With Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 3.5, NatSpeak started using Microsoft ActiveX Accessibility to add support for voice access to additional menus and dialogs.  ActiveX Accessibility is a technology originally introduced by Microsoft to allow screen readers (for blind users) to be able to read menus and dialog boxes in Microsoft applications.  However, Dragon NaturallySpeaking has used those same interfaces to voice-enable those applications.

With this feature, it is now possible to control (almost) all menu and dialog boxes in Microsoft Word 97 and other applications in the Microsoft Office 97 suite.  Control of menus and dialogs boxes in Word is the same as in other applications.  Usually you say "Click <menuName> or "Click <controlName>" to activate the named item.

Microsoft ActiveX Accessibility only works in Windows 95 and Windows 98.  It does not work in Windows NT.  Therefore, voice access to menus and dialog boxes in Microsoft Office will not work in Windows NT.