Re: a JAWS bug in Excel

  • From: "Bob Verity" <rtverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:54:47 -0600

Just heard back from Freedom Scientific about this complaint, see below.

John Carsen from their escalations department said that is not broken but they 
changed the way it works.  Well, from a user's standpoint it is broken because 
you now cannot do something that you could easily before.  Carsen says that now 
instead of hitting JAWS key plus 5 on the number row, you can route jaws to pc 
then jaws key 5 then PC cursor.  His attitude was that's the way it is now get 
over it.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Verity 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:59 PM
  Subject: a JAWS bug in Excel


  Starting with JFW 7.10, there has been a bug in JFW with Excel.  When editing 
a formula that has nested functions, JFW does not report the color of the 
parenthesis correctly.  Excel allows 7 levels of nested functions and the color 
of the parenthesis is different for each level.  Starting with JFW 7.10 through 
JFW 9 it reports only black at all levels.  

  This may not be important to most people but it is to me.  They just can't 
update/upgrade without breaking something.

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