Button Settings

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Change Button Settings

  1. Select Menu > Editor.

  2. Select Edit and choose the button you want to modify.

  3. Select the Settings tab on the left.

  4. Select the Content Button Settings tab.

    The Edit Button is shown with the Settings tab selected on the left and the Content Button Settings tab selected at the top of the window.  

    Important: If you select the Button Types tab and then select Word Prediction or Morphological Prediction, these content button settings cannot be selected.

Message

Choose whether or not the message text will be displayed in the message window. When toggled ON , the text will be displayed. When toggled OFF , the text will not be displayed. Select Finished and select Save.

Speech

Choose whether or not the message text will be spoken. When toggled ON , the text will be spoken. When toggled OFF , the text will not be spoken.

Always Show Button Label

Choose whether or not the label will always be displayed. When toggled ON , the label will always be displayed. When toggled OFF , the label will not always be displayed.

Alternate Pronunciation

Change the pronunciation of the message.

  1. Select the Alternate Pronunciation field. The keyboard will open.

  2. Enter phonetic spellings for the words in the message.

  3. Select Finished to display the text in the Alternate Pronunciation field. Select the play the Next icon icon to hear the words.

  4. Select Finished and select Save to save the phonetic pronunciation.

Alternate Prompt

If you are using auditory prompts, change the text that is spoken when the button is selected.

  1. Select the Alternate Prompt field. The keyboard will open.

  2. Enter the text you want spoken.

  3. Select Finished to display the text in the Alternate Prompt field. Select the play  the Next icon icon to hear the prompt.

  4. Select Finished and select Save to save the prompt.


Reset a Button to Default Settings

When you want to remove all the changes you have made to a vocabulary button and return it to its original state, use the Reset Button feature to restore the button to its factory defaults.

Important: If the button was linked, resized, swapped, cut, or copied, only that button will be restored to it original state. To restore the related buttons, reset each one individually.

To reset a button to its factory defaults:

  1. Select Menu > Editor.

  2. Select Edit and choose the button you want to reset. The Edit Button window will open.

  3. Select the Settings tab.

  4. Select Reset Button.

    Note: When Reset Button displays a light gray background, Reset Button is not available. This indicates that the button you selected is already at its default settings.

  5. Select Okay at the conformation prompt, and then select Save. “Successfully saved” will appear, and the button will be restored to its factory defaults.