DynaVox M3: Quick Start Guide
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Section 3: Software Overview
Terms You Should Know
This
Quick Start
guide uses some basic computer terms and vocabulary that is unique to your M3 device. It
is important that you take a few minutes to become familiar with these terms and their meanings. Reviewing
this section now will make it easier for you to learn about your M3 device.
Communication Pages
For the M3 device, the primary communication tools are pages. These can be designed and customized to
meet your unique physical, visual and communicative needs.
Page
- A page contains a collection of buttons that represent words, phrases, sentences, behaviors
or links to other pages. A page covers the entire touch screen below the title bar.
Pages can feature various components:
Message Window
- The Message Window is an area on a page where a text or symbol message
can be composed. The size and location of the Message Window may vary, but moving from page
to page will not delete or alter its contents.
Tab Control
- Tab controls are used to navigate between multiple layers of buttons on a page.
These layers are called panes. The top of each pane features a tab. A pane is displayed whenever
its tab is selected. There can be up to four panes in a set of tab controls.
Button
- A button is a graphic object on a page that can be selected with a touch, a mouse click or
other input device. It may represent a behavior, a word or even several sentences. A button may
feature a text label and/or a symbol, and can be programmed to enact specific behaviors when it is
selected. There are several different kinds of buttons:
Symbol Button
- This button usually features a symbol and a label. It can be used for
communication (with a Play a Recording or Insert Button behavior) or as a command button.
Assigning behaviors to a symbol button enables it to perform tasks like speaking, playing a
recorded sound or performing an infrared command.
Go To Button
- This type of button includes a Go to Page behavior. Go To buttons are used
to link one page to another.
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