RE: JFW and Office xp?
- From: "Carolyn S. Barker" <barkerb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:29:00 -0500
I have to agree with Ed on this one. I am running Office XP under
Windows 2000. When I have Outlook and several Word documents opened at
the same time, JAWS 5 will either read inaccurately (can't navigate
tables, get font information, read current line of text) in Word or will
get stuck in a pane of Outlook (like the folders pane, and there is no
way to get to the list of messages or even to close Outlook). Then, I
have to unload and reload JAWS to recover. Now, since I was previously
running Office 2000 and JAWS 4.51, I am not sure if all the problems are
JAWS 5. Also, I notice a long wait plus a lot of disk activity when
closing the last Word document before JAWS announces the application
that now has the focus. I am assuming this is a lot of cleanup being
performed by Word or JAWS when Word is finally closed, and I am not sure
I remember this with JAWS 4.51 and Word 2000.
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Edward Marquette
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2:36 AM
To: 'jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: JFW and Office xp?
I have been using JAWS with Office XP for over a year and a half. In
fact, I was an Office XP user before I became a JAWS user. Because my
firm makes extensive use of MS Word's tables, track changes, styles, and
screen colors, there really is no other choice. There is no screen
reader other than JAWS, to my knowledge, that allows a blind user to use
Office XP and these features. I need to be precise, however, because not
all versions of JAWS are created equal. Version 4.51, in my experience,
is vastly superior to JAWS 5.0. Something is wrong, I think, with the
5.0 video drivers, as many on this list have experienced. JAWS 5.0
gives inaccurate screen information, skips lines, and otherwise behaves
erratically, particularly in Office XP. Thus, if you are thinking about
Office XP, to be safe, be sure you are using JAWS 4.51 and not 5.0. I
am hoping JAWS 5.1 will fix the 5.0 problems. Good luck.
Ed Marquette
930 West 34th St.
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 561- 7111
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Francis Daniels
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:27 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JFW and Office xp?
I'm using JAWS with Office XP 2002 and it works fine. I had some
adjusting to do when I switched from Office 97 to 2000, but that's
another story. It was a training thing, not the way JAWS works.
Francis
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