[JAWSLite] Re: New JAWS 8.0 Update Now Live

Read the second or third paragraph of the message. You can't get spell it out more plainly than that. 

Bruce

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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, VaShaun Jones wrote:


Hey I do not understand if these updates are for XP, Vista or both.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan" <allanwkf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: [JAWSLite] New JAWS 8.0 Update Now Live



 thanks Bruce for this update posting.

 Warmest Regards,

 Allan Wong
 3M Technology

 ** If I said something wrong, please forgive me, as English is not my
 native, I'm sorry.

 From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>


 The following is from Freedom Scientific:

 From: Eric Damery
 Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:36 PM

 All,

 We have just posted a new English Update for all JAWS 8.0 customers. It
 is version 8.0.2107.

 This release is for all XP and W2K customers as an official release. For
 our customers with Vista, this is Public Beta 2. It has many things
 addressed but
 the most significant is that JAWS is working at the Login screens and
 with the User Account Control (UAC) security features in Vista. In
 addition, we now
 offer support to the Sidebar and Gadgets feature in Vista and we are
 fantastic now on the start menu in both speech and Braille.

 If anyone has installed one of the previous versions of JAWS that we
 released to the public, they can use the "Check for Updates" feature in
 the Help Menu
 to get this update or they can just download the latest full release
 from the Web and install right over top. Below is the details of the
 enhancements
 in this update.

 Regards,

 Eric Damery

 Enhancements in JAWS Version 8.0.2107 (26 April 2007)

 The following items were addressed in this update:

 JAWS
 . Numerous enhancements were made to improve JAWS performance with
 Windows Vista. See
 What to Know About the JAWS Public Beta in Windows Vista
 for a list of improvements.
 . JAWS is more accurate when navigating or toggling various controls in
 .NET applications.
 . Fixed the issue where JAWS was announcing bad font in several
 applications.
 . JAWS no longer repeats words when using Next Word and Previous Word
 navigation in Microsoft Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Word 2007.
 . JAWS correctly reads all text that appears in the Startup Wizard
 dialog.
 . Corrected the INSERT+F1 help message that is spoken for the radio
 buttons appearing on the Attributes page of the Speech and Sounds
 Manager.
 . When entering the time for a scheduled task, JAWS now announces the
 hours and minutes as you use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS to move through
 the Start Time
 list box.
 . When the SAPI 5 During Say All check box is selected, and you exit and
 reenter the Say All Options dialog in Configuration Manager, JAWS now
 announces
 the name of the check box.
 . When using JAWS and a braille display to read the Freedom Scientific
 Developers Network scripting manual, a flash message no longer appears
 as you navigate
 through the document's many tree view levels.
 . JAWS now correctly shows in braille when multiple user accounts appear
 on the Windows XP Welcome screen.
 . The SAPI 5 voice synthesizer and the Eloquence voice synthesizer no
 longer speak simultaneously when the case sensitive spelling option is
 selected in
 HJPad.
 . When using the Rank Your Computer Knowledge slide bar in HJPad, the
 PAGE UP key now increases the value on the slide bar, and the PAGE DOWN
 key now decreases
 the value on the slide bar.
 . When using the Dot Firmness slide bar, which appears in the Advanced
 Braille Display Options dialog in Braille Options, the PAGE UP key now
 increases
 the slide bar value, and PAGE DOWN decreases the slide bar value.
 . The Control Group Name, Control Name, and Control Type preferences of
 the Verbosity Options dialog now function independently. If you turn one
 off, it
 does not affect the other two settings.
 . Fixed the scripting function StringSegmentIndex.
 . JAWS now speaks the menu items for 16-bit applications. Previously,
 only the access keys were spoken.

 Adobe Acrobat Reader
 . When in Forms mode in a PDF file, JAWS now correctly announces the
 name of the new field as you navigate from one field to the next.
 . In a PDF file, JAWS only announces the color of the text and not the
 page due to Acrobat Reader limitations.

 FSReader
 . An error message now appears if you try to use the Find command
 (CTRL+F) when focus is in the tree view of a DAISY book instead of the
 text area.

 Internet Explorer
 . Resolved an issue for the Social Security Administration where JAWS
 was not correctly moving to subsequent links when using the TAB key to
 navigate a
 Web page table.
 . Made improvements in how JAWS interacts with HTML-based applications
 in non-virtual mode. These adjustments were specifically made for
 Libera, Inc.
 . JAWS successfully handles and reads Ajax-enabled Web pages when using
 Internet Explorer 7.
 . After confirming to close Internet Explorer 7 when multiple tabbed
 pages are open, JAWS no longer announces information from one of the
 open Web pages
 as the browser closes.
 . Frames are now announced when tabbing through a Web page.
 . JAWS now correctly announces when you have changed a search engine in
 Internet Explorer 7.
 . When you first open the Favorites Center (ALT+C), JAWS now announces
 that you must press the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to select an available
 item.

 JAWS and MAGic
 . When JAWS and MAGic run simultaneously, the Alternative Say All
 function now works correctly when you issue the ALT+INSERT+DOWN ARROW
 command.
 . Screen saver and power saving features no longer interrupt Say All
 reading when using JAWS with MAGic.

 Microsoft Excel
 . JAWS is no longer limited to a maximum of nine regions when labeling
 columns and rows as titles in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
 . JAWS correctly announces the contents of merged cells rather than
 indicating that the cells are selected when they are not when you
 navigate out of and
 back into the cells.
 . JAWS correctly speaks different color fonts when using the PC Cursor
 to move around a spreadsheet.
 . JAWS can detect if worksheet cells contain conditional formatting.
 . You can now open a dialog that shows a list of cells containing
 formulas in an Excel worksheet. To do this, press CTRL+SHIFT+EQUALS.
 . If you use the Custom Auto Filter feature in a populated cell, JAWS
 correctly speaks what appears in combo boxes.

 Microsoft Office 2007
 . JAWS now reads the value as you scroll up and down through the history
 of the Help search combo box.

 Microsoft Office 2003
 . The Ask a Question combo box that appears in the Menu bar of Office
 2003 applications is now read correctly by JAWS. Previously, JAWS would
 read the entire
 Menu bar when focus was placed on this combo box.

 Microsoft Outlook 2007
 . JAWS now announces all available access keys when moving through the
 Ribbon of an Office 2007 application.
 . JAWS now correctly announces the controls that appear on the
 Send/Receive Groups dialog.
 . Headers are now announced when Say All is enabled to start when you
 open an e-mail message.

 Microsoft Outlook 2003
 . When in the Rules and Alerts dialog of Outlook 2003, JAWS now only
 announces the name of the tabbed page once instead of twice when you use
 CTRL+TAB to
 switch between pages.
 . JAWS now automatically announces any highlighted item when adding a
 new contact to Outlook 2003.
 . When entering an address that does not appear in the Outlook 2003
 address book, JAWS now announces "no suggestion" when CTRL+K is pressed.

 Microsoft PowerPoint
 . The Virtual Viewer no longer remains active after you close a
 PowerPoint presentation.
 . The CC: field is now announced and shown in braille when e-mailing a
 presentation from within PowerPoint.
 . When exiting a slide show, it is no longer necessary to press ESC
 twice to leave virtual PC Cursor mode. Pressing ESC once closes virtual
 PC Cursor mode
 and returns JAWS to PC Cursor mode.

 Microsoft Word
 . JAWS now uses the same synthesizer voice to indicate horizontal
 movement (for example, an indent or hanging indent) in a line of text.
 Previously, different
 voices were used to indicate an indent (CTRL+M or CTRL+SHIFT+M) and a
 hanging indent (CTRL+T or CTRL+SHIFT+T).
 . JAWS can now use Voice Aliases to distinguish between inserted and
 deleted revisions in a Microsoft Word document. The DeletedTextVoice
 alias is the default
 for deleted text revisions. The InsertedTextVoice alias is the default
 for inserted text revisions.
 . JAWS correctly identifies inserted or deleted text when you use the
 Say Font command (INSERT+F).
 . When you create a table with column headings in Word, JAWS will
 announce the column and row count in addition to the column heading.
 . The default Verbosity setting for Track Changes is now Speak Type
 instead of Off.
 . When navigating through a table using the TAB key or the LEFT and
 RIGHT ARROWS, JAWS will announce the word that appears before the cursor
 when you use
 the Say Word command (INSERT+NUM PAD 5)
 . If you have Spelling and Grammar enabled, JAWS will now consistently
 report that a word is misspelled no matter if you pass by it by one or
 several words
 using the Move to Next Word (INSERT+NUM PAD 6) or Move to Prior Word
 (INSERT+NUM PAD 4).
 . JAWS will now speak numbers that are automatically generated when you
 create a numbered list in Word.

 Mozilla Firefox
 . As you toggle between multiple tabbed pages in Firefox, JAWS announces
 the name of the tabbed page that has focus.

 PAC Mate Desktop
 . Previously, when using PAC Mate Desktop (a program that allows you to
 establish a connection between your PAC Mate and a computer with JAWS
 installed),
 characters entered on a PAC Mate BX were intermittently lost. This no
 longer occurs using the latest JAWS release.

 Windows Live Messenger
 . As you navigate through menus, JAWS now announces when focus is placed
 onto an menu item.

 New items for public beta 2

 . What's new in this public beta?

 This public beta release now supports the User Account Control (UAC)
 security feature in Windows Vista. The purpose of this security feature
 is to stop
 malicious software from secretly installing on your computer. Based on
 user privileges, when an application is installed, UAC shows either
 consent or credential
 (password) dialogs in what is known as Secure Desktop mode.

 JAWS speech and braille is now available when the log on screen or the
 CTRL+ ALT+DEL security screens appear.

 The Automatically Start JAWS option is now available in the Basics
 Dialog with the additional choice of user specific login preferences.

 In Windows Vista, gadgets are desktop applications and tools that
 provide quick visual updates for such items as computer performance,
 weather, time, and
 news feeds. JAWS is constantly reading gadget updates to provide you
 with real time information. For example, when monitoring the CPU meter
 gadget, JAWS
 reports immediate CPU performance rather than an expired snapshot.

 Gadgets appear in an area of the desktop known as the Sidebar. To open
 the Sidebar, do the following:

 . Press WINDOWS Key.
 . Type Sidebar in the Start Search edit field and press ENTER.

 To bring the Sidebar and all gadgets to the foreground, press WINDOWS
 Key+SPACEBAR.

 To cycle forward through Sidebar gadgets, press WINDOWS Key+G.

 To cycle backward through Sidebar gadgets, press WINDOWS Key+SHIFT+G.

 When using and navigating the Start menu, JAWS provides speech and
 braille support for Windows Vista functionality and keeps pace with
 Windows Vista as
 it announces what is happening as the operating system updates the Start
 Menu. This means that when you open the Start menu, JAWS speaks and
 shows in braille
 that the focus is in the Start Search edit field. JAWS also announces
 text that you enter into the edit field and the associated Start Menu
 item.

 For example, when you open the Start menu, JAWS announces Enter Search
 Term. If you type the letters c o n in the search field, Windows Vista
 associates
 this entry with the Control Panel and its associated group, and moves
 its focus to that item. As a result, JAWS announces Programs, which is
 the group,
 Control Panel, which is the item, and then the list index, such as 1 of
 3. This is far superior to what the competition is currently able to do.

 Finally, if you navigate up and down the Start menu, JAWS not only
 announces the highlighted items with speech and braille, but it will
 also announce when
 you enter a new item group and the number of items in that group.

 In Microsoft Outlook 2007, the AutoComplete feature is turned on by
 default. As you enter an e-mail address, Outlook begins to populate the
 To, CC, or
 BCC edit box with suggested e-mail addresses that you have previously
 entered. JAWS now announces these addresses as they appear in the edit
 box.

 JAWS now correctly announces the Volume Slider controls available in
 Windows Vista.

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