Hi GW,
My wife found an interesting bug in JAWS 6.2. She works as a Spanish language interpreter and translator. This means she types Spanish text in Microsoft Word 2000.
When typing text, she likes to turn off the keyboard echo. She did this through the setting in Configuration Manager, and has done it for previous versions of JAWS.
In JAWS 6.2, when typing Spanish text where the access is used, the keyboard echo turns back on automatically, even though it was turned off in Configuration Manager. For example, she typed the name J o s e acute. You can do this in Word by pressing the Control apostrophe and then press the letter e to get the e acute in Spanish. Where typing echo was set off, it is now on. I tested it in Word 2003 running JAWS 6.2 and it does the same thing.
I sent an email to Freedom Scientific about it late yesterday, so hope to hear from them as to what to do. I wanted to post this to the list in case anyone else runs into it and is wondering what is going on. As far as I know, this is the first instance of it happening.
Francis
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