says who!?
Because the problems he's having just might not have anything to do with JFW? It could be something else on his system interfering with Jaws and preventing it from doing its excellent job...JAWS RULES, OK.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Beasley
Sent: 25 July 2005 13:41
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap
Why not try Window-eyes
----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Jaws 6.2 - generally a bit crap
Hi,
I am not impressed with jaws 6.* at all.
Reason being that it has screwed up some of the functions that I use very very regularly almost every minute of the day at work.
Its responsiveness has died when it comes to writing. I always have the echo set to words. After you've written about 3 or 4 words the echo fails to be as responsive and so you're writing blind, as it were.
Also I've noticed that my soundcard fails with JAWS 6.2 - I find myself regularly having to turn my computer off and back on again - it
is not something that can be fixed with a simple unloading of jaws. The braille works but the speech dies several times a day.
The control+F find function in Internet Explorer - though everso slightly better than the Find funtion in jaws 6.0 - is nearly useless.
I use this feature very regularly to find words and character strings on a web page to avoid having to search a whole screen manually. All user testing of websites I've done with jaws users shows me that lots of blind people use control+f in this way. Actually every single one of the people I've tested uses it in this way very frequently throughout the day. To have it broken and or very badly responsive is bad enough. To have a find function that, when you hit enter, actually
activates a hot spot on the page and sends you to another page rather than searching down is a joke. And oftentimes the control+F find function tells me a string doesn't exist on the page when I know it damn well does.
Grrr.
Is anyone else deeply unimpressed with jaws 6 series? I'm yet to find anything better in it than jaws 5.
...Damon
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