[real-eyes] Jaws 11 Improved Experience with Yahoo.com, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger.
- From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:45:11 -0500
Victor Tsaran with Yahoo comments here on the recent JAWS 11 update.
Earlier today Freedom Scientific released an update to JAWS 11, found at
http://www.freedomscientific.com, which, among other things, contains some bug
fixes that improved the compatibility between this screen reader and some
Yahoo! products.
Those improvements are listed below:
1. Yahoo! Messenger for Windows: JAWS 11 is now compatible with Yahoo!
Messenger 10 for Windows. Please make sure to use the latest version of the
Yahoo! Messenger software found at http://messenger.yahoo.com
The following features will now work correctly:
- Yahoo! Plug-in manager (add Ebay, Finance, Weather, Games Stocks and other
Yahoo! services to your Messenger).
- Yahoo! IM window and the new "message history" window.
- Yahoo! Today, a "welcome" screen that displays updates from your friends and
the latest news, weather and other favorites specified in your Yahoo! profile.
- and more...
2. Yahoo! home page: JAWS compatibility with the new Yahoo! home page has been
significantly improved, particularly with regard to keyboard focus and
reporting of the new dynamic features, extensively used on this page.
If you are new to the Yahoo! home page, check out the updated "experience" on
the http://www.yahoo.com.
Among other things you can now preview your weather, BBC news, twitter,
facebook, sports, finance, stocks, buzz, Ebay updates and more. You can even
add the web site of your choice to your Yahoo! home page.
3. Yahoo! Mail Classic: JAWS10 introduced a lot of difficulties for the users
of the Yahoo! Mail Classic interface such that many of its screens became
almost unusable. Many of users had to rely on NVDA to check their Yahoo! Mail
for the last year or so.
All of the problems have now gone away and you can now get back to using JAWS
with Yahoo! Mail Classic, if you wish to do so.
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