Guide v6 launches in North America
Play games, improve your typing, smoother magnification and more
8th Mar, 2011
Dolphin Guide version 6 is now immediately available for North American customers and includes a host of new games, new support for popular file formats as well as some brilliant improvements to make computing even simpler! Download a trial today to experience simple talking computing for yourself!
Perfect for seniors with sight loss, or people with blindness or low vision that are new to computers, Dolphin Guide is easy to learn. Email friends and family, read your own mail, surf the web and more, Guide keeps it simple, with step-by-step choices that guide you through to guaranteed computer success.
New in Guide version 6
Learn to type with Guide
Dolphin Guide's brand new typing tutor is fully accessible and, with 16 lessons, it is designed for the total beginner through to the more advanced keyboard user. It lets you practise as often or as much as you like. Using an accuracy measure, to gauge your progress and improve you computing experience, the Typing Tutor encourages you to improve by offering achievable progression.
Play games with Guide
Your computer doesn't have to be all work and no play! Dolphin Guide v6 now includes a suite of games for your entertainment; and, just like the rest of Guide, all the games are simple to use and fully accessible for users with little or no sight. Try:
Classic Hangman - Guess the word within 10 attempts. Choose from 4 different levels of difficulty. We've also included a hint feature for those really difficult words!
Kountdown - Given 6 numbers and a target value, you have to add, multiply, divide and subtract the numbers to reach the target total. Choose from 4 different levels of difficulty.
Anagram - Re-arrange the letters to find the jumbled word. Choose from 4 different levels of difficulty. If you get really stuck, you can even cheat and let Guide show you the answer.
Read PDFs with Guide
Guide's PDF viewer and reader makes it much easier to read and save PDF documents and search through them, while all the text is read out to you and magnified. Plus Guide will automatically load the third party PDF document reader onto your computer if you don't already have it available on your PC.
Traditionally, PDF documents don’t allow you to take (cut or copy) the text or images to another application. However, for some Guide users, this simply isn't convenient. Version 6 also includes a handy new import feature that makes it possible to move all the information within the PDF, directly into Guide's easy to use word processor. From there you can read, make changes, merge, print and more; and all in an environment that you are already familiar with.
Open & read Word's docx files with Guide
Guide Version 6 can now open and read the latest docx documents sent by friends and family who use Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2010.
Smoother magnification on the web with Guide
Version 6 of Guide now makes surfing the web even easier thanks to new enhanced magnification that delivers perfectly magnified words and pictures, crystal clear and with smooth edges. Now compatible with a wider range of web pages than ever before, version 6 will read and magnify more complex and graphical pages as well interactive websites.
'Easy-Reply-Mode' for quicker email with Guide
When you want to send an email it can be really frustrating to have to go through loads of steps just to write a reply. In Dolphin Guide v6, replying to emails has now been simplified with the new default 'easy-reply mode' that reduces the number of steps involved when writing a reply.
Read the complete list of what's new in Guide version 6
Contact your North American Guide dealer
Your Low Vision Store (for California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington state)
EVAS (All other states)
