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COMPLETE HELP - 11. How to Install TypeAbility

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  1. How to Install TypeAbility

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS & REQUIRED SETTINGS

  1. You must be running WINDOWS 10, WINDOWS 8, WINDOWS 7, or VISTA.
  2. In Windows Display Settings, the Scale/Layout should be set to the default 100%. Sometimes concerned authorities use this slider to magnify the size of the text.  But, this can be better accomplished with screen magnifiers. And most importantly, TypeAbility does not speak some of its screens if the Windows Scale/Layout is not set to the default 100%
  3. TypeAbility uses speech generated from the JAWS Speech Engine. There are 2 different types of  TypeAbility installations: TypeAbility for JAWS and TypeAbility for ZoomText Fusion.
    • TypeAbility for JAWS. If you're running with JAWS, you must have JAWS 13 or higher. If you don't have a registered copy of JAWS, you can use the free JAWS 40-Minute Demo. (To download the free JAWS Demo, go to www.FreedomScientific.com.)
    • TypeAbility for ZoomText Fusion. Fusion  ZoomText is a magnification program that also uses JAWS as a speech engine. When you initially install Fusion, JAWS 18 or higher is automatically installed.  If you wish to run TypeAbility with ZT Fusion, then during the installation of TypeAbility, choose the option to install it into JAWS.
  4. Upgrading JAWS or Fusion. If, after installing TypeAbility, you then upgrade JAWS, and Fusion to a newer version, and you also want to run TypeAbility with that newer version, then you must reinstall TypeAbility into the new version. You do not have to uninstall TypeAbility before installing a new version of TypeAbility
  5. Network Installations. If you are installing TypeAbility on networked computers, then if you wish to allow students to move to different computers in the network, and be recognized by any of those computers, then during the installation of TypeAbility, there will be a screen where you can define a shared folder on the network where student data is copied to. The exact instructions are provided below.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

 You must install TypeAbility while logged on as a user with Administrative rights. After TypeAbility is installed, all log-ins for that computer will have access to TypeAbility.

  1. After you insert the TypeAbility CD, the installation program should run. However, if it doesn't start after a while, open the TypeAbility CD and press ENTER on Setup.exe. When the Installer runs, different screens will be displayed, asking you to make choices.  If you are a JAWS user, then to have each screen announced automatically by JAWS, press INSERT+S until JAWS says the word “All”. Alternatively, pressing INSERT+B when each screen gains focus will cause JAWS to speak the contents of each screen. 
  2. If you're installing with the TypeAbility CD, and the installation program doesn't run, then open the TypeAbility CD and press ENTER on Setup.exe.
  3. Near the beginning of the installation, you are potentially presented with 2 choices: 
  4. a) To install TypeAbility for JAWS 
  5. b) To install TypeAbility for Fusion
  6. The next screen is named "Choose JAWS (Fusion) version". This screen has checkboxes for 3 of the latest JAWS (or Fusion) versions installed on your computer. TypeAbility will be installed only into the versions that you check. So if you have JAWS 14 and 15, and you only check JAWS 15, then after installation, TypeAbility will be able to run when you are running JAWS 15, but not JAWS 14.

    Note that if you are installing TypeAbility for ZoomText Fusion, the JAWS versions will also be presented to you.  But only JAWS 18 and above work with Fusion.

  7. A few screens later, the registration screen will be displayed. This is where you enter your TypeAbility registration number. If you have not purchased TypeAbility, you need not enter any number, and TypeAbility will be installed as a demo. The TypeAbility demo will run 15 times before timing out.
  8. One of the last installation screens is titled, Get User Data Location. This page is only for those who have Networked computers and wish to define a place on the File Server to store TypeAbility's User Data. Otherwise, you can just press NEXT on this page. (For more details on Network Installations, see Network Installation at the bottom of this page.) 
  9. After the installation is complete, if you have set JAWS Screen Echo to "All", you should return Screen Echo to Normal by pressing INSERT+S repeatedly until JAWS says the word “Highlighted”.
  10. There will now be a TypeAbility shortcut on the desktop that you will use to start TypeAbility. The shortcut is called "Fun with TypeAbility." Just press it, and TypeAbility will start, and then just follow the directions that will be spoken to you. 
  11. Finally, realize that if after installing TypeAbility into, for instance, JAWS 15, if you then upgrade JAWS to, say, JAWS 16, you will NOT automatically be able to run TypeAbility in JAWS 16. You will have to reinstall TypeAbility and specifically choose JAWS 16 in TypeAbility's "Choose JAWS Version" screen. Remember, you do not have to uninstall TypeAbility before installing a new version of TypeAbility.
  12. TypeAbilityHelp.rtf is a complete 40-page tutorial and can be accessed from 3 different places:
      • On the TypeAbility CD
    • In Start Menu: Start Menu/Programs/TypeAbility4/TypeAbility Help
    • In the TypeAbility program: Just press INSERT+H or INSERT + F1.

Storing User Data on a Server

 1) TypeAbility always stores User Data, such as Student Records and Teacher's Customized Lessons, on the local computer. But during the installation of TypeAbility, you have the opportunity to define a shared location on the File Server where user data can also be stored and thus shared. So if the server is in contact with the client computers, and you define a shared folder on the server to store TypeAbility's User Data, then students and their history will be recognized by any computer on the network that has TypeAbility installed.

2) In the installation screen titled, Get User Data Location, you will find an edit field and an adjacent Browse button. You can use the Browse button to display a tree view of your drives and directories. Alternatively, you can also just manually type in the path into the edit field.

 

NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS DEPLOYING TypeAbility

Rather than locally installing TypeAbility, if you wish to deploy TypeAbility from a server to the client computers, you can run the installer silently by using the Command Prompt and passing arguments to TypeAbility.exe

There will be 3 arguments: 2 mandatory, and one optional.

  • The first argument is the Install Type: either JAWS or MAGic. The Install Type should also include the version number, for instance: JAWS16 or MAGic12
  • The second argument is your TypeAbility Registration code. This is provided to you upon purchase of TypeAbility and is generated from your JAWS/MAGic serial number
  • Optional: NetworkPath for a shared folder on the network so that students can roam from computer to computer, where TypeAbility will have access to their records. This path should be surrounded by quotes only if there are spaces in any of the folder paths
  • Each argument is separated from the next one with space

 Here are 2 examples of what to type at the Command-Line. The first one does not have a shared folder on a network, and the second one does:

  • C:\John\Desktop"TypeAbility.exe" JAWS16 5390256
  • C:\Admin\Desktop"TypeAbility.exe" JAWS16 5390256 Z:\JeffersonHigh\StudentData