[access-uk] Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:20:22 +0100
Hi,
I am not impressed with jaws 6.* at all.
Reason being that it has screwed up some of the functions that I use
very very regularly almost every minute of the day at work.
Its responsiveness has died when it comes to writing. I always have the
echo set to words. After you've written about 3 or 4 words the echo
fails to be as responsive and so you're writing blind, as it were.
Also I've noticed that my soundcard fails with JAWS 6.2 - I find myself
regularly having to turn my computer off and back on again - it is not
something that can be fixed with a simple unloading of jaws. The braille
works but the speech dies several times a day.
The control+F find function in Internet Explorer - though everso
slightly better than the Find funtion in jaws 6.0 - is nearly useless. I
use this feature very regularly to find words and character strings on a
web page to avoid having to search a whole screen manually. All user
testing of websites I've done with jaws users shows me that lots of
blind people use control+f in this way. Actually every single one of the
people I've tested uses it in this way very frequently throughout the
day. To have it broken and or very badly responsive is bad enough. To
have a find function that, when you hit enter, actually activates a hot
spot on the page and sends you to another page rather than searching
down is a joke. And oftentimes the control+F find function tells me a
string doesn't exist on the page when I know it damn well does.
Grrr.
Is anyone else deeply unimpressed with jaws 6 series? I'm yet to find
anything better in it than jaws 5.
...Damon
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