[JAWSLite] Re: Fw: JAWS 9.0 update to build 2152 English Version being released later today!

Don't suppose anyone's tried IE 8 yet?---- Original Message ----
From: Rick Harmon
To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:37 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: Fw: JAWS 9.0 update to build 2152 English
Version being released later today! 

| Support for the beta of IE8, fixes to office 2007 problems and other
| fixes here and there.  It's not a huge update but probably worth
| installing I'd say.  It's installed here on both my XP and Vista
| machine and all seems ok so far.   
| 
| Rick
| 
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: NANCY M HILL
| To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:22 PM
| Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: Fw: JAWS 9.0 update to build 2152 English
| Version being released later today! 
| 
| 
| Rick,
| 
| It talks so much about the Braille updates...for which I am glad for
| the Braille users, what does this update  do that isn't Braille
| related?  
| 
| Thanks for helping me understand.
| 
| Nancy
| 
| girlyscream@xxxxxxxxxxx
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Rick Harmon
| To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:11 PM
| Subject: [JAWSLite] Fw: JAWS 9.0 update to build 2152 English Version
| being released later today! 
| 
| 
| Was asked to pass this along:
| 
| Rick
| 
| ----- Original Message -----
| Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:38 PM
| Subject: FW: JAWS 9.0 update to build 2152 English Version being
| released later today! 
| 
| 
| Hi Rick,
| I know that people on the lists are finding the build now and
| downloading it, I also want to make sure that people get the write up
| about it which they often over look. I extracted the changes since
| build 552 out of the What's New Page and posted below. If you can,
| please post to the JAWS user list.    
| Regards,
| Eric
| 
|  Below is the list of enhancements coming in JAWS 9.0.2152 since the
| build 552 was released in February. 
| 
| Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Support
| Unicode Braille Tables Update
| The Unicode braille tables in JAWS (JBT files) support multi-cell
| braille characters. A multi-cell character is a braille character
| that requires more than one braille cell on your braille display.
| This feature may be of interest to individuals who use math, science,
| and language symbols.    
| Braille Study Mode
| Braille Study Mode is a training tool for teaching and learning
| braille. It works exclusively with Freedom Scientific PAC Mate 20-
| and 40-cell braille displays and FOCUS 40- and 80-cell braille
| displays. When enabled, JAWS will announce the braille character in a
| display cell when you press the Cursor Routing button immediately
| above that cell. When you press the Navrow button (located behind the
| Cursor Routing button), JAWS will announce and spell the braille
| word.       
| Braille Study Mode is off by default. To start it, do the following:
| Make sure that a PAC Mate Portable Braille Display, FOCUS 40, or
| FOCUS 80 braille display is attached to your computer. 
| Do one of the following:
| 
| 
| Press CTRL+INSERT+B to open the Adjust Braille Options dialog box, or
| Press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Options dialog box.
| Press S until Study Mode appears, and then press SPACEBAR to toggle
| Study Mode on. Braille Study Mode remains on until toggled off or
| until JAWS is restarted.  
| Braille Study Mode: On-the-Fly Access using WHIZWHEELS
| When Braille Study Mode is off, you can always press the braille
| display's left or right WHIZWHEEL together with either a Cursor
| Routing or Navrow button to briefly use Braille Study Mode
| functionality. This clever operation gives you the same braille
| information without having to turn on Braille Study Mode. To use
| Braille Study Mode on the fly, do one of the following:     
| Press WHIZWHEEL+CURSOR ROUTING to make JAWS announce the braille
| character in the display cell, or 
| Press WHIZWHEEL+NAVROW to make JAWS announce and spell the braille
| word. 
| Note: JAWS returns to normal operation after announcing the braille
| character or word. 
| Citrix Program Neighborhood
| JAWS 9.0 supports Citrix Program Neighborhood® 10.
| Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
| JAWS 9.0 now supports the creation and presentation of PowerPoint
| 2007 slide shows in Vista and XP. 
| USB Thumb Drive Update
| The updated USB thumb drive versions of JAWS 9.0 and MAGic 11.0 are
| now available. You can now use both products together or individually
| on the same thumb drive. In addition, the video intercept tool has
| been consolidated to work with both screen reader and screen
| magnification applications. This tool can be downloaded and stored on
| the thumb drive and easily executed on computers where the Video
| intercept is not already installed.      
| Talking Mouse Support
| The MAGic Mouse Echo feature is now available when running MAGic 11.0
| and JAWS 9.0 together. This means that JAWS reads text that you point
| to with the mouse. To customize this feature, open the MAGic Speech
| menu and choose Mouse Echo. Note that you will need to have the
| latest update of MAGic 11 installed to take advantage of this
| feature. This MAGic update is scheduled to post on April 28, 2008.   
| DAISY Book Addition
| A new DAISY book is available. It describes how to create accessible
| forms in Microsoft Excel by using input messages and hyperlinks to
| provide useful feedback to JAWS and MAGic users.  
| 
| The following reported items were addressed during the April 2008,
| build 2152 update. Please see the JAWS 9 Page for the complete list
| of changes in JAWS 9 since it was first released in November 2007.  
| JAWS
| If you change the value of the Braille Mode option from Structured to
| Line, JAWS now maintains this option's setting when you move between
| different dialog boxes.  
| Skim Reading (CTRL+INSERT+DOWN ARROW) operates correctly when reading
| the Surf's Up! - Surfing the Internet with JAWS Web page tutorial on
| the Freedom Scientific Web site.  
| The JAWS shared components correctly update if you perform a Windows
| system restore after updating JAWS using the Check for Updates
| feature.  
| After changing the synthesizer language from American English to
| another language, JAWS now correctly echoes text in the selected
| language as it is typed and reads text in the same selected language
| as you navigate using ARROW keys.   
| JAWS now states if new lines are present in Word, Notepad, or WordPad
| documents when you perform a Say All. To enable this functionality,
| select the check box titled Indicate new lines when User Reads Text
| Containing New Line Characters. It is located in the Text Processing
| dialog box of the Configuration Manager.    
| JAWS correctly reads the text in the Remove Scripts dialog box and no
| longer announces incorrect messages. This dialog appears when you
| synchronize the default script file using Script Manager.  
| JAWS can be authorized when performing ILM Authorization on a system
| with Windows Vista® Server. 
| Resolved an issue where a "canvas" error message was appearing in
| certain cases during the update process of JAWS. 
| The SAPI 5 synthesizers recognize and speak blank lines that appear
| in Word documents. 
| If you select a command from the Virtual Viewer (INSERT+H), such as a
| list of misspelled words (ALT+SHIFT+L) or list of footnotes
| (INSERT+SHIFT+F), JAWS correctly identifies the selected items for
| multiple applications.   
| The Language Detect Change reading option for JAWS, Internet
| Explorer, and Word configuration files is now enabled by default. 
| The JAWS uninstall process now removes all files from the JAWS User
| Settings folder when the user selects this option during an
| uninstall.  
| JAWS no longer applies the wrong Eloquence voice settings, such as
| person, rate, pitch and so on, when you switch between different
| languages using CTRL+WINDOWS KEY+L.  
| The default synthesizer setting no longer changes when you
| temporarily switch from an Eloquence voice to a SAPI 5 voice using
| CTRL+INSERT+S.  
| .NET Applications Complied with Visual Studio 2005
| Dialog boxes created using Visual Studio 2005, will now read
| correctly when using the INSERT+B command. 
| When moving in dialogs that contains GroupBoxes, INSERT+TAB will now
| report information about that control. Also, any AccessibleName or
| AccessibleDescription tags associated with the GroupBox will be
| spoken as well.   
| Adobe Acrobat
| MAGic now correctly highlights the cursor location when you use the
| ARROW keys to navigate around a PDF file while running JAWS and MAGic
| together.  
| After reading a table in an Acrobat document, JAWS correctly reads
| the remainder of the file when using the DOWN ARROW to continue
| reading down the page. JAWS no longer announces blank and rereads the
| table contents as in previous releases.   
| JAWS correctly announces blank if you enter a blank table cell in a
| PDF document. 
| JAWS correctly announces items just once as you move through the
| Navigation tabs in a PDF document. 
| AOL Instant Messenger
| JAWS reads emoticon graphics using both speech and braille.
| Microsoft Internet Explorer
| JAWS runs correctly with the Web site www.thehindu.com.
| JAWS correctly reads headings in pages created using the Movable Type
| blogging platform. 
| When pressing the Navigation Quick Key D while viewing a Web page,
| JAWS correctly announces and moves to the next element every time. 
| JAWS now announces and moves to the next button on a Web page when
| you press B. 
| The Move to Prior Anchor keystroke (SHIFT+A) works correctly.
| Microsoft Office
| When navigating through the Options dialog box of an Office 2007
| application, JAWS now correctly reads all dialog controls. 
| Microsoft Outlook
| Resolved a reported Outlook issue where JAWS did not read the correct
| task priority when it was changed from low to high. 
| The localized German version of JAWS now recognizes and correctly
| reads words with umlauts when using the Outlook calendar. 
| JAWS only announces once, instead of three times, the contexts of
| combo boxes in Outlook's Find dialog box. 
| After inserting a signature into an e-mail message, JAWS now returns
| focus to the message window instead of the Signature button submenu. 
| JAWS moves its focus to the correct field if you copy text from an
| e-mail message that you are composing, and then press SHIFT+TAB to
| move from the message window to the Subject field.  
| As you navigate through folders in Outlook, JAWS now announces the
| number of unread messages in each folder. 
| Fixed a reported issue in Outlook where subject field text containing
| an ampersand (&), was not being read correctly. 
| JAWS now announces the status of the check boxes for Automatic
| Formatting rules in Outlook 2007 Calendar. 
| You can successfully forward Yahoo! Group messages.
| JAWS announces all submenus when using Outlook 2007 Calendar.
| JAWS properly moves its focus to the Reminder dialog box when you
| press INSERT+WINDOWS KEY+R. In addition, JAWS announces the title of
| the Reminder dialog box when it gains focus.  
| Microsoft PowerPoint
| JAWS no longer reads the last slide that is shown after you close a
| PowerPoint presentation. 
| JAWS reads the text in the Notes pane of a slide when using the UP
| and DOWN ARROWS. 
| When in Edit mode, JAWS now reads the selected text in a slide when
| you press CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW. 
| When editing text in a slide's Title Placeholder box, JAWS correctly
| announces text and deleted characters. This resolves an issue with
| caret tracking in PowerPoint slides.  
| While using the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS to move through lines of text
| in a placeholder box, JAWS no longer announces blank when it
| encounters a space between words.  
| JAWS announces character echo correctly and no longer says blank when
| using BACKSPACE to delete text. 
| JAWS correctly reads numbered list when using the UP and DOWN ARROWS
| to scroll through the list while in Edit mode. 
| JAWS correctly announces characters when you press INSERT+UP ARROW
| twice quickly to spell the current line or press NUMPAD 5 twice
| quickly to say the current character phonetically.  
| The Say All command (INSERT+DOWN ARROW) operates correctly when
| editing a slide. 
| Microsoft Word
| When the Page, Section, and Multiple Column Breaks option is off in
| Microsoft Word, JAWS no longer announces any page breaks that are
| manually inserted in a Word document. This is the proper operation
| for this configuration.   
| JAWS correctly detects comments, footnotes, and endnotes after you
| change the Comments, Footnotes, and Endnotes Detection option from
| On+Count to On.  
| JAWS now recognizes bullets in Word documents when you set the
| Eloquence synthesizer to a language other than American English or
| British English.  
| The WordClassic scheme is new to the Speech and Sounds Manager in
| Word. It is the default scheme. In a document containing superscript
| and subscript text, JAWS now ignores and no longer says the words
| superscript or subscript when announcing this text.   
| JAWS no longer announces blank when you use the Navigation Quick Key
| C to move to the next comment in a Word document. 
| There is no longer a noticeable delay when you navigate by TAB or
| SHIFT +TAB through a Word document or when you perform a Say All. 
| Resolved a Word issue where JAWS was not announcing tab and paragraph
| marker characters. 
| JAWS now announces blank if you try to move to the next paragraph or
| item (CTRL+DOWN ARROW) when you are at the end of the document. 
| When the Non-Breaking Symbols Indication option is enabled in Word,
| JAWS correctly announces any non-breaking spaces encountered when
| reading the document.  
| Mozilla Firefox
| JAWS no longer announces the message Read Only when moving through
| items such as combo boxes, tree views, and edit boxes or when opening
| Web pages using Firefox.  
| JAWS is compatible with Firefox 3 beta.
| The PC Cursor no longer becomes active when you select Firefox from
| the Window List dialog box (INSERT+F10). 
| Headings that are also links on Web pages are now properly identified
| in braille when the Braille Mode option is set for Structured mode. 
| 
| Mozilla Thunderbird
| JAWS correctly identifies command submenus when navigating up or down
| in the Thunderbird menu bar. 
| Notepad
| JAWS correctly announces number-letter combinations when navigating
| by word through a Notepad file. 
| Sun Java
| A temporary loss of speech no longer occurs after selecting a command
| from the menu bar in a Java application. Previously, you had to
| refresh the screen (INSERT+ESC) to regain speech.  
| Winamp
| Shuffle mode now toggles on or off when your press the letter S while
| in the Winamp playlist editor of the Winamp Classic or Winamp Modern
| skins.  
| Windows Explorer
| Fixed a reported issue in Windows Explorer where file names that
| contained an ampersand (&), were not being read correctly. 
| End of list.

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