Re: JAWS 4.51.131 Features
- From: "Fazil M." <urdu786@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:52:17 -0800
Hi.
I am unable to get this ftp link:
ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/JAWS451131Patch.exe
did anybody get that?
Thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Armond Sooksians" <armond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 11:06 AM
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.
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