Re: JAWS 8.0 Issues
- From: "Gary King" <w4wkz@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:07:57 -0600
I was going to post the response from FS to the bugs I mentioned in my original
message, but since you've already seen it, I won't bother. Apparently, until
they get the bugs worked out of JFW 8.0, all of the tech support people are
sending out the same canned responses. Very helpful!
Hmmm! JAWS for Windows 8.0! Are public betas by any other name just as buggy?
Gary King
w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary King
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:21 PM
Subject: JAWS 8.0 Issues
I updated Build 422 of JAWS 8.0 that came on my CD to Build 423 today. I'm
not sure what they fixed, but it wasn't the Spell Checker in Outlook Express.
Each time it checks a word, it speaks blank for the misspelled word and then
speaks the first suggestion and spells it. How many of you have experienced
this problem? My old 6.2 version of JAWS works fine in the Outlook Express 6.0
Spell Checker.
The only other big issue I've had with JAWS 8.0 so far is that it sometimes
loses focus on a Web page when I Alt Left Arrow back to a previous page. When
this happens I have to route the JAWS cursor to the Virtual cursor and perform
a mouse click with the slash key on the keypad to regain focus.
When I was looking around in the Outlook Express scripts to see if I could
see anything to change in the spell check function, I noticed a function that
was documented as a work-around for the focus bug. It would be nice if FS
would squash these bugs instead of working around them.
Gary King
mailto:w4wkz@xxxxxxxx
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