Windows 8 In Depth

Narrator

Narrator is a screen reader application that describes the contents of the Windows screen in a synthesized voice. To activate it, use the Windows Logo+Enter keyboard shortcut. Alternatively, search the Start screen for narrator and select it from the Apps list.

By default, Narrator reads the contents of any window when you activate it—that is, when it becomes the topmost window. It will also describe what’s under the mouse pointer as you move it. As Narrator reads menus and dialog box controls, the input focus follows along so that you can press the spacebar to trigger the most recently described pushbutton, check box or radio button, or you can type to enter text into the most recently described input field.

Be forewarned, though, that ...