen reader of choice. SCREEN READER: Info -- KELLY: Now, again -- SCREEN READER: 5 edits in one feature. KELLY: -- there is a lot of information on this website but here is a couple of shortcuts on how it works. SCREEN READER: Combo box communication. KELLY: So I hit "C" in JAWS, and you can use whatever you want to jump to the combo box. SCREEN READER: Virtual PC. KELLY: So right now the feature list is sorted by categories. SCREEN READER: List end, link alphabetical. KELLY: But we can up arrow a couple times, hit enter, and sort by alphabetical. SCREEN READER: Link category, alphabetical list end, combo box 64 bit dot dot dot, dot dot dot, 1 to 5. KELLY: So now what happens is the combo box lets you choose groups of features. Right now it's on 64 bit to bit locker, not necessarily the most interesting, so let's go pick another group from the alphabet. SCREEN READER: Desktop dot dot dot to jump list dot dot dot. KELLY: So desktop to jump list. SCREEN READER: Alphabetical virtual PC, blank, link device management. KELLY: So now here are the links for the features. SCREEN READER: Blank, link to main join, blank, link gadgets. KELLY: SO gadgets. SCREEN READER: Blank, link games explorer, blank, link getting started, blank, link home group. KELLY: Home group, which we talked about. SCREEN READER: Blank, link Internet Explorer 8, blank, link jump lists. KELLY: And then jump lists. So if I press enter on jump lists the web page -- SCREEN READER: New frame, virtual PC. KELLY: -- is loaded with that information. Now I can hit "H" or whatever command your screen reader has for jumping to headings, and most of them use "H". SCREEN READER: Jump list heading level 2, heading level 6 included in Windows 7 additions. KELLY: So then you get a little bit of information about which additions of Windows 7 -- SCREEN READER: Blank, table with two columns and -- KELLY: -- and the features in them. We're just going to skip past that. SCREEN READER: Blank, table end, blank, compare additions, blank, jump list Windows 7 take you right to documents, pictures, songs, or websites current to each day. To open the jump list just right click a program icon on the Windows 7 taskbar. You also find them on the start menu. Blank, whatever you see in the jump list depends entirely on the program the jump list for. Link Internet Explorer 8. Show frequently viewed websites. Link Windows Media Player 12. List commonly played tunes. Your jump list missing a favorite? You can pin whatever file you like there. Blank, jump list just show shortcuts to files, sometimes they also provide quick access to commands like composing new e-mail messages or playing music, blank. KELLY: So you could go and read this. But this is just one example of where you can get that top level overview about all the features. You can pick a different category, so -- SCREEN READER: Alphabetical combo box, desktop dot dot dot, library dot dot dot, snap dot dot dot, alphabetical comp virtual PC. KELLY: -- we'll change and we'll look at the entry for libraries briefly. SCREEN READER: Blank, link location to printing, blank, link libraries. KELLY: Here is libraries. Again, press enter. SCREEN READER: New frame, virtual PC, libraries, adding level -- adding level 6 included, blank, table -- KELLY: And "H". We're going to skip the table. SCREEN READER: Blank, table, blank, compare additions, libraries Windows 7 make it easier to find, work with, and organize files scattered across your PC or network a library brings your stuff together in one place or matter where it's actually stored. The results, you get more done. Blank, say you're assembling a family album from -- KELLY: So we can go through and listen to that whole description, but you can read this information for yourself. Again, the way to get to this website is www.Microsoft.com/Windows7. Speaking of learning, I wanted to remind everybody that Windows has an extensive online help system. We've been talking a little bit about libraries, let's take a look at how we might find more information about how to work with libraries from the help system. So I can bring up the start menu. SCREEN READER: Start menu, search Microsoft Office. KELLY: I'll hit "H" for help and support. SCREEN READER: Help and support list view 10 of 10, help and support 10 of 10 finds help topics tutorials. KELLY: I'll hit enter. SCREEN READER: Windows help and search links, search help search help edit box. KELLY: I'm going to type in the word library. SCREEN READER: 31 links one table, 5 link, 4 link, customize a library, 3 link, library frequently asked questions. 3 link, 4 visited link, working with library, 5 link, managing your videos, 5 visited link, working with libraries. KELLY: So you can see there is a few different topics and we can press enter on any one of these. SCREEN READER: 9 links one heading, working with libraries and previous versions of Windows managing your link files and organizing from a different -- KELLY: So there again you could go through and read information about libraries. Since we're talking about libraries and I talked about home group let's look at a couple of last things related to that area. We are going to open Windows Explorer again with Windows key "2". SCREEN READER: Kelly, books type file folder. KELLY: Now, I went to a folder that I previously opened named "Kelly" and focuses in the list view on an -- SCREEN READER: Audio books type -- KELLY: -- item called books. I can bring up the context menu for that folder. SCREEN READER: Context menu open, open, open share with "H" pull down. KELLY: First of all, you see we have a share-with option. SCREEN READER: Nobody in. KELLY: Right arrow to open the sub menu. SCREEN READER: Home group read "H". KELLY: So there because I'm joined to my home group I can let anybody on the home group read the contents of this file just by pressing enter or -- SCREEN READER: Home group read write "H". KELLY: -- I can allow them to read and write information by choosing that option. SCREEN READER: Share with, restore, include in library I pull down. KELLY: I can also say include in a library right with this entry. SCREEN READER: Documents "D". KELLY: I can put in a documents library. SCREEN READER: Music "M", pictures "P", videos "V", create new libraries "E", documents "D". KELLY: I can go through those four libraries or create my own. I hope this gives you a little bit more of the sense of the powers of some of the information management technologies in Windows 7, specifically libraries and home group. I want to step away from demos for a second and talk a little bit about some of the behind the scenes things that have also been done to improve accessibility in Windows 7. Microsoft has a technology known as UI Automation that premiered in Windows Vista. That technology has been enhanced and more and more assistive technology is taking advantage of it in Windows 7. You can learn more about all of Microsoft accessibility efforts at the main accessibility website of www.Microsoft.com/enable. UI Automation is not the only accessibility enhancement. Internet Explorer has added support with IE 8 for an emerging standard on the web called ARIA or Accessible Rich Internet Applications. ARIA has many components and at a high level you can think of it as a way to allow some of the rich control sets and information that you're used to in traditional applications to be created in HTML: Things like TreeViews, grids, and more are an example. You may also be familiar with things like landmarks or what is known as live regions, where information can be read and updated automatically. Time doesn't permit demonstrations of these technologies, but you are seeing more screen readers and other assistive technologies and websites start to add support for ARIA. There are several other accessibility enhancements that have been made in Windows 7. Just a couple more examples are things like the on-screen keyboard being enhanced, speech input being improved, and the magnifier getting an overhaul. Just one example of a change there is that it now supports multiple viewing modes. Again, www.Microsoft.com/enable is a place to learn more about Microsoft's accessibility efforts. I want to be sure to leave time for questions. I do want to close with something that has nothing do with Windows 7 but as a question I answer many times. As I mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, I work on Internet Explorer and have for several years, back in Windows XP, XP 2, if you can recall back, we added something in IE called the information bar, and I have answered the question on many mailing lists and other forums, as have other people, about how do you use the information bar with the screen reader. I want to take this opportunity just to remind people about how that works. Just as a reminder or in case you haven't found out yet, you can press ALT plus "N" when the information bar appears in IE and that will put focus on the information bar and you can press space to bring up a menu of options related to why the information bar has appeared, things like a pop-up being blocked and such. Well, as I said, I wanted to leave time for questions, but I think we'll draw the prerecorded part of this presentation to a close. Thank everyone again for listening. We've just scratched the surface. In IE alone there's many other features, things like accelerators, web slices, zoom, and more that we haven't even touched on. And so you can imagine across all of Windows 7 there are many new and exciting features waiting for you to use starting on October 22nd when Windows 7 is generally available. Again, the website to learn more is www.Microsoft.com/Windows7.