Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
- From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:45:19 -0400
Well they got google to help us, so I guess they aren't all a waste of time.
Rick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
I personally believe that Internet petitions of any kind are the most
phenomenal waste of time known to humanity.
Bruce
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> Hi Bruce and all,
>
> A petition *might* be useful only if it offers real, constructive
> suggestions
> rather than just complaining about the current state of affairs. I'm not
> usually a complainer about JAWS, but, well, I must say, JAWS has been
> exhibiting some serious reliability issues as of late, and various updates
> have failed to resolve them.
>
> On the other hand, despite the three screen readers I have on my system, I
> use JAWS the most while performing my job duties, so I guess that says
> something as well...
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <DogRiver@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:14 PM
> Subject: RE: Jaws 8 a disapointment
>
>
>> Oh great another petition.
>>
>> bruce
>>
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>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Jim Williams wrote:
>>
>> > Then maybe a petition should be set up with everyone's name who is fed
>> > up
>> > with this deal. Or alternatively, flood FS with our e-mails.
>> >
>> > As has been said many times, fellow listers can't change the software
>> > only
>> > FS can do that.
>> >
>> > Jim Williams
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>> > Behalf
>> > Of Agent86b
>> > Sent: 24 March 2007 23:17
>> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
>> >
>> >
>> > Even if you submit complaints to FS it has been my experience nothing
>> > changes.
>> > Max.
>> >
>> > on 01:50 25/03/2007, Rick Harmon said:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Have you made any of your problems known to FS? Complaining here
>> > won't
>> > make
>> > JAWS work any better. Everyone that has issues with JAWS needs to
>> > submit
>> > their complaints to them. Otherwise your wasteing your time.
>> >
>> > Rick
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:40 AM
>> > Subject: Re: Jaws 8 a disapointment
>> >
>> >
>> > I agree. I have not used JAWS 8 in some time, because I honestly
>> > feel
>> > it
>> > is
>> > the worse release ever put out by Freedom Scientific. It has many
>> > bugs;
>> > therefore, I have resorted to using JAWS 7.1 until FS repairs the
>> > many
>> > things that are wrong with the 8 version.
>> >
>> > Alicia
>> >
>> > "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude
>> > of
>> > > seeing people towards them."
>> > > - Helen Keller, 1925
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "marcatony" <marcatony@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:53 AM
>> > Subject: Jaws 8 a disapointment
>> >
>> >
>> > > I am very disapointed in Jaws 8. There are so many sites that I
>> > can
>> > not
>> > > get it to read. Between telling me there are non-existant
>> > attachments
>> > to
>> > > telling me that buttons are inactive. I have two versions of Jaws
>> > close
>> > > at
>> > > hand since Jaws 7 seems to be able to read more things.
>> > >
>> > > Marsha Anderson
>> > >
>> > >
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