♦  Apply a zoom rate during zoom slider operation

This setting determines whether you will see zooming happening as you move the slider or if the display will remain the same until you release the slider.

If you turn this check off, the zoom rate does not change while the slider is being moved. A selected zoom rate applies when the slider is stopped.

* No change in screen size until after the slider is released is the initial setting.

♦  Reset a zoom rate to 100%

This button resets the zoom rate to 100%. Press the Done button to reset the screen display size to the original one.

♦  Adjust zoom rate to fit to the screen width

Pressing this "Do" button adjusts the zoom rate to the screen size of your personal computer.

♦  Magnify Reading Text

This setting determines whether you can magnify reading text on the magnification window in the lower portion of the screen.

If you turn this check off, the text being read is not displayed in the magnification window.

* Magnifying reading text in the magnification window is the initial setting.

♦  Set Magnification Window Height

This setting determines how large the magnification window can be.

Click one of the five numbers to select the respective checkbox. You can set up only one number.
Note that this setting works with the previous setting (Text Magnification Size) to determine text magnification sizes.

If you select "None", the magnification window is not displayed. In this case, the Windows taskbar is displayed.

♦  Change Text Magnification Size

This setting determines the number for text magnification.

Click one of the five numbers to select the respective checkbox. You can set up only one number.

* 3 is the initial setting.

♦  Show Text on Popup Window

If you place a checkmark in the checkbox for "Show reading text on popup window", the magnified characters of the text being read are shown on a popup window (in a balloon).

Not to show text on a popup window, uncheck the checkbox.

* When Easy Web Browsing is started for the first time, the check is turned off.

♦  Layout Mode

For the layout of Easy Web Browsing, you can switch between three patterns: "Full screen", "Full screen with toolbars", and "Free layout."

•Full screen

This is the standard layout of Easy Web Browsing. The layout is displayed all over the screen of your personal computer. Scrollbar width is set to "Wide."

•Full screen with toolbars

With this setting, the layout is displayed all over the screen of your personal computer. The Internet Explorer toolbar is displayed under the operation panel. Scrollbar width is set to "Normal."

•Free layout

As Internet Explorer, the layout is displayed in any window size you want. The Windows taskbar and start menu are also displayed. Easy Web Browsing's operation panel and magnification window are displayed in small sizes in the right lower corner. Scrollbar width is set to "No adjustment."

Using the mouse, you can change the sizes and positions of the operation panel and the magnification window. If after being repositioned, the operation panel or the magnification window overlaps with the Windows taskbar or is outside the screen, it is moved to another position when Easy Web Browsing is started again.

If you close the operation panel by pressing the cross mark in the operation panel title bar, you exit Easy Web Browsing. If you close the magnification window by pressing the cross mark in its title bar, "Set magnification window height" is set to "None." By changing this setting, you can again display the magnification window.

* When Easy Web Browsing is started for the first time, "Full screen" is selected.
* After the scrollbar is displayed, you can change its width by resetting the "Scrollbar width" as explained below.

♦  Scrollbar width

This setting determines the width of the scrollbar. You can choose one of three values by clicking on the respective checkbox. You can specify only one value.

(Scrollbar: A knob type portion that appears on the lower right side of the screen when the window is too small to display a whole page)
(Window: An independent and small screen that is prepared at the startup of a program. An image and document are displayed on such screen.)

♦  Pull-down menu expand lines

This setting determines the number of items from a pull-down menu that Easy Web Browsing displays. Choose one of three values by clicking the respective checkbox. You can specify only one value.

(Pull-down menu: A way of displaying various lists such as a list of Tokyo, Hokkaido and other prefectures that is used when addresses are input. If you click a button on the right, lists are displayed.)

* 5 has already been set up at the initial startup of Easy Web Browsing.

♦  Automatically enable speech when it is available.

This setting determines whether speech starts automatically. This is true even when the language is other than the one that was used until speech starts (as can be the case when you move to a page in another language).

* Automatically enabling speech is the initial setting.

♦  Enable speech.

This setting determines whether you want to have speech along with magnification. If you want to use only the text magnification function, de-select the checkbox.

* Enabling speech with magnification is the initial setting.

♦  Display speech function status.

This setting determines whether the Rate and Volume buttons or the Loading Status is displayed. If you choose to display the loading status instead of the buttons, you cannot adjust the rate or the volume.

However, this enables you to confirm the loading status so that you can determine how long you must wait until speech becomes possible. If you want to make an adjustment after moving to another page, de-select the checkbox on that new page to display the rate and volume buttons.

If you invalidate the checkmark for "Enable speech," it is automatically checkmarked.

* The checkmark has already been invalidated at the initial startup of Easy Web Browsing.

♦  Enable Continuous Reading Mode

This setting determines whether sentences, links and such on the open page are read in a consecutive manner. A displayed portion moves in conformity with a speech portion on that page. Do not move the cursor.

If you want to discontinue speech before it finishes, move the mouse to an area where no sentences or such exist on the page. If it still does not stop, right-click the mouse.

When you want to restart speech, move the mouse to the point from which you want to start speech. Speech starts from the paragraph to which the mouse is moved. You cannot start speech from the middle of a paragraph.

* Continuous reading mode is disabled as the initial setting.

♦  Sound Effect

This setting determines the sound pattern you hear. Choose one of three sounds or choose no sound pattern.

* Pattern 1 is the initial setting.

♦  Sound volume

This setting determines how loud sound will be. You can choose from five settings by clicking the respective checkbox. You can specify only one volume value.

* 3 is the initial setting.

♦  Play sound before speech on the hyperlink

This setting determines whether or not a sound will be played before a hyperlink is spoken.

♦  Ruby

A furigana can be attached to a Japanese page.

You can select these 3 types of furigana: "Hiragana", "Katakana", and "Roman." In the case of a Roman alphabet, the furigana of a Roman alphabet is attached not only to a Kanji but to a Kana.

In order not to display a furigana, select "None."

* "None" is the initial setting.

♦  Create a shortcut on the Desktop

This setting determines whether a shortcut for Easy Web Browsing is created on the Desktop.

To create a shortcut, click Do, then click Yes. The shortcut appears as an Easy Web Browsing icon on the Windows Desktop. Double-click the icon to start Easy Web Browsing.

(Desktop: A screen that is displayed when no other program has been started after the startup of Windows.)
( Icon: A mark that is displayed on the Desktop. Each mark represents each program, and you can start up such program by double-clicking (clicking twice quickly) the respective icon. )

♦ Show help

By pressing the "Do" button, you can at any time display the help page explaining how use Easy Web Browsing.

♦  Enable mouse dragging scroll

When the checkbox for "Enable mouse dragging scroll" is checked, you can scroll a displayed page by dragging it with the mouse.

To drag a page, move the mouse to the margin of the page displayed, and move the mouse up are down, right and left, while keeping the left mouse button pressed. The page scrolls as if being dragged by the movement of the mouse.

You can disable this function by unchecking the checkbox.

* The checkbox is checked when Easy Web Browsing is started for the first time.

♦  Selecting an item to change

Click the button that represents the setting you want to change.

* Style is the initial selection.

♦  Exiting from the setting

Click Finish after all settings have the values you want.

The setting selected for each item is immediately reflected in Easy Web Browsing. Also, such setting is retained even after the page is moved; there is no need to save that setting.

♦  Resetting all the setting default values

To reset all the setting changes to the values initially set up for Easy Web Browsing, click the Setting button to open the Settings panel. Then, click Default.

All settings, including Rate, Volume, Out, Slider, In, and Style, are reset to default.

This operation resets settings to the default values. If you want to reset values to those of preceding conditions, but not initial settings, you must reset these individually.

♦  Moving the settings panel

You can move the Settings panel anywhere that Easy Web Browsing is displayed.

Move the panel by clicking in an area other than a button or tag on the Settings panel.

* The position of the settings panel after being moved is not saved. The next time Easy Web Browsing is started, the settings panel is displayed at its original position.

♦  Changing the size of the settings panel

You can freely change the size of the Settings Panel.

To change the size of the Settings Panel, move the mouse close to a corner of the settings panel, and change the panel to the size you want while keeping the left mouse button pressed (mouse dragging operation).

* The changed size information is not saved. The next time Easy Web Browsing is started, the settings panel is displayed in its original size.

♦  Using the Keyboard with the Settings Panel (Please read this section only if you want to manipulate the buttons via the keyboard.)

You can use the following keys to work with settings listed on the
Settings panel. Note that you cannot use the Shift + Tab key combination to go backward to previous selections.

• With respect to an item for which a square box is to be checked, you can check or uncheck the box by pressing the space key when the box is chosen.

* Please note that the Enter key cannot be used.

• Use the Left or Right Arrow to select or unmark a choice represented by a radio button (circular choice).
• To press the "Do" button, press the Enter key or the space key when the "Do" button is chosen.
• To select "Yes" or "No" in the creation of a start icon, make the selection using the Tab key or the right and left arrow keys.
• If selected, the "Finish" or "Default" button will be surrounded by an orange frame. While the button is selected, press the Enter key or the space key.

* In the Settings panel, you cannot make a selection in the reverse order, that is, pressing the Tab key while holding down the Shift key.