Hi Chris,
Wow, considering this was touted to be released just after last
year's Sight
Village, they've come a long way.
I went to a seminar on this beastie, and it was a complete waste of
time.
They had only a German version, and none of us could even run it,
unless we
knew German well.
Look at the version number? 9.1 and it hasn't even done anything yet?
I can see GW and FS quaking in their shoes about this screen
reader<Smile>.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
chris hallsworth
Sent: Friday 16 July 2010 19:27
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] For all Cobra users, please read
Hello all,
I have received the following from the makers of Cobra Screen reader,
Baum.
Hello Customers,
We thank you for the interest in COBRA.
As a Preview of COBRA 9.1 you can now download COBRA 9.1 Release
Candidat 3
at
<http://download.baum-retec.info/pms/cobra/cobra91rc3.exe>
COBRA 9.1 RC3 has complete english installation and also the user
interface
is completely in english.
Like the name tells, this is not a release but after a week beta test
of our
testers there are no major bugs other than you can read below.
Further down you'll also findwhat was changed in this version.
As you can read below there are some things we have to do before the
release
of COBRA 9.1.
We hope to have a 9.1 Release in August this year.
The current state of the english manual is available at
<http://www.baum.de/cobra/help?lid=1033>
Please read chapter 3.6 using COBRA Explorer to learn about using
Internet
Explorer, FireFox and Adobe Reader with COBRA.
New in COBRA 9.1 RC 3 in comparison to 9.1 RC 2
Winword:
- in a table: if you selected to speak only the selected table cell
and if
you go up and down to a new line COBRA will now speak only the
selected cell
- cursor positioning onn spaces in Word 2010 in page layout optimized
- recognizing of wavi underlines (wave underlines under misspelled
words) for
Word 2010 optimized
this is only possible at the moment when in OSM.INI
"SetWordAlternateDisplayMethod=1"
is set to 1
Outlook:
- empty folders will presented as empty again
- spelling of misspelled word optimized
- when you open a HTML mail in outlook 2010 the cursor will now be
taken to
the mail correctly
- the hotkeys of the elements in the ribbon of Outlook 2010 will now be
presented correctly
- in Outlook 2010 you can now see the list of the reccommended e-mail
adresses of to, cc and bcc field
- correction of tracking of the reccommended e-mails in Outlook
2003/2007
- reliable focussing of attachments in Outlook 2007/2010
- an entry of the hotfolders list can now be deleted by pressing DEL
key
- with 0+6, CTRL
7 you can now set the current folder as start folder for the search for
unread mails.
The existing function show list of unread mails will now start at the
selected start folder and will search recursively for unread mails in
this
folder and all of its subfolders.
In this list the path to the current folder will also be presented.
With 0+6, Shift+7 you can select, if this path should be spoken or not
Excel:
- cursor echo in editing a cell (F2) is now working correct
- when you repead the last function with F4 and the content of the
current
cell is changed the braille display will also be updated
BrailleServer:
- you can now use the braille input keys of a Handy Tech braille
display to
enter text
- if contracted braille (Grade 1 or 2) is selected you can select
from the
following options in Braille, Braille settings:
- mode * contract the word at the cursor
* don't contract the word at the cursor, show it in Computerbraille
(expanded)
* expand the word to the right, the word is contracted till the
cursor and
from there it is expanded
COBRA-Explorer:
- if edit mode is active it will no longer come to leave the edit
mode by
accidentt.
- better detection and presenting of labels in forms
- problem with invisible formular elements in Internet Explorer solved
(login
on www.o2online.de)
- if in Internet Explorer the zoom factor is not 100 % it will no
longer
come
to problems anymore
- it will no longer happen that if you follow a link COBRA-Explorer
will be
switched off accedently
- problems solved when an link to the same page has the target as name
instead of label. (example: www.iscb.de).
- problems solved when activating/deactivating checkboxes (like on (
- problems with activating links on Windows Update page solved
- multi line edit fiels will now be handled correct, either in
automatic
edit
mode and in normal edit mode
- the search dialogue (CTRL+F) will come to foreground also in
Windows 7 32
bit when using Internet Explorer
In general:
- focus tracking in lists (Windows Exsplorer, Outlook Total Commander
and so
on) is now working again
- function ReadDnOld (continues reading line by line) is working again
- when you press ALT+TAB in COBRA-Explorer the first task name will
now be
presented correctly.
- in line mode the E[ will be presented with space now
- groups in Windows explorer in Windows 7 will now be presented
- adding support for JAVA checkboxes with state undefined
- cursor tracking in JAVA multi line edit fiels (HFDB- Client)
optimized
- if the cursor is at the end of a line in HTML editors it will now be
presented right
- the cursor will be tracked in HTML editors also if you write fast
- selection problems in HTML mails solved
- Lotus Notes: cursor tracking of the tiles (main screen)
- using of JAVA access Bridge in all settings of User Account Control
possible now
- new command "BRAILLEINPUTNEXTVALUE" not localized yet) to switch
braille
input with the B-keys of an braille display on/off
- if you start an dump (+0+Multiply, 1) the message "Dump" will now
spoken
and also presented on braile
Localisations:
- french localisation added new
- localisations of arabic, belgium dutch, hebrew, russian and swedisch
updated
- new added current state of belgium dutch manual
Known problems in COBRA 9.1 RC3 (please do not notify us about the
issue
again!)
- in some applications if you navigate away from cursor COBRA will
come back
to cursor automatically.
A work around to avoid this problem switch off focus tracking with
COBRA+F
This will only be switched off as long as the same window is presented,
after
a change of window or change of task it will be switched on
automatically.
- command ReadDnOld is terminated for unknown reasons
- detection and presentation of labels of edits and checkboxes in
internet
pages was changed extremely. It may comes that no label is presented
now.
We are working on that.
- presentation of cell formatting in Excel 2007/2010 is not reliable
- no focus tracking when editing a comment in Excel
- in Word when you expand or reduce the selection of table cells it
will not
be spoken
- using of select boxes in FireFox on the text pages of hoerzu.de (TV
magazine) not possible, no problems with Internet Explorer
- Windows Calculator: under windows XP the operators will not be
presented in
the history
- Internet Explorer: when yu open Favorites, Manage Favorites
COBRA-Explorer
will be activated, but shouldn't
- the document structure (new lines and so on) will not be presented
in PDF
documents with COBRA-Explorer
- when a web page has very much links COBRA-Explorer will react very
slow
when you press TAB
- COBRA-Explorer: when you select text the line till the end the last
or the
two last characters will not be selected sometimes.
- when you have changed the mouse pointer with COBRA Magnification
and lock
your PC and come back you must switch off and on the magnification to
have
your mouse pointer settings again
Betatest:
We kindly ask you to view the following szenarios and give feedback
about the
results.
We are looking for reproduce szenarios for the following:
1. ReadDnOld is terminating suddenly
2. the ReadDn normal continues reading:
The voice is going down and down and goes only to normal level when a
Fullstop (.) was in the text.
For both points:
We need the document/mail where it is reproducable and a short
description
under which circumstances it is.
There are reports from time to time that when reading line by line with
cursor down and you come to the end of the shown window and go
further down
it will not read the current but the first line instead.
In RC 3 we switched off the Braille Monitor to see if it is coming
from this
or not.
If you still have this problem please give us feedback.
Many thanks for your help
Here is the download link for COBRA 9.1 RC3:
<http://download.baum-retec.info/pms/cobra/cobra91rc3.exe>
