JAWS 8.0 what's new!
- From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:16 -0600
What's New in JAWS 8.0
This page lists the new features and significant
bug fixes available in version 8.0 of JAWS.
Please note that SMA holders and new product purchases since
September 2006, are already authorized to
download and begin using this paid for upgrade
when it becomes available. If you are not sure whether you are
authorized for this version, you can look up your JAWS serial number on
www.FSActivate.com.
On the Activation page, choose the link: "Verify
the number of activation keys available for your
Freedom Scientific product." On this page, a table contains
the specifics about your license.
If you have not purchased JAWS 8.0 yet, you can
download and check out the free demonstration version.
JAWS Features
Fixes in this Version of JAWS
JAWS Features
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? JAWS 8.0 and Supported Operating Systems.
? Say All Command and SAPI 5 Voices.
? Alternate Say All Command.
? RealSpeak Solo Speech Synthesizers.
? Virtualize Window and Virtualize Current Control.
? Internet Explorer 7 and Tabbed Navigation.
? New Keyboard Functions in Internet Explorer.
? New and Modified Keystroke Commands.
? New FSReader Demo Commands.
? Startup Wizard.
? Updated Getting Started Cassette Tape
? New and Updated DAISY Training Books.
? Web Resources.
? Expanded JAWS Find Dialog.
? Skim Reading by Text Color or Text Attribute.
? Creating a Skim Reading Rule Using Color and Attribute Rules.
? Manage Application Settings.
? SAPI 5 Synthesizer Voice Aliases.
? Synthesizer Dialect Switching.
? Spell Alphanumeric Data.
? Smart Word Reading.
? Turning Off Custom Labels.
? Version Specific Configuration Script Set Loading.
? Enhanced Reading of Web Pages with Dynamic Content.
? AOL Instant Messenger 6.0 Support
? Updated Instant Messenger Commands.
? Special Characters in Microsoft Word.
? Table Description in Microsoft Word.
? Reading Tables in Microsoft Word.
? Bullet Type Indication in Microsoft Word.
? Reading Footnotes, Endnotes, and Comments in Microsoft Word.
? Improved Display of Hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel.
? Viewing Cell Comments in an Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
? Font Color and Attribute Detection in Microsoft Excel.
? JAWS Memory Dump Command
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JAWS 8.0 and Supported Operating Systems
JAWS 8.0 only supports Windows 2000, Windows XP
Pro, Windows XP Home, Windows Media Center, and
Windows 2003 Server. If you are new to JAWS, and you are
running Windows 98 or Windows ME, please download JAWS 7.10 from the
JAWS Download page.
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Say All Command and SAPI 5 Voices
JAWS can immediately switch from its current
Eloquence synthesized voice to a SAPI 5,
RealSpeak Solo synthesized voice when using the Say All command (INSERT+DOWN
ARROW). While the JAWS default Eloquence voice
may be useful for reading and navigating short
text such as prior or next line, sentence, or paragraph,
it may not be the preferred voice for longer
passages of text. The SAPI 5 voice offers a
higher-quality sound, which makes reading using the Say All (INSERT+DOWN
ARROW ) command a more pleasing experience.
When using the new feature, the SAPI 5 voice
remains active while you fast forward, rewind,
speed up, slow down, or move using the Navigation Quick Keys
during the Say All. However, when you use
navigation functions such as Say Word and Say
Paragraph, or when you use the UP or DOWN ARROW keys to read the
previous or next sentence, or when you press the
CTRL key to stop the Say All command, JAWS
immediately switches back to the Eloquence voice.
Note: The RealSpeak Solo synthesizers cannot be
downloaded from Freedom Scientific. You will
receive your RealSpeak CD as part of your upgrade or SMA Shipment.
To choose a SAPI 5 synthesizer to use during the Say All, do the following:
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1. From the Utilities menu, choose Configuration Manager.
2. From the Set Options menu, choose Say All Options.
3. In the Say All dialog, select the Use SAPI 5 During Say All checkbox.
4. Choose a SAPI 5 voice from the SAPI 5 Say All Voice combo box.
5. Adjust the SAPI 5 speech rate using the SAPI 5 Rate Amount slider.
6. Choose the amount of punctuation that JAWS
announces using the SAPI 5 Say All Punctuation combo box.
7. Choose OK, and press CTRL+S to save your changes.
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Alternate Say All Command
If you have the SAPI 5 Say All command enabled,
this feature allows you to perform a Say All
without engaging the SAPI 5, RealSpeak Solo voices. This may
be useful if you do not want to hear a particular
passage spoken in the SAPI 5 voice.
The keystroke for Alternate Say All is ALT+INSERT+DOWN ARROW.
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RealSpeak Solo Speech Synthesizers
Included with your package is the RealSpeak Solo,
SAPI 5 synthesizer CD. It contains a variety of
voices in several languages. To install these voices,
insert the CD into your computer's CD-ROM drive.
Then, follow the instructions to select which
voices you want to install, and complete the installation.
The following voices are available on the English/Spanish CD:
table Caption: RealSpeak Solo Voices on English/Spanish CD
Summary: This table states the languages and
RealSpeak Solo voices available on the English/Spanish CD.
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Language
RealSpeak Solo Voice
American English
Jill, Samantha, and Tom
British English
Daniel and Emily
Australian English
Karen and Lee
Latin American Spanish
Paulina
Castilian Spanish
Isabel
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Note: Additional languages will be available from
your international distributor.
Note: The RealSpeak Solo synthesizers cannot be
downloaded from Freedom Scientific. You will
receive your RealSpeak CD as part of your upgrade or SMA Shipment.
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Virtualize Window and Virtualize Current Control
Virtualize Window
The Virtualize Window (CTRL+INSERT+W), a feature
that has long been available in JAWS since
release 4.51, captures everything in the current application
window. This even includes the static text that
appears in the window, so that you can avoid
trying to recall something to type into a message in order
to communicate it to others such as support
staff. This is a great way to capture error codes
and dialog messages since the text can easily be copied into
an e-mail message.
For a quick example to see how this works, try the following:
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1. Press INSERT+F4. The Quit JAWS dialog box appears.
2. Next, press CTRL+INSERT+W. The dialog box
title, message, and command buttons appears in the virtual viewer, for example:
"Quit JAWS
Are you sure you want to quit JAWS? Press Enter
to quit now, or Escape to cancel.
OK Cancel"
3. To select and copy the contents of the virtual
viewer, press CTRL+A then CTRL+C.
4. You can now open your e-mail application and
paste (CTRL+V) the contents of the virtual viewer into your e-mail message.
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Based on customer requests, Freedom Scientific
has taken this a step further by virtualizing the
contents of a specific list, control, combo box, or screen
area. This is known as the Virtualize Current Control.
Virtualize Current Control
In some cases, such as lists, you might want to
only virtualize the current control rather than
the entire window. Starting with JAWS 8.0, just add the
SHIFT Key to the Virtualize Window command.
Therefore, pressing CTRL+SHIFT+INSERT+W results
in getting only the text located within the current control.
For a quick example to see how this works, try the following:
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1. Open Windows Explorer (WINDOWS Key+E).
2. Press TAB to navigate to the list of files.
3. Press CTRL+SHIFT+INSERT+W. Only the file list appears in the virtual viewer.
4. To select and copy the contents of the virtual
viewer, press CTRL+A then CTRL+C.
5. You can now open your e-mail application and
paste (CTRL+V) the contents of the virtual viewer into your e-mail message.
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Internet Explorer 7 and Tabbed Navigation
JAWS 8.0 continues to keep pace with the latest
developments from Microsoft. Internet Explorer 7
introduces tabbed browsing navigation, which allows you
to run multiple Web pages within a single
browsing window. This browsing approach is similar to Mozilla Firefox.
The following table describes new keyboard
commands for tabbed browsing navigation:
table Caption: Internet Explorer 7 Commands
Summary: This table describes the Internet
Explorer 7 commands for tabbed browsing navigation.
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Tabbed Browsing Navigation Commands
Description
CTRL+T
Open a New Tab
ALT+ENTER (on the address bar)
Open a New Tab from the Address Bar
ALT+ENTER (on the Toolbar Search edit)
Open a New Tab from the Toolbar Search Edit Box
CTRL+ENTER
Open Links in a New Tab in the Background
CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
Open Links in a New Tab in the Foreground
CTRL+SHIFT+Q
View List of Open Tabs
CTRL+Q
Toggle Quick Tabs (Thumbnail View)
CTRL+TAB
Switch to the Next Tab
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Switch to the Previous Tab
CTRL+n, where n is a digit from 1 to 8
Switch to a Specific Tab Number
CTRL+9
Switch to Last Tab
CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
Close Current Tab
ALT+F4
Close All Tabs
CTRL+ALT+F4
Close Other Tabs
CTRL+J
Opens and places focus on the Feeds tree view
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New Keyboard Functions in Internet Explorer
Freedom Scientific has made a significant
modification to Internet Explorer keyboard
functionality. In previous JAWS releases, the tabbing order in Internet
Explorer always placed the address bar and tool
bar first before any Web page links. With JAWS
8.0, pressing TAB now takes you to the first link or control
on the page, skipping over the address bar and
tool bar. From a usability stand point, this is
much more efficient than previous JAWS releases.
Pressing SHIFT+TAB still allows you to move
backwards to the tool bar and address bar. Also,
if you tab all the way through the page, JAWS will wrap to
the address bar from the last element on the page
as expected. This functionality is part of the
Internet Explorer design and has not been altered by JAWS.
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New and Modified Keystroke Commands
The Jump to Cell command, CTRL+J, which appears
in the Navigation Quick Keys help topic and the
JAWS Commands for HTML help topic, has changed. The new
command is CTRL+WINDOWS Key+J.
The CTRL+J command is now used to view the Feeds list in Internet Explorer 7.
The ALT+J command opens the Feeds menu in Internet Explorer 7.
The CTRL+E command moves focus to the Search box in Internet Explorer 7.
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New FSReader Demo Commands
The JAWS program CD includes basic training
materials in a digital document format known as
DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System). You can listen
to and read the training modules by using the
FSReader Demo (a demonstration version of Freedom
Scientific?s DAISY reader), which is automatically installed
with JAWS. By default, at least one DAISY book
(FSReader Getting Started) is also installed.
JAWS 8.0 introduces the following new global
play, pause, fast forward, and rewind commands.
These commands can be performed from within any program as
long as FSReader Demo is running.
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? CTRL+P. Press CTRL+P to begin reading the book.
Press CTRL+P again to pause reading the book.
Note: As long as FSReader Demo is running, CTRL+P
will toggle between play and pause. If you want
to print while FSReader Demo is active, you must use
an application?s Print command.
? CTRL+PERIOD. Press CTRL+PERIOD to fast forward five seconds.
? CTRL+COMMA. Press CTRL+COMMA to rewind the book five seconds.
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Startup Wizard
The JAWS Startup Wizard is a helpful tool that
allows you to configure specific JAWS parameters,
such as automatically starting JAWS when you turn on your
computer, or installing training material, or
loading various other JAWS items and functions.
During a new JAWS installation, the Startup Wizard appears
after you complete product activation. However,
it can always be accessed later from the JAWS
Help menu by pressing ALT+H and choosing Startup Wizard.
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Updated Getting Started Cassette Tape
Full copies of JAWS 8.0 include the "Getting
Started with JAWS" audio cassette. It explains
the fundamentals of using JAWS on your computer. You will also
learn how to use FSReader to access Basic
Training materials included that appear in DAISY
format. The new version of "Getting Started with JAWS" has been
improved and expanded from 76 minutes to more
than 110 minutes of instruction. It covers new
JAWS 8.0 features, such as the JAWS Startup wizard, RealSpeak
Solo installation, and more! Other newly covered
topics include What's in the Box, authorization, installation, and activation.
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New and Updated DAISY Training Books
The following are new DAISY training books, which
are also available in mp3 format at the Freedom Scientific
Training Headquarters.
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? What's New.
? Alternate Say All.
? Smart Word Reading.
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The following DAISY books were updated for JAWS
8.0. These books are also available in mp3 format
at the Freedom Scientific Training Headquarters.
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? FSReader Getting Started.
? Basic Training.
? Skim Reading.
? Custom Labels in Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer.
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Web Resources
Web Resources is a new command that is located
under the Help menu. It provides the following
helpful links to Freedom Scientific products and resources:
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? JAWS Headquarters ? a one-stop resource for
JAWS. Use these pages to download software
updates, locate resources, and learn new ways to use JAWS.
? Technical Support ? Use this link to access support bulletins and FAQs.
? FS Activate ? Use this link to verify the
number of available JAWS activation keys, request
a reset of the number of activations allowed for a registered
user, or retrieve an activation license code
based on your Authorization number and Locking code.
? Surfing the Internet ? Use this link to access
Surf's Up! A useful tool that teaches you how to
work with and read HTML pages with JAWS.
? MAGic Screen Magnification ? Learn more about
MAGic, Freedom Scientific's screen magnification software.
? Training Headquarters ? Learn more about
training options and tutorials available from Freedom Scientific.
? PAC Mate Headquarters ? Use this link to access
information, documentation, and tools available
for the PAC Mate accessible PDA.
? www.FreedomScientific.com ? Use this link to
open the Freedom Scientific home page.
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Expanded JAWS Find Dialog
A new addition to the Find dialog is the Maintain
History of Recent Finds check box. When selected,
the Find dialog's Find What combo box retains a history
of your past 20 searches. If you wish to delete
the current entry in the Find What combo box,
select the Delete button, which is also new to the dialog.
If you want to clear all entries in the Find What
combo box, select the Clear Find History button.
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Skim Reading by Text Color or Text Attribute
Skim Reading by text color or text attribute is a
new feature in JAWS 8.0. It acts as an advanced
Find feature that searches for text based on the selected
color and attributes criteria. When the search is
complete, you have the option of hearing the
search results, using the Start Skim Reading button, or
having the results appear as a link list in the
Virtual buffer, using the Create Summary button.
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Creating a Skim Reading Rule Using Color and Attribute Rules
The following example describes how to create and
save a skim reading rule using text color and
attributes. This procedure assumes that you are using Skim
Reading for the first time.
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1. Open a document or Web page.
2. Press CTRL+SHIFT+INSERT+DOWN ARROW to open the Skim Reading dialog.
The first time you open the Skim Reading dialog,
the focus is on the Read First Line of Every
Paragraph radio button in the Use Rule Type group. Subsequent
openings will place the focus on the Rules History combo box.
3. Press the DOWN ARROW three times to select the
Attributes and Color Rules Apply for Reading
radio button, which appears in the Use Rule Type group. This
action enables the Color or Attribute Rules combo boxes and check boxes.
4. Press TAB. Focus moves to the Rules History
combo box. The default value is <New> when you
open the Skim Reading dialog for the first time. Note: When
you want to create a new rule, always select
<New> from the Rules History combo box.
5. Press TAB again. The focus moves to the Text
Color combo box in the Color or Attribute Rules group.
6. In the Color or Attribute Rules group, select
the text color and attribute parameters that will
be part of your skim reading search.
For example, if you want to search for all red,
bold text in a Word document, first enter the
letter r in the Text Color combo box. The combo box automatically
populates with the word red. Next, press TAB
twice to move to the Bold check box. Press
SPACEBAR to select the Bold check box.
7. Press TAB until the focus is on the Speak Unit
combo box. Next, select how the Skim Reading
feature searches for the text color and attribute parameters.
For example, decide if you want Skim Reading to
search for lines, sentences, or paragraphs that
have matching search parameters.
8. Press TAB twice to move to and select the
Start Skim Reading button. JAWS searches the
document for the selected rules, and when encountered, reads the
text.
The next time you open the Skim Reading dialog,
the rule that you just created appears in the Rules History combo box.
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Manage Application Settings
This dialog is ideal for technical support
personnel who are assisting users with their
installed version of JAWS. The Manage Application Settings dialog
contains a list of applications that have user
modified settings . The user may have made
changes through the Configuration Manager, or with custom scripts.
This dialog allows you to temporarily disable
those application-specific settings quickly, in
order to troubleshoot, by ruling out any changes they may
have made in their JAWS 8.0.
Once inside the dialog, use the SPACEBAR to check
or uncheck the check box next to an item in the list.
To open the Manage Application Settings dialog, do the following:
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1. Press ALT+O to open the Options menu.
2. Choose Manage Application Settings.
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SAPI 5 Synthesizer Voice Aliases
A voice alias allows you to associate a different
voice, pitch, or rate with different reading
functions. For example, JAWS may read links on a Web page
using a voice other than its default voice. JAWS
8.0 introduces Say All voice aliases. This lets
you assign SAPI 5 voices to various dialog boxes, windows,
HTML pages or documents.
To choose a SAPI 5 synthesizer to use during the Say All, do the following:
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1. From the Utilities menu, choose Configuration Manager.
2. From the Set Options menu, choose Say All Voice Aliases.
3. In the Voice Aliases dialog, select the Add button.
4. Enter a name for the voice alias, select a
SAPI 5 voice, and adjust the pitch and rate.
5. Choose OK, and press CTRL+S to save the changes.
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Synthesizer Dialect Switching
JAWS 8.0 introduces a new Text Processing feature
called Generalized Dialect. It is a check box
that determines if JAWS switches to a different language
to account for dialects within the same base
language. This feature is enabled by default.
For example, if this feature is checked, and JAWS
is reading, in English, a Web page that supports
US English, UK English, and Australian English, JAWS
will not switch between languages since the base
language is English. However, if JAWS encounters
another language, such as German or French, it will switch
to that language.
To turn off or on the Generalized Dialect feature, do the following:
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1. From the Utilities menu, choose Configuration Manager.
2. From the Set Options menu, choose Text Processing.
3. Press TAB until the cursor arrives at the
Generalized Dialect check box. (This check box is selected by default.)
4. Press SPACEBAR to disable the feature. Press
SPACEBAR again to enable the feature.
5. Choose OK, and press CTRL+S to save the changes.
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Spell Alphanumeric Data
The Spell Alphanumeric Data combo box lets you
configure how JAWS reads alphanumeric
information. This function is turned off by default.
To change the value of Spell Alphanumeric Data, do the following:
List of 5 items
1. From the Utilities menu, choose Configuration Manager.
2. From the Set Options menu, choose Text Processing.
3. Press ALT+A to select the Spell Alphanumeric
Data combo box. (Off is the default setting.)
4. Press the UP or DOWN ARROW to select an option.
5. Choose OK, and press CTRL+S to save the changes.
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The following table describes the options that are available in this combo box:
table Caption: Spell Alphanumeric Data Options
Summary: This table describes the options
available in the Spell Alphanumeric Data combo box.
Table with 2 columns and 4 rows
Options
Description
Off
This is the default setting. When selected, JAWS
reads the text as it appears. For example, JAWS
reads the license plate number 123RON as one hundred twenty
three Ron.
Spell
JAWS spells alphanumeric data. For example, JAWS reads 123RON as 1 2 3 R O N.
Spell Phonetically
JAWS uses the phonetic alphabet to spell
alphanumeric data. For example, JAWS reads 123RON
as 1 2 3 Romeo Oscar November.
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Smart Word Reading
In previous releases, when issuing the Say Word
command, JAWS would only read the current word or
character when the cursor was positioned on a text unit,
such as a compound word, telephone number, date,
time, or math equation. With Smart Word Reading
enabled in version 8.0, JAWS now reads the entire text
unit when the Say Word command is issued.
Note: The Smart Word Reading feature is
application dependent. So, if Microsoft Word
normally reads the entire text unit as one word or number, then JAWS
will do the same. Likewise, if an application,
such as WordPad, reads each component of the text
unit, then JAWS will do the same.
For example, in the sentence, "She is my
sister-in-law," if the cursor is placed anywhere
on the word "sister," JAWS would say "sister." However, in JAWS
8.0 with Smart Word Reading, JAWS will say the
entire compound word, "sister-in-law."
Likewise, in the sentence, "The appointment was
at 2:00 P.M.," JAWS would say "colon" if the
cursor was placed between the digit 2 and the colon. In JAWS
8.0 with Smart Word Reading, JAWS will say the entire text unit as two o'clock.
As a final example, let's look at how JAWS reads
a telephone number. If the cursor is placed
between the dash and the 444 in the telephone number 1-800-444-4443,
previous JAWS versions would say, "444." In JAWS
8.0 with Smart Word Reading, JAWS reads the
entire telephone number as, "1-800-444-4443."
To turn off or on the Smart Word Reading feature, do the following:
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1. From the Utilities menu, choose Configuration Manager.
2. From the Set Options menu, choose Text Processing.
3. Press TAB until the cursor arrives at the
Smart Word Reading check box. (This check box is selected by default.)
4. Press SPACEBAR to disable the feature. Press
SPACEBAR again to enable the feature.
5. Choose OK, and press CTRL+S to save the changes.
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For more information about Smart Word Reading,
refer to the XTraSmartWordReading DAISY book that
is installed from the JAWS CD. The book is also available
in DAISY or mp3 format from the JAWS Training Headquarters. Refer to the
Additional Books in DAISY or .mp3 Formats
section for the book.
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Turning Off Custom Labels
You can now toggle the Custom Labels option off
and on using the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog
(INSERT+V). Custom labels, which are on by default, allow
you to assign text labels to most Word forms and
HTML elements, such as buttons, graphic links,
text links, and form fields. This option is available for
multiple applications and your current Internet Explorer session.
Use this option to temporarily hide customized
labels that you created for Web pages and forms.
For example, it allows individuals, such as support staff,
developers, and testers, to suppress their custom
labels, without permanently deleting them, while
they work with a document or Web page. When you turn
off custom labels, this mode stays in effect
until focus moves away from the current
application. The option then reverts to its default setting, on.
To temporarily hide your custom labels, do the following:
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1. Press INSERT+V.
2. Use the ARROW keys to select Custom Labels.
3. Press the SPACEBAR to choose off.
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Version Specific Configuration Script Set Loading
The architecture now exists to load a
configuration set (scripts and settings) based
file version for JAWS 8.0. JAWS already has the feature of specifying
a file alias. If the file name is not a desirable
configuration name, an alias is created in
ConfigNames.ini. When the application focus changes, JAWS
will read the executable name and checks it
against this file. If a match is found, then the
match is used. Otherwise, JAWS will simply use the executable
filename. The new changes will expand this
feature so the aliases can be version-specific.
This only affects the JAWS application (including MagUtil).
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Enhanced Reading of Web Pages with Dynamic Content
Many Web pages add or update content
automatically as you read or navigate. In
previous versions of JAWS, you would often lose your place when such pages
were updated. In JAWS 8.0, the position of the
Virtual Cursor is retained when the page is
updated, so that you no longer have to move back to the text
you were reading. This useful feature means that
Web pages with frequently updated content are
more accessible to JAWS users and less frustrating to read.
The following is a good demonstration of this feature:
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1. Type www.bbc.co.uk/news in your Web browser's address bar.
2. Press INSERT+F9 and choose the front page
ticker frame. This may be the only frame available.
3. Press DOWN ARROW. The cursor appears on the ticker tape.
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? Braille users can watch the ticker tape as it writes to the braille display.
? Use the Say Line command and you can hear the
ticker tape speak as it changes.
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4. Press DOWN ARROW to move below the ticker
tape. The information on the rest of the page is
consistent. The content and positioning of elements has not
changed. This means that you no longer need to
turn off the Page Refresh option in your Personalized Settings for that page.
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Not only can JAWS read the ticker tape on the
screen as it gets updated, which was introduced
in JAWS 7.1, but it can now read the rest of the content below
the ticker tape.
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AOL Instant Messenger 6.0 Support
AOL Instant Messenger 6.0 is AOL's latest update
to the popular AOL Instant Messaging software.
You can install AIM 6 while keeping the prior version, AIM
5.9, on your system since JAWS support is
independent for each program. The actual AIM 6
program only runs under Windows XP and Windows 2000. Windows 98
and Me users should continue to use AIM 5.9 for this reason.
AIM 6 offers several new features including
tabbed IM windows, increased support for
accessibility, increased security, text messaging, voice chat, and
other features such as managing buddy contact
information with a universal address book. For
full details regarding AIM 6 visit
www.aim.com.
For the most part, AIM 6 functions with JAWS in
the same manner as AIM 5.9. You can use standard
Windows and JAWS keystrokes to navigate within AIM. When
you are in a conversation window, new incoming
messages are automatically spoken. Note, if
necessary, this can be turned off in the JAWS verbosity dialog
(INSERT+V). If you are within AIM but not in the
conversation window, JAWS alerts you when you
have a new message from a buddy by saying, "buddy x sent
a message." Once you ALT+TAB into the
conversation window, the message is automatically read to you.
To review the conversation history, you can use
the keyboard commands ALT+1, ALT+2, ALT+3, and so
on through ALT+0, where ALT+1 is for the last message
and ALT+0 is for the 10th previous message.
Previously, AIM scripts only supported review of up to three messages.
Note: If you press any of the ALT+1 through ALT+0
keys twice quickly, the focus moves to that
message in the Conversation History window.
As always, you can review the conversation
history by tabbing to the conversation history
window or by pressing CONTROL+SHIFT+H to move focus to this window.
This window is now an HTML window thus HTML
navigation options can be used. When messages
arrive in a tabbed IM window, but that tab is not the current
conversation, AIM will alert you that a message
arrived by playing the sound associated with that
buddy. (You also have the option of having JAWS speak
the buddy's name.) To read the message, you can
press CONTROL+TAB to select the tab for the buddy
in question and then use the review conversation history
commands or tab to the conversation history window to review the new messages.
Note: By default, AIM 6 is configured to flash
the task bar when an incoming instant message is
received from a buddy. It is recommended that you turn off
the flash functionality since it can cause JAWS
to speak constantly when a new instant message is
received and the IM window is not in the foreground.
To disable the flash functionality, uncheck the
"Flash the window when IM messages received"
check box. It is found by choosing the Settings command from
the Edit menu and then choosing the General IM tab.
If sign in or sign out notifications are enabled
in AIM 6, these notifications are automatically
spoken in AIM 6 and any other application that has focus
since AIM 6 is still loaded in memory. To disable
speaking of buddies signing in or out, use the
JAWS verbosity option when in AIM 6 and restart JAWS,
or disable buddy sign in or sign out
notifications in AIM 6 by choosing the Edit menu,
the Settings command, and then the Notifications tab.
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Updated Instant Messenger Commands
JAWS 8.0 does not use ALT+SHIFT+F10,
ALT+SHIFT+F11, ALT+SHIFT+F12, and CTRL+SHIFT+DASH
as instant messenger keystrokes. Instead, the following keystrokes
are used for instant messenger applications:
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? CTRL+SCROLL LOCK+F10 ? Repeat the last Yahoo! Instant Messenger alert.
? CTRL+SCROLL LOCK+F11 ? Repeat the last AOL Instant Messenger alert.
? CTRL+SCROLL LOCK+F12 ? Repeat the last MSN Messenger sign-in alert.
? CTRL+SCROLL LOCK+DASH ? Find an urgent conversation.
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Note: If you previously used the SCROLL LOCK
keystroke as a toggle, you must now press it twice.
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Special Characters in Microsoft Word
JAWS now recognizes the following special characters in Microsoft Word:
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? Soft hyphen ? Press CTRL+HYPHEN to insert a soft hyphen.
? Non-breaking hyphen ? Press CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN
to insert a non-breaking hyphen.
? Non-breaking space ? Press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE to insert a non-breaking space.
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Table Description in Microsoft Word
JAWS 8.0 can detect the color pattern and shading
of table cells in Microsoft Word. For example, if
a cell is 50 percent shaded with a clear background,
JAWS will announce, "Gray 50 percent shaded on
clear pattern background." Table description is
on by default. Note: This functionality is not currently
available in Word 2007.
Press INSERT+TAB if you want JAWS to repeat the cell description.
To disable table description, do the following:
List of 4 items
1. Open a Word document.
2. Press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog.
3. Use the ARROW keys to select Table
Description, and press SPACEBAR to turn off this item.
4. Close the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog.
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Reading Tables in Microsoft Word
The following JAWS keystrokes, used for HTML
tables on Web pages, can now be used with Word tables:
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? Say Next Row ? WINDOW Key+DOWN ARROW.
? Say Prior Row ? WINDOW Key+UP ARROW.
? Read Current Row ? WINDOWS Key+5.
? Read Current Row ? WINDOWS Key+COMMA.
? Read Current Column ? WINDOWS Key+PERIOD.
? Say Next Column ? WINDOWS Key+RIGHT ARROW.
? Say Prior Column ? WINDOWS Key+LEFT ARROW.
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An error message is announced if a key is pressed while not in a table.
JAWS always announces if the keystroke is entered
while in the first or last row of the table.
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Bullet Type Indication in Microsoft Word
JAWS can now read an outline-style list that
contains bullets rather than numerals. For
example, if a Word document contains an outline list that uses different
bullet styles, JAWS announces these shapes as
filled-round bullet, hollow-round bullet, star
bullet, and so on. Bullet Type Indication is on by default.
To disable bullet type indication, do the following:
List of 4 items
1. Open a Word document.
2. Press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog.
3. Use the ARROW keys to select Bullet type
indication, and press SPACEBAR to turn off this item.
4. Close the Adjust JAWS Verbosity dialog.
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Reading Footnotes, Endnotes, and Comments in Microsoft Word
When you turn on the "Comments, Footnotes, &
Endnotes" verbosity option, JAWS now detects the
presence of footnotes, endnotes, and comments even when performing
the Say All command.
If you want JAWS to announce the contents of a
footnote or endnote in a Word document, do the following:
List of 3 items
1. Open a Word document.
2. Place the cursor on the footnote or endnote reference.
3. Press ALT+SHIFT+E. JAWS reads the footnote or endnote.
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If you want JAWS to announce the contents of a comment, do the following:
List of 3 items
1. Open a Word document.
2. Place the cursor on the comment reference.
3. Press CTRL+ALT+APOSTROPHE. JAWS reads the comment.
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Improved Display of Hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel
JAWS now lists hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel more
intuitively. When you press INSERT+F7 to display
the list of links, the text of each cell that contains
a hyperlink appears instead of only the cell address.
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Viewing Cell Comments in an Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
In Microsoft Excel, you can insert a note into a
spreadsheet cell by adding a comment. JAWS 8.0
can read these comments and display them in the virtual
viewer.
Use the following commands to read and view cell
comments that appear in an Excel spreadsheet.
table Caption: Viewing Cell Comments in Excel
Summary: This table contains the JAWS commands
that allow you to view notes that appear in Excel cells.
Table with 2 columns and 4 rows
Command
Description
CTRL+SHIFT+APOSTROPHE
This command shows all cell comments that appear in an Excel spreadsheet.
ALT+SHIFT+APOSTROPHE
This command reads the comments of the currently
selected cell in an Excel spreadsheet.
ALT+SHIFT+APOSTROPHE twice quickly
This command places the cell comments into the virtual viewer for reading.
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Font Color and Attribute Detection in Microsoft Excel
JAWS 8.0 can detect and report the formatting
styles associated with a font, such as font name,
point size, text color, background text color, and attributes
like bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough.
This feature is useful in Excel spreadsheet
documents where a variety of colors may be used to emphasize
certain details in spreadsheet cells.
Do the following to enable the font attribute detection feature:
List of 4 items
1. Open an Excel spreadsheet.
2. Press INSERT+V to open the JAWS Verbosity dialog.
3. Use the ARROW keys to select Font Color and
Attribute Changes, and press the SPACEBAR to turn
this feature on. This feature is on for the duration of
your JAWS session or until you turn it off.
4. Navigate through the spreadsheet. As you move
from one cell to another, JAWS announces the cell
label and the cell's font attributes when font styles
or attributes change.
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Note: Do not confuse the font attribute detection
feature with the cell shading detection feature
that was introduced in JAWS 7.10. The earlier feature
detects a cell?s shading and pattern colors. The
new feature detects a cell?s font style and attributes.
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JAWS Memory Dump Command
If a total loss of speech occurs, it is difficult
to recover JAWS without rebooting the computer.
However, a reboot provides no diagnostic information to
assist Freedom Scientific in researching the underlying problem.
INSERT+WINDOWS Key+F4 is a new JAWS keystroke for
emergency recovery. The new keystroke closes
JAWS, terminates all related processes, and creates a memory
dump file. The diagnostic information can be used
to assist Technical Support. (Note: The keystroke
will not work at the Windows Log In screen.) After
issuing this command, you can restart JAWS to regain speech.
The memory dump file is saved to the Settings
folder. To locate the file, do the following:
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1. Press CTRL+ESC to open the Start menu.
2. Choose Programs.
3. Choose JAWS 8.0, Explore JAWS, and then
Explore My Settings. This opens the following
folder: C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application
Data\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\8.0\Settings\ENU.
4. Press the BACKSPACE key to navigate to the Settings folder.
5. Select the JAWSMemDmp folder and press ENTER.
The files in this folder are identified by the JAWS version and build number.
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Fixes in this Version of JAWS
JAWS
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? Fixed a problem where JAWS sometimes needed to
be closed and then restarted before application
specific configuration settings were honored after making
changes in Configuration Manager.
? The Left/Right Sliders found in the JAWS Voice
dialogs, now move in the correct direction when
using the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys or PAGE UP and PAGE
DOWN keys. However, the UP and DOWN ARROW keys
are reverse so that the UP ARROW lowers values
and the DOWN ARROW raises values.
? You can now switch to Grade 2 braille while installing JAWS.
? JAWS now announces the state of the Toggle
Speech button in the Customize List View Headers
dialog. This is available when you open, from Windows Explorer,
the Configuration Manager and select Customize List View.
? Resolved a long standing issue related to
certain video cards where text located or typed
at the location at the mouse pointer, was not always read by
JAWS. In worst cases, text that had scrolled by
the mouse would be then missing to JAWS forcing a
Screen Refresh to restore it. This fix was also included
in the latest update to JAWS 7.1
? When using a multimedia keyboard or laptop with
volume adjustment buttons, JAWS is not
interrupted by multimedia keystrokes such as B for volume up and
C for volume down, and D for mute.
? Fixed an issue when using a SAPI 5 synthesizer
with JAWS, where it would sometimes pause when it
encountered the word "a" in a sentence.
? Resolved the keyboard help (INSERT 1) issue
where pressing keys on a Braille Display did not
provide the functional description of that particular key
as it does when pressing keys on the keyboard.
? If you run JAWS as a service, and multiple user
names are available when you log on to Windows,
it now reads the names that appear in the list.
? Fixed an issue reported by SAP Germany related
to JAWS logic in recognizing HTML data tables under certain circumstances.
? When localizing JAWS' screen sensitive help
messages into French, the following characters
are no longer reversed: a and q, q and a, z and w, w and z.
? The screen sensitive help messages that appear
for the Graphical Link Last Resort radio buttons,
which appear on the Graphics tab page of the HTML Options
in Configuration Manager, have been corrected.
? UTF-8 characters are visible to JAWS when the
Expand Abbreviations and Expand Acronyms check
boxes are selected. To locate these check boxes, open Configuration
Manager and select HTML Options. Next, select the
Text tab. Both check boxes appear on the Text page.
? You can now successfully log off of Windows XP
with multiple users when JAWS is running as a service.
? Changes to the default.jcf file in the User
Settings folder are now processed correctly.
? JAWS Braille Sleep mode now works correctly
with braille displays that are auto detected
(Focus and PAC Mate Portable braille displays).
? When using the Say Next Word (INSERT+RIGHT
ARROW) to read a multi-page document, JAWS would
on occasion not move to the next line when the last word of
the current line was reached. This problem has been resolved.
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HTML and the Internet
List of 26 items
? Resolved a reported issue where blank lines
would appear between bullets and the list items
on certain lists when using both IE 6 and 7.
? JAWS does not speak all of the cell information
when you enter into another table on the same
page when navigating with the TAB key.
? Unable to navigate tables with the standard
table reading commands while in Forms mode.
? JAWS announces when you move from one frame to
another on a Web page when using the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys.
? JAWS recognizes both the SPACEBAR and ENTER key
as ways to start a Flash Player video.
? Fixed an issue where JAWS would exit Forms mode
when you press ENTER in a multi-line edit field
in Internet Explorer. This problem often appeared when
entering text into the body of an e-mail message
using Yahoo e-mail (http://mail.yahoo.com).
? JAWS now shows bulleted text in the virtual buffer with FSDOM support.
? Screen sensitive help (INSERT+F1) is now
available for the Page Refresh Filter command.
This command is located in the HTML Options dialog in Configuration
Manager.
? JAWS now turns off Forms mode when you exit
Internet Explorer while Forms mode is still enabled.
? The Rely on MSAA option is no longer available
in the default configuration file. This
eliminates the issue where JAWS would not read some JAWS-related
list boxes under the following conditions: Rely
on MSAA is checked in the default configuration
file and JAWS is running as a service.
? When the navigation quick key N is pressed on a
Web page with a non-link graphic, JAWS now moves
to the next non-link block of text instead of the graphic.
? Resolved an issue for the Florida Division of
Blind Services where JAWS would not read the
title attribute in a table with editable cells.
? Fixed a problem where JAWS would read headings
twice on an HTML page when navigating with the UP and DOWN ARROW keys.
? Resolved an issue reported by Microsoft where
JAWS was not reading combo boxes on HTML pages.
? JAWS now correctly reads buttons in both Forms
mode and Virtual mode in Internet Explorer.
? JAWS no longer looses speech when it encounters
security dialogs in Internet Explorer.
? When in Forms mode in Internet Explorer, if a
character is deleted from a field, JAWS speaks
the recently deleted character instead of the character that
the cursor is now focused on. This has been fixed in JAWS 8.0.
? In Internet Explorer 7 in the Options Dialog
found under tools, JAWS now reads the full
content of the Privacy tab in the Internet Explorer Options dialog
when you first open the tabbed page. Previously,
JAWS would only announce the setting of the Up
Down slider and not the other information on the page.
As you change the slider, pressing INSERT+TAB
will read all the details for the new setting.
? Fixed a reported problem where JAWS would crash
if you tried to assign an existing placemarker
name to a newly created placemarker in Internet Explorer.
? JAWS can now recognize characters such as
German capital umlauts or Russian capital letters
when searching for non-English characters in the Internet
Explorer 7 Virtual Buffer.
? There is now a description for the Delete
Browsing History button, which appears in
Internet Explorer 7 when you select the Tools menu, Internet Options
command, and then the General tab page.
? JAWS now reads Hebrew Web pages properly.
? JAWS now announces detailed information about
the Auto Complete Settings button and the Feeds
Settings button in Internet Explorer 7. Both buttons are
located on the Content tab page in the Internet Options dialog.
? JAWS now reads the Windows Update page as expected.
? JAWS no longer shows same page links as being
visited when the page has not been visited.
? The for= and id= attributes no longer have to
match (for example, lowercase versus mixed case
characters) for JAWS to recognize the correct label for
a form field. This was an issue in JAWS 7.1.
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Mozilla Firefox
List of 8 items
? When you press CTRL+F in Firefox to find a word
or phrase, JAWS now finds subsequent instances of
the item if it appears multiple times on a Web page.
? List anchors command (INSERT+CTRL+A) now works.
? The forward command (ALT+RIGHT ARROW) returns
you to your previous location after using the back command (ALT+LEFT ARROW).
? Fixed an issue in Mozilla FireFox 2.0 where
pressing enter on a link that was part of a list
would fail to activate the link. When this problem occurred,
the user would hear JAWS attempting to go into Forms Mode.
? Firefox no longer crashes when opening a very large file.
? Fixed the issue where the Virtual PC cursor
would move to the top of an HTML page when any dialog is opened or closed.
? JAWS now sees all frames that appear when using
Mozilla Firefox to log on to RoadRunner.
? JAWS now honors line breaks properly in Mozilla
Firefox 1.5 or 2.0 so you can use CTRL+UP or DOWN
ARROW keys to move by paragraph along with Navigation
Quick Key "P".
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Microsoft Excel
List of 26 items
? Double speaking is no longer heard when
navigating the Paper Size combo box of Excel's Print Setup dialog.
? When pressing CTRL+SHIFT+GRAVE, JAWS now
returns to the previous cell location from a monitor cell as intended.
? When working with creating and editing comments
in Excel, JAWS now works as expected while
selecting or navigating the text of the comment.
? When selecting multiple rows and or columns in
a spread sheet, JAWS now announces the cell at
the top left and cell at the bottom right of the selection
as you add new rows or columns to the selection.
SHIFT+INSERT+DOWN ARROW will still repeat the
entire block of the selection at anytime.
? In the CTRL+G dialog, JAWS now properly reads
the prompt for the "Reference" Edit field.
? In the Format Cells dialog, JAWS correctly
reads the contents of the Font Edit Combo Box as
you arrow up and down. Additionally, it no longer reads any
other information at adjacent controls when it is unexpected.
? Items in drop down lists from within a cell are now read as expected.
? Items in the auto filter drop down list are now
read as expected when navigating using UP or DOWN ARROW.
? JAWS now properly speaks the results after you
press either CTRL+SEMICOLON to insert the date or
CTRL+SHIFT+SEMICOLON to insert the time into the current
cell.
? The "CTRL+" static text associated with the
short cut field in the Record Macro Dialog, is now spoken as expected.
? Fixed an issue where JAWS would often read the
title of the current workbook instead of the cell
navigated to when navigating quickly in a spread sheet
with the arrow keys.
? When a title row or column is blank and
extended selection mode is turned on, only the
cell text and coordinates are announced.
? Resolved an issue where Column and Row headings
were no longer spoken or brailled correctly if a
merged cell was part of the heading itself.
? Fixed a reported issue in JAWS which would
result if an entire row or column were deleted from a spread sheet.
? Fixed a long standing issue reported where
using intermediate or advanced verbosity and
moving with CTRL and the ARROW keys, would often read the cell
you came from rather than the cell you navigated into.
? JAWS is now consistently reporting the status of checkboxes in Excel
? Fixed a reported issue where JAWS would read
the title of a row or column if focus was on the
cell that actually contained the title.
? Pressing INSERT+F twice while in Excel now
presents all the font and format information into
the virtual buffer making it easier to review in speech and
braille.
? Pressing the INSERT+UP ARROW twice quickly will
now spell the current line as expected.
? Fixed an issue where navigating a multi-line
cell after pressing F2 was not working properly in previous versions.
? Fixed an issue in the diagram gallery dialog
box where you could not reach the top item in the list box with the PC cursor.
? JAWS now properly reads the descriptions of the
various diagram types in the diagram gallery dialog.
? Fixed a reported issue where JAWS would not
read a title that included the ampersand.
? Fixed the reported problem where SayFromCursor
or SayToCursor in the virtual viewer did not read as expected.
? Fixed reported issue where document named
titles that included title restriction set to any
data cell, would fail if it was the first column of a worksheet.
? Fixed a reported issue where JAWS would
occasionally report the wrong subject of a
message when returning to the Inbox using CTRL+SHIFT+I from a different
message folder.
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Microsoft Word
List of 11 items (contains 1 nested list)
? JAWS now correctly announces the checkmark
status located to the left of the names listed in the Mail Merge Wizard.
? When reading with ARROW keys and Say All, JAWS
misses text with an extra-large font size.
? JAWS no longer speaks the current line twice
when you quickly move through a document using the DOWN ARROW.
? When moving through fields in a Word document
or form with the F11 and SHIFT+F11 keys, JAWS now
properly speaks the prompts and field content as expected.
? When in a multi-page dialog in Word 2003 or
earlier, JAWS now announces the page tab name instead of the document title.
? When JAWS encounters a compound word, telephone
number, date, or other text unit in a Microsoft
Word document, it now reads the text unit as a single
entity instead of several words.
? JAWS now consistently speaks a heading 2 style
in a Microsoft Word document when using ARROW
keys to move through the document.
? Cell and table border information now appears
when screen sensitive help (INSERT+F1) is invoked in a Microsoft Word table.
? JAWS now recognizes the following special characters in Microsoft Word:
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? Soft hyphen ? Press CTRL+HYPHEN to insert a soft hyphen.
? Non-breaking hyphen ? Press CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN
to insert a non-breaking hyphen.
? Non-breaking space ? Press CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE to insert a non-breaking space.
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? When typing an address or return address using
Microsoft Word's Envelopes and Labels dialog,
JAWS can now read the data that is entered into the Delivery
Address and Return Address list boxes.
? When on the first character of a field in
Microsoft Word that has an attribute, such as
bold, underline, italic, and so on, JAWS now reads the current
character when the CTRL+INSERT+NUM PAD 5 keystroke is issued.
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Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express
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? When holding the CTRL key and moving up and
down in the Inbox of Microsoft Outlook, JAWS now
says "Not Selected" to be more consistent with Windows Explorer
and other lists. In previous versions, JAWS would report "Unselected".
? When you press ALT+TAB to move from the MSN
Messenger application to Outlook, JAWS now reads
the contents of the Outlook tool bar.
? In Outlook Express, JAWS announces the label of
the ?When Outlook Express starts, go directly to my Inbox?check box.
? JAWS now announces the correct e-mail profile
when you have multiple profiles configured in Outlook.
? JAWS now announces the newly highlighted e-mail
message that has focus after using the Delete key to delete an e-mail message.
? Fixed an issue in Outlook 2003 where JAWS would
not recognize items that appear in combo boxes when creating a new contact.
? When using the advanced Find function
(CTRL+SHIFT+F) in Outlook Express, JAWS now
announces if any unread messages appear in the Inbox list.
? JAWS now reads multiple e-mail addresses that
appear in the From combo box when using the UP
and DOWN ARROW keys to navigate in Outlook Express.
? When performing a spell check in Outlook, JAWS
only announces a suggested word change once when
using the ALT+I, ALT+C, ALT+G, ALT+A, or ALT+L shortcut
keys. Previously, JAWS would announce it twice.
? Resolved an issue where JAWS incorrectly
identifies a check box as a list box when using
the advanced Find function in Outlook Express.
? Fixed a reported issue where JAWS would unload
and a reboot was required when exiting Outlook Express.
? Resolved the issue where JAWS would repeat the
percentage value twice when editing or creating a new task.
? Fixed a reported issue where deleting an e-mail
message would result in certain indications such
as an Attachment or High Importance may get reported
for the newly focused message, even though the
indications were only found on the previously deleted message.
? JAWS reads the items as you scroll through the
Font dialog in a new Outlook Express message.
? The status of check boxes in the Navigation
Pane Options dialog is now announced when you select or deselect a check box.
? JAWS now correctly reads scheduled appointments
in Outlook's Calendar. In a previous release,
JAWS would ignore scheduled events when using the ARROW
keys to move through the Calendar.
? In Outlook, JAWS now announces all items that
appear in the Accounts list box of the Send/Receive Settings dialog.
? In Outlook Express, we have fixed a problem
where switching identities would force you to
shut down and restart JAWS before being able to read messages
under the new identity. This problem started in JAWS 7.1.
? Fixed the issue where JAWS would double speak
when tree-view lists are collapsed or expanded in Outlook Express 6.0.
? JAWS now announces the highlighted item when
you use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to scroll
through a list of items in Outlook's Import and Export wizard.
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Microsoft Access XP/2003
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? Fixed a reported issue where JAWS was not
correctly speaking the labels on certain Microsoft Access form buttons.
? JAWS correctly speaks the information that
appears in the Open dialog list box in Microsoft Access.
? Resolved an issue in Microsoft Access in which
JAWS was not reading relationship tables.
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Adobe Acrobat/Reader (PDF)
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? When in a multi-line table, JAWS correctly
announces the cell when using the ALT+CTRL+NUM
PAD 5 (Say Current Cell) keystroke.
? JAWS announces captions for combo boxes and list boxes in a PDF document.
? JAWS correctly identifies the number of rows
that appear in a multi-line table in an Adobe Acrobat document.
? JAWS now fully reads user comments that appear in a PDF document.
? JAWS now announces when focus is moved to a
combo box in a PDF document, and it also
announces the items that appear in the combo box when you use the
UP and DOWN ARROW keys.
? When in Forms mode in a dynamic form field,
JAWS remains in Forms mode when the form content changes.
? The issue with JAWS not acknowledging same page
links with Adobe Acrobat has been resolved.
? Resolved an issue where JAWS was not speaking
the name of combo boxes and list boxes in Adobe Acrobat files
? Resolved an issue with Adobe Acrobat where JAWS
was not speaking the Signature field name as a user read the document.
? Resolved the issue where JAWS would go into
Forms mode in an Adobe Reader document, but not
place the focus on the edit box.
? If you use the ARROW keys to navigate through
an Adobe Reader document containing combo boxes
and list boxes, JAWS would not read the name of these boxes.
However, when tabbing through the same document,
JAWS would read the names. This issue has been
resolved in JAWS 8.0. JAWS now reads combo box and list
box names if you are using the TAB key or ARROW
keys to move through a document.
? JAWS now announces in an Adobe Reader form if a
check box or radio button is read only.
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Windows Live Messenger
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? JAWS announces all characters when using the
LEFT or RIGHT ARROW keys to move through the
contents of the Edit Contact dialog.
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Other Programs
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? JAWS announces linked text that appears in a
Eudora message when navigating with the ARROW keys.
? JAWS now announces when you select an item
using CTRL+DOWN ARROW in the Windows Explorer list
? Fixed an issue for IBM's Eclipse tools where
JAWS was ignoring the name of various buttons in the application.
? JAWS now announces the highlighted text when
you press the Find Next button (CTRL+F) in the
WordPad Find dialog, or you press F3 from the document window.
? When Enhanced Edit mode is on and OSM is off,
JAWS now places the cursor in the correct
position when navigating in a Notepad document with UP and DOWN
ARROW keys.
? Braille refreshes now operate correctly when there is a status change.
? Resolved the issue where using the TypeString
function in JAWS Script Manager would insert an
unwanted apostrophe when the computer's regional language
is set for English UK.
? In FSReader, JAWS now reads and displays in
braille the search results when using the Find function.
? Previously, if you tried to open FSReader by
press F1 or choosing Getting Started from the
FSReader Help menu, you would get an error message. This has
been fixed in JAWS 8.0 and now opens the FSReader Getting Started DAISY book.
? JAWS now announces when the Winamp Media Library window is open.
? Addressed problems reported In Notepad or Rich
Edit controls where using JAWS in the "Enhanced
Edit" mode, would not work correctly when selecting text
from right to left.
? JAWS 8.0 supports Winamp 5.3 and the new media
library. Use the F6 key to move between panes of the media library.
? When in Enhanced Edit mode, the braille cursor now blinks in WordPad.
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