[bcab] Re: JAWS and Tabs

HI Kevin,
 
I don't know of any way of setting JAWS to automatically check for
updates.  Thee may be a newsletter or something you can subscribe to, to
get this information.  I just check every week or two by running the
"Check for updates" option in the Help menu.  Having said this however,
this doesn't always seem to work, as when I checked the Freedom
Scientific site in late January, I found that there had been a patch
update (to version .519) which hadn't been recognised when I ran "Check
for updates".
 
Regards,
 
Tim


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        Subject: [bcab] Re: JAWS and Tabs
        
        

        Hi Tim 
        
        Is there a way of being alerted to new builds of JAWS being made
available. 
        
        Cheers 
        
        Kevin 
        
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        Hi Mel,
        
        I have also found JAWS 9 to be a bit of a step back in some
respects,
        though as always, there are also some improvements.  I've found
that the
        stability, and its support of Word has improved with recent
patch
        updates.  The latest is version 9.0.552.  So if you installed
yours from
        the distribution CD, its worth checking which version you have,
and if
        necessary updating.
        
        I don't have any experience of the application you mention, but
it would
        be worth going back to the supplier/manufacturer and asking them
to
        justify their claims of accessibility.  I've certainly found in
a couple
        of cases, that things which work in JAWS 8, were broken in JAWS
9, so it
        may be that they genuinely did get it working with an earlier
version.
        Alternatively, they may have some scripts which make things
easier. 
        
        Regards,
        
        Tim Pennick
        
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        > From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        > [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mel Spooner
        > Sent: 31 January 2008 08:55
        > To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        > Subject: [bcab] JAWS and Tabs
        > 
        > 
        > Hi All,
        > 
        > 
        > This is where I show myself up as not being very conversant 
        > with the more advanced features of JAWS.  I'm now required to 
        > use a product called ServiceCenter 6 which, according to its 
        > developers, is accessible with JAWS.  Well, I'm not sure what 
        > they've done with the accessibility, but it clearly isn't 
        > without a lot of tweaking.
        > 
        > 
        > One thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of tabs on any 
        > given page and there are items such as read only fields 
        > included in the tab order.  Is there a way of making JAWS 9 
        > ignore some of the tabs in a given tab order?
        > 
        > 
        > Personally, I've only just installed JAWS 9 and on first 
        > impression, it seems very unstable.  Is this the case, or am 
        > I missing something?
        > 
        > 
        > Finally, if David Boden is reading this, are you too required 
        > to use ServiceCenter 6 by the council, and if so, how are you 
        > approaching it?
        > Maybe two heads could be better than one on this one.
        > 
        > 
        > Mel
        > 
        > 
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