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The effect of the rotor depends on what you’re doing. For example, if you’re reading text in an email you received, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or character-by-character when you flick up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, use the rotor to choose whether you hear text word-by-word or character-by-character, hear just the headers, hear just the links (all of them, visited links, or links not yet visited), hear form elements, or hear descriptions of images. In other words, you can use the rotor setting to hear all the text, or to jump from one element to another of a certain type, such as headers or links.

Rotor options depend on the context of what you’re doing.

Reading text

•Select and hear text character-by-character

•Select and hear text word-by-word

Browsing a webpage

•Select and hear text character-by-character

•Select and hear text word-by-word

•Select and hear headers

•Select and hear links

•Select and hear form controls

•Select and hear visited links

•Select and hear links not visited

•Select and hear images

•Select and hear static text

•Zoom in or out

Entering text

•Move insertion point and hear text character-by-character

•Move insertion point and text word-by-word

•Text editing functions

•Auto-text

Using a control (such as the spinner for setting the time in Clock)

•Select and hear value character-by-character

•Select and hear value word-by-word

•Adjust the value of the control object

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