another cute Jaws 8 trick!
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:27:46 -0700
Well, this is new. To add to the dozen or so strange things this version
already does on my computer, so that I turn it off and launch Jaws 7 as I've
done a few minutes ago), here's a brand new one. I was in a .txt file in
which I wanted to select a passage of a newspaper article I happen to have
saved to disk, and paste that passage into an email I was writing to
someone.
So I do the usual. Start at the beginning of that passage, arrow down until
I see that section turn dark with highlighting and hear the last few words
of the passage as I select it.
as always, I control C to copy to clipboard. And what do I hear? "Copied?"
No. "Copied to clipboard?" No. Even "Control S," maybe? Not on your life.
What I hear is something I've never, ever heard Jaws say in all the years
I've been using it: "Copy line." Huh? I figure, maybe Jaws 8 is having a
strange mental day or something, and go to my open email and paste in what
I've copied., to see what it will be.
Well, not only did this block of text not paste in, but another part of
another document I'd recently pasted into *another* email I sent someone
pasted itself in. Was obviously still in the clipboard. Obviously hadn't
been replaced by whatever this "copy line" meant, if anything.
Well, there we go again. I went back to the stuff I wanted to copy and
paste, exited Jaws 8, launched Jaws 7, selected, copied and pasted the
material without a hassle, and now I'm still in Jaws 7. What man I missing?
A pop-u[p on most web pages announcing tthe availability of RSS fees, and a
button to close it so my page can load? Thanks, but no thanks.
Weirdest version of Jaws I ever owned. total waste of an SMA credit. Reads
table information when I'm just going into Forms mode to type something into
an edit box, blabber blabber. Takes half an hour to close an open email in
my Send folder. Can't find its way back to the link I started from when I
alt back arrow from one Web page to the one before it. Proudly announces
something like "switching tasks" the first time I press alt Tab to circulate
around the Task Bar to another open application, but never says that again,
usually for the rest of that session on the computer. And a million other
things. Totally insane. And Jaws 7, that's 7.0, works like a charm. Whatever
8 is supposed to do for me, I don't need it. I wish they'd stop fooling
around trying to add bells and whistles or fix things that already work, and
just upgrade the program so operating systems or changing Web site designs
don't render it helpless, as happened last fall with the New York Times site
when they changed the page formatting, until FS finally got up to speed with
that, thankfully. Wow, they wait years between upgrading Open Book, which is
a bit too long. But why they can't leave Jaws alone for a couple of years at
a time, I have no idea. It's all silliness.
ah, well. I know. If I don't like it, I should fly to Florida on a personal
jihad or something. But I'm just not sufficiently committed. what can I say.
They don't need technical suggestions from their customers, nor do they need
a suicide bomb attack. All they need is an ADA lawsuit. That would get them
to be serious, I'll bet. copy line. Yeah. right. I got your "copy line,"
Jim. I got your "copy line" right here.
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