Animations and Flash Player
If you cannot view the animations you may not have the most recent Flash Player installed for your browser. Not sure? If you don't see a blue speaker icon on the left (you should hear namaste 'greetings' when you click on it) then you need the plug-in.
This plugin is free and is normally downloaded & installed automatically. You can download and install Flash Player manually using the instructions on Adobe's site. Just click on the logo or go directly to Adobe's get-flashplayer site.
If you experience problems viewing flash animations in Microsoft Internet Explorer, try a different browser: Mozilla Firefox. It's free, fast, and it's safe. Click on the logo or this link: Mozilla Firefox. Once you install this browser (it's quick and painless) it will automatically ask you to install the Flash plug-in next time you try to open one.
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files
Get the free Acrobat reader from Adobe. Not sure if you need one? Click HERE; if a new window with a writing exercise for alifu opens up then you already have this plugin. Otherwise click on the logo or go directly to Adobe's get-reader site.
Pop-up windows and JavaScript
If you cannot view the pop-up windows (not sure? Open a test pop-up window by clicking HERE; if it opens you're fine) make sure "enable javascript" is selected in your browser's preferences [show me how], and that you don't have pop-ups blocked for the site. Also, please be aware that if there's more than one pop-up window in a page it is best to close each window before opening the next one.
Windows XP SP2 Active Content Restrictions
If you have downloaded SP2 (Service Pack 2) for Windows XP your Internet Explorer browser is probably warning you every time you access a page with flash animations, PDF files, or any other active content. You can just click on "allow active content" every single time, or you can add this website (http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/sindhi) to your "trusted sites", for which you may set the security level at "low", thus bypassing the constant warnings. If you're not sure how to change your security settings in IE, here are detailed instructions.
Printing Grayscale
Some exercises, such as the writing exercises in the SCRIPT section, require a printout to be used. If your printout does not look like the document on the screen (for example, if the gray dashed lines don't show up properly) you may want to set your printer's properties to print at "best quality" (or whatever other settings work to ensure that the gray outlines are printed).