Hi
I am afraid I am not allowed to answer that question until the jaws 8.0
is available.
Sorry about that.
-----Original Message-----
From: blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allison Mervis
Sent: 15 October 2006 18:10
To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindipod] Re: Jaws compatibility with iTunes 7
Will Jaws 8.0 be supported once it is released? Thanks!
Allison
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On Behalf Of Brian Hartgen
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:15 AM
To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindipod] Jaws compatibility with iTunes 7
Hi
Following my announcement on Friday about the new update to the iTunes
scripts, I want to write a few lines about the JAWS version
compatibility with the new upgrade and a further note about iTunes in
general. This and other information will be posted to my Blog near to
the release date of the scripts.
First, the general note. We have noticed that the interface for
controlling and managing music on an iPod Nano or Mini is completely
different now than the interface to support the iPod Shuffle. This
makes things quite tricky from our perspective but manageable.
Now to JAWS. Most of the last few days has been spent carrying out
exhaustive tests with and without the scripts using different versions
of jaws on different machines. What we can say as a result is that
iTunes 7 and our interface will be compatible with jaws 5.0, 6.0, 6.20
and 7.0, not 5.10, 6.10 and disappointingly 7.10.
When we started this iTunes project, (I think about 18 months ago), we
had a problem with jaws 5.10 in that using the jaws cursor was not
reliable enough within the iTunes application. Most crucially, routing
jaws to PC was not reliable enough, because jaws thinks that there is
additional highlighted information on the screen other than what is
selected and, in addition, informs you of characters which simply do not
exist.
Well the problem is back big time in 7.10. I have given Freedom
Scientific lots of detailed information about this problem. But because
of the inaccessibility generally of iTunes (which has considerably
worsened in 7.0 especially with the new Nano functionality), we have to
use the jaws cursor to do a lot of the work, and if that's not working
reliably then we may as well stop. We cannot support something which is
not reliable.
All the jaws versions I have listed in this message which we do support
are working in the way we would expect.
In summary, we are not letting this hold up production of the scripts.
The reality is now that if you buy a new iPod, you have to use iTunes 7.
I also understand that Rockbox no longer supports the new range of
iPods, and so we have to have something which works as good as we can
get it.
I think our new internet update facility will help a lot as well, since
we can easily remedy difficulties which may be present on other
machines, assuming we can duplicate them of course. The idea is that
you will go to the start menu, programs, iTunes Accessible Interface,
Check for Updates.
We then go out onto the internet and check for updates and you can
download them. Just to reiterate, where we correct a problem which
exists, that is a free update.
Brian Hartgen
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