Re: JAWS8 Experience

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:30:14 -0700

For you, that is, chief. Actual mileage may vary, as the line goes.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: JAWS8 Experience


Overall, I've actually been quite happy with JAWS 8 as well. Seven,
particularly seven point one, was an atrocity, but eight's pretty good.

Bruce
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:44:21 +0800, "Allan" <allanwkf@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> hmm? is jaws 8.0.XXX really that bad? i use it since last year november
> till now, i don't really have much trouble with it. some
> time maybe we need to understand that when the program need to implement
> some new features and some new product support, there might
> be little crappy here and there. so, why can't you people compromise and
> give some time for the developer to solve the problem in
> the near future?. since day one we use jaws, we already know that there
> is some small problem here and there, but i do believe FS
> have tryed their best to fix it from time to time. just nothing is
> perfect in the world.
>
> sorry if this is not what you all like to hear, but just my perspnal
> opinion.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Allan Wong
> 3M Technology
>
> ** If I said something wrong, please forgive me, as English is not my
> native, I'm sorry.
>
> From: "Eileen Lafond" <Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I cannot use the version 8 at all because it will not work with
> GroupWise  version 6.5.7 and I cannot seem to get Novell to do anything.
>  F S. says that Novell has to take care of the problem.
>
>
> Eileen La Fond
> Phone (206) 386-0011
> e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >>> "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 4/26/2007 11:07 AM >>>
> Hi George and all,
>
> My biggest problem with JAWS 8 really is the frequent occurrence of
> blank
> virtual buffers, mostly in Internet Explorer.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "George Marshall" <geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:55 AM
> Subject: JAWS8 Experience
>
>
> Hi All:
> With all of the negative comments about JAWS8, just thought I would say
> I
> have very few problems with JAWS8 and XP, this configuration has been
> quite
> stable for me.  I don't question that some of you are having trouble.
> HTH,
> George R. Marshall
> geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Control Home and Control End in Outlook Express
>
>
> > Small detail.  Pressing the home or end key without control has
> always
> > landed you on the first or last message in a folder, with that
> message
> > being selected.
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Don Moore" <donmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >>    Please note that I did change the subject to reflect what we are
> >> discussing today.
> >>
> >>    Robert Hebert wrote, in part:
> >>
> >> "I am using Jaws 8 and Control home does not produce that annoying
> bong
> >> either when the message list in o/e or when in an open message. In
> an
> >> open message, control home simply reads the top line of the message
> and
> >> control end reads the last line of the message or the first or last
> >> message
> >> in the list when in any of the mail boxes." (end of quote)
> >>
> >>    That is exactly my experience and I do like the fact that
> pressing
> >> Control Home actually lands you on the first message in a mailbox
> and
> >> pressing Control End actually lands you on the last message in a
> mailbox.
> >> In earlier versions of JAWS, pressing Control Home or Control End,
> in an
> >> Outlook Express mailbox, always left you with the first or last
> message
> >> unselected. That's amazing, I realize, that I finally found
> something
> >> positive to say about JAWS 8.
> >>
> >>    Regards,
> >>
> >>    Don
>
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