Re: a JAWS bug in Excel
- From: "Bob Verity" <rtverity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:16:39 -0600
This is why I do not remove older versions of jaws. On this machine I have
every version from 4.51 to version 9. You just can't trust them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave 'SqueezeBox' Carlson
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: a JAWS bug in Excel
Bob,
I'm both surprised and not surprised. First I never knew about this
capability before you mentioned it and it sure would have made my life easier
if I'd known. However in retrospect I was better off not knowing about it.
I gave it a test run with the Carson instructions and it's a nice feature and
sure does make it easier for sighted users to nest equations.
One more reason why I'm sorry I removed my JAWS 7 and ran with JAWS 8 and now
JAWS 9.
I've even paid for my next SMA, just to show how much I'm hoping that they
will eventually come up with a version that brings more capability with fewer
changes to original functionality.
I have a couple issues with them also with Excel, one of which is that JAWS 9
seems to forget which JSI file is supposed to be in control when I have more
than one spreadsheet open. It's been escalated to their support team.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Verity
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: a JAWS bug in Excel
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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