Re: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:55 -0700
Alex,
Very good points. Especially that the "J" in JAWS means "Job" and not
"Junk". They seemed to have strayed off the original intent: Enriching our
lives and enabling us to be employed in mainstream jobs.
Dave
have lost some of their way
Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Midence" <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 22:31
Subject: Re: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
Sure, if it works for you, upgrade. Sometimes, though, Jaws will
break an existing feature in a new version that you need for your work
and, so, you are stuck. For instance, Jaws 10 works well with
applications using the java access bridge and the java runtime
environment version 1.5. Same thing for 1.6 and 1.4 and so on. Now,
Jaws 11, on the other hand, seems to choke when it encounters web
applets that sit on a 1.5 or earlier jre. I know, I had trouble with
this at work. By sheer dumb luck, I accidentally upgraded to jre 1.6
and Jaws 11 read the web applets fine. Unfortunately, we have a core
component system that will not run on anything after jre 1.5 because
it was built on a 1.1 platform. It's archaic. But, we need it. So,
I have to keep jaws 10 at work even though my SMA entitles me to jfw
11. I have both on the same machine and switch back and forth as
needed. These days, that old component is less and less used but, it
is still necessary to use form time to time. I use 11 on another
component system that is newer and will run on jre 1.6. I have no
idea what caused jaws to break it's previous functionality with stuff
running on 1.5 but I do have my suspicions. Something to do with that
word count app and the research it and the filtering of repeated
characters. Seems to make an unholy brew. Frankly, I think they were
a total waste of developer man power. I mean, NFL scors are nice but
they don't make you more productive at work. Job Access With Speech
or was it Job Access Work Station. Does that sound like something
that should be focused on sports scores and the like when considering
what new perks to add to their software? There are apps which are
used in the work place that fs is ignoring because enhancing web
support and making such and such a website is easier than say, making
Microsoft Publisher accessible or making Adobe Captivate, powerpoint
2007 or Open Office fully accessible. Or, better yet, really making
jaws work well with UIA. That's hard. Might mean releasing fewer
versions at a time. Hurts SMA sales since it only covers 2 version
upgrades. The more versions you can crank out in a year, the more
often someone has to renew their SMA. It's all money-driven.
Alex M
On 8/4/10, Yadiel <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe it's just me. But I paid for a SMA license and if I don't upgrade
> I'll
> loose it. I don't know if I need or not, but I paid for it. So I better
> enjoy what it brings to the table. who knows.
>
>
> From: Gerald Levy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:02 AM
> To: JFW list
> Subject: Who Needs JAWS 12 Anyway?
>
>
>
> One of the new features mentioned in the JAWS 12 preview I posted
> yesterday
> is a "virtual ribbon" option that will emulate the classic menus in Office
> 2003 while retaining the ribbon menu structure everyone loves to hate.
> For
> those of you who do not plan to upgrade to JAWS 12, I just discovered a
> great little app called Ubit Menu that adds the classic Office 2003 menus
> to
> the Office 2007/10 ribbon menu. Once you download and install this app,
> you
> bring up the ribbon menu by pressing Alt, right arrow to the Menu tab and
> hit Enter. Then you can tab and shift tab through the various classic
> 2003
> menu options for Word, Excel and Power Point. It works well with JAWS 9,
> and does not disrupt the existing ribbon menu structure in any way. So
> you
> can have your cake and eat it too; classic Office 2003 menus, or the newer
> and more frustrating Office 2007/10 ribbon menus. So who needs JAWS 12
> anyway? Besides, Ubit Menu is availabel now, so you don't have to wait for
> JAWS 12 to be released.
>
> http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
>
> Gerald
>
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