Luna Presentation.
By Nathan Tech.
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contents:
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1. About Luna Presentation.
2. The settings you can change.
3. The keystrokes you'll want to know.
4. The Audio Positioning feature.
5. Contact and feedback.
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1. About Luna Presentation:
Luna Presentation, as the name may suggest, is a program specifically designed with making access to powerpoint presentations as accessible as possible.
For too long have blind people struggled in classes, in lectures and in work simply trying to access the same resources everyone else is reading.
Why should blind people struggle and fall behind?
Luna Presentation is here to end that gap.
The program splits presentations into two lists:
List 1 is a list of the slides of your presentation.
List 2 is a list of shapes on that slide.
A shape is an item on a slide and can be anything from a text box, to a chart, to a table to an actual shape.
To change things about the shape or to access the content of the shape, hit your context menu or applications key. For all shapes, you can reposition them (move them about on the screen), and delete them. More options are then provided in the context menu depending on what the shape is. For example, if you have a shape with a table in it, the option of "table" will be provided which will open it up for you to navigate.
Similarly, to add shapes, edit things about the slide itself or to access the audio viewer you would use your context key on the slides list.
To add new content to a slide, navigate to said slide in the list and then hit your applications key.
Luna Presentation can be used in two ways based on whether you are using the portable or installer versions.
1. If you open the program without giving it a file, you will be presented with a screen that has four buttons. 1 to create a new presentation, another to open a presentation and the third to access settings. The fourth button is, of course, to exit.
2. Luna Presentation, if you installed it and selected the option, can also open files directly. This skips the above screen, though you can get to it by clicking close from the presentation screen. Don't forget to save!
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2. The settings you can change.
The settings screen can be accessed from the opening screen, that is to say it is a button on the screen you see if you open the program without clicking on a file first.
The settings you can change are as follows:
*Summary: If you enable this, in the second list where slide information is displayed, Luna Presentation will only show "contains text" if a shape has text in it rather than showing you the text.
*Volume: This sets the default volume at which all sounds will play within the program.
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3. The Keystrokes you'll want to know:
Control S: Save.
Control A: Add a slide.
Alt p: Play and pause selected media.
Alt Left and Alt Right: Skip playing media back and forward respectively.
Alt Up and Alt Down: Turn the volume of playing media up and down, respectively.
Control M: Get information about the currently playing media.
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4. The Audio Positioning Feature.
This feature is accessed from the slides list by hitting the context menu key on a slide.
By using sound, this feature is designed to give you as a blind user a rough idea as to where things are positioned on the slide.
You will be told the title of each shape and then two sounds will play at the same time.
the sounds will be played roughly in the top left of the shape and the bottom right of the shape.
The higher the pitch of the sound, the higher it is on the screen.
for example, if you were played two notes, the first one being high pitched and on the left while the second being low pich and on the right, it's safe to assume that shape is dominating the screen and probably needs to be shrunk.
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5. Contact and Feedback.
Found the program useful?
Got a comment or want to suggest something?
Great! I'd love to hear your feedback, even if it is just how you used the program!
Website: https://nathantech.net
Contact: https://nathantech.net/contact.php
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End of Readme.
Last Updated: September 15th 2021.
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Nathan Tech.
It's Not Disability,
It's Ability!