This information about the JFW 4.51.331 patch is entirely accurate. It's very much worth your while to download this patch if you're not planning to upgrade your JFW. Regards, Seth Leblond Beyond Sight Sales and Technical Support Phone: (303) 795-6455, EXT. 102 Web Site: <http://www.beyondsight.com> -----Original Message----- From: Armond Sooksians [mailto:armond@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:06 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: JAWS 4.51.131 Features Hi All, I'm not sure this information are correct. I found them on Yahoo. I think that you may find them useful: The following information from Eric Damery will clarify what issues the patch for Jaws 4.51 addressed. This information will be posted to the Freedom Scientific website at a later time, hopefully later this week. During the development of JAWS 5.0, we solved many problems that have been in JAWS since 4.51 and even earlier in some cases. While I wish we could always add fixes back into earlier versions, it is not so simple in most cases so we don't often get to post fixes for versions of software that were released 8 to 10 months earlier. With the release of JAWS 5.0, we have decided to go back and make several fixes to 4.51 version. These problems were significant enough issues, that we did not want our 4.51 customers feeling that they had to upgrade to get these fixes. The fixes provided, and the link for the patch are outlined below. Regards, Eric Damery Vice President Product Management Software Freedom Scientific, Inc. Note that you should have JAWS 4.51.119 already installed before executing the self extracting installer of the patch. That patch can be found at: ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/JAWS451131Patch.exe Fixes: 1. There were certain web pages that when accessed with JAWS 4.51, could cause your JAWS Screen Reader to be unloaded without any explanation. This has been resolved for 5.0 and is included in the patch for 4.51. 2. There were reports from many users that JAWS would become sluggish after a period of time and cause you to have to reboot your system in order to continue using it. This happened most often in Windows XP and especially if you were using Internet Explorer in Windows XP. Note that it did not happen on all systems. This is solved for 5.0 and included in the patch for 4.51. 3. There were many reports of users pressing up or down arrow to navigate through a document in Word or maybe an email message and JAWS would say blank or maybe read the previous line. If you were reading with a Braille Display or did a say line at that point, you would find that in fact JAWS was on the expected line. This problem was tied to timing and scrolling documents and should be resolved in both JAWS 5.0 and in 4.51 using this patch. 4. We solved some of the reported problems related to disappearing text in MS Word documents during the JAWS 5.0 cycle and have included those changes for 4.51 patch also. Also, I still cannot use the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia with JAWS 5.0. Are there any new scripts? Best regards, Armond. To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.