[access-uk] Re: Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap

Well done Sunil for putting it so eloquently. It could be a whole variety of factors.
Brian Hartgen
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap


Because the problems he's having just might not have anything to do with
JFW? It could be something else on his system interfering with Jaws and
preventing it from doing its excellent job...JAWS RULES, OK.



-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Beasley
Sent: 25 July 2005 13:41
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap


Why not try Window-eyes
----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap


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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