Alex, great list. Some of the things that are on that list have been things that I've noticed since I got my MPower. I'm working on an extra manual that is to supliment the manual that goes with the bn, and will hopefully be on this list and post it this summer. The text being erased never happens to me, but I think that document was modified should just be completely out of the bn, as most of the time I say no.
On 4/29/08, Alex Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list and Humanware Support Staff: > I have attached a file of bugs which I have compiled from both my > experiences and those of other users. I know that Humanware > monitors the bn list and so probably already has many of these, > but I figured that it could not hurt to be sure. Humanware, > please take the time to review this list and ensure that, at the > least, all of these problems have been added to your database, if > not addressed in the next release of keysoft. > > Since this message is going to both HW support and the BN list > (which does not allow attachments), I will post my list of bugs > below. If you reply to this message and are on the bn list, > please be aware that replying to all will send a copy of your > message to Humanware support as well as the bn list. Here are > the 49 bugs I have found: > > For mPower BT with KS7.5B27: > 1. Keyweb does not support DHTML, nor several event handlers in > JavaScript: onChange, onSelect, onFocus, and onBlur. OnClick is > supported. > 2. If a webpage has default text for a textarea, that text > appears in the textarea as well as on the page after it. > 3. Speech often speeds up when you give the BN several commands > without giving it time to speak fully in KeyMail and KeyWeb, > mainly when connecting. > 4. Rarely, alarms will sound for no apparent reason--the BN once > told me an alarm was scheduled to ring at 1143 when the next one > was actually the next day at 0500. > 5. The built-in modem is not very reliable--I have not been able > to establish a dial-up connection since KS7.2. > 6. Somehow the total size of the "128mb" flash disk is 120.44mb. > 7. The problem of the BN erasing documents (it has always been > with non-keyword-native formats) randomly is still here. > 8. When you are editing a file, then attach the file to an > email/copy it, that path is not set to the default path to open > next time you go to edit it. In other words, you cannot, by > default, reenter a file you were just working with after > attaching/copying/moving it. > 9. If a CF card is in the back slot when you try to plug a > Sandisk WIFI + Connect 128 mb card into the PCMCIA slot (with an > adapter) the storage part is recognized but the network part is > not. To get the WIFI part working you must take out the CF, plug > the Sandisk in, wait until the network card is recognized, then > put the CF back in. > 10. If you have stuff in the clipboard and try to paste it into > a textarea, only the first few words appear. > 11. When switching between Keymail and Keyweb, you must always > select the connection to use to connect. > 12. Marked media files play in "view files by:" order instead of > in the order in which you mark them. > 13. The upgrade seems to revert the default file type back to > braille or text, instead of keeping a different setting (mine > went from MSW to KWT). > 14. Email is no longer sent after email is received when > entering the InBox. This was intentional, but I think it should > be an option rather than set. > 15. When in French, the system cannot locate the Braille table. > 16. When in German, the Braille display remains blank while > typing in a Keyword document even though speech reads the > information. > 17. Translating a block of text into computer Braille places > capitals all over the text. > 18. Issues with keymail (that I cannot duplicate): when sending > mail, the BN will sometimes give an exception and say "invalid > socket handle". When sending email to lists, the BN will > occasionally add a random character (from ASCII 0 up, not just > printable characters) to the end of email addresses going to > groups. This has happened (for me) on the following lists: BN, > GW Micro notetaker, Bookport, Blind Teen Talk (regularly) blind > programming, maybe others. It never happens to personal > addresses. > 19. DAISY books sometimes lock up the unit when closing, never > hold your place in the text, and slow down basic operations like > moving by line. > 20. Language tags cause problems in MSW files (maybe other types > as well), mainly when pasting text or inserting files. Text is > marked English even if the file was already English, then, when > you re-enter that file, there is a no-language tag in front of > the text (dollar sign l g) and there is no way to spellcheck > thtext, translate it into braille, or translate it back into > English. > 21. I have found that when detaching files from emails, my bn > will freeze up and a reset will unfreeze it but not fix the > problem; I have to do a 4-5-6 reset before I can detach files, > and there is no way to know when it will happen again. > 22. Playing media files, from audio files to local or internet > playlists, will sometimes freeze the BN. > 23. In UEB, one cannot enter UEB in the "look up" fields of any > database; it must be grade 1. > 24. Capitalization is missing in the BN information menu and in > some help prompts, such as the prompt about what to do when an > email is larger than the maximum size allowed. > 25. There is no way to save a large email, or at least an > email's attachments that cause it to be too large, to a storage > card. > 26. Pressing backspace-1-4 in a text box on a web page does not > erase text from the cursor to the end of the box; it instead > clears the entire box. > 27. The bn does not always stop speaking when the > backspace-enter keys are pressed, nor does it always stop when > any key is pressed in the book reader, such as space, enter, or > backspace. > 25. Placing the cursor on text, such as a url, when in UEB puts > the cursor at the start of the text, not where you pressed the > touch cursor button. > 26. There is no distinction between same-page links (# links), > mail-to links, and "normal" links, plus mail-to links are not > supported. > 27. There is no way to action the onMouseOver event for > links--possibly a thumb key press with enter or something. > 28. The Braillenote prompts for a configuration when you click a > link after switching back to Keyweb, but not if you click a > button, even if the button accesses a server-side script. The bn > should prompt no matter what, unless the form does not talk to a > script, so that forms can be processed correctly. A similar > situation arises if you have a locally stored html page that > tries to access a script on the web. Also, when going back or > forward through pages with the dedicated commands, you are > prompted for a configuration in the above situations even if the > target page is locally stored. > 29. You cannot open many files from the file manager if they > have extensions not directly recognized by the bn, such as .js, > php, .java, .cpp, .csv, .ini, .log, .bat, and so on. There > should be a way of associating a program with a file extension. > This would also help if you wanted to edit an html file rather > than view it in keyweb. > 30. In UEB, question marks can be entered in text (such as a > url) but are not translated correctly. When you copy a url from > an email, you must go through it and insert dots 5-6 before a > question mark or the bn sees it as a quotation mark. The dots > 5-6 sign should be inserted automatically by the bn. > 31. There should be an option to save all files in keyweb, so > that you can download .txt files (and other text files with > different extensions--.java files are not downloaded, they are > opened like txt files). > 32. When typing numbers in UEB, a colon does not make numbers > after the colon into letters (such as times--12 colon j j is > still 12:00) but the bn speaks any characters after a colon as if > they were letters, not numbers. > 33. Keymail often reports receiving one more email then it > displays after finishing. For example: "there are 5 email on the > server. Checking for new email. Receiving 1 of 5." (receives > all) "finished receiving. There are 4 new email." > 34. If ram is low, the bn will receive an email but say "error > decoding [or saving] email: error 2: the system cannot find the > file specified." So you get the email but sometimes it is broken > into code and sometimes you do not get an attachment that was > supposed to be with that email. The bn should monitor its ram > and refuse to receive messages if this is going to happen instead > of garbling the text and/or erasing attachments. On a similar > note, attachments are sometimes received with a .tmp extension. > They are full-sized but report having a size of 0 bytes, and are > unusable. Just to erase them one must reset the unit. > 35. When freeing database space in keymail, especially after > clearing the trash of very large amounts of email, the amount of > bytes freed is reported as 0 even though it could be upwards of > 500Kb. > 36. When playing local audio files, the file sound is lost when > any sound, even a small background sound, is played on a web > page. The braille display continues to move along like the file > were playing, but one must exit and re-enter the file to get > sound back. In playlists, the entire playlist must be closed; > one cannot simply go to another song in the list, there will > still be no audio. > 37. When reading continuously, the braille display jumps to the > end of the file several lines, up to a paragraph, before the > speech reaches the end. This means that if you are reading and > find a mistake you want to fix near the end of the file, you > cannot just stop speech and be at the mistake you just heard; you > must go back up to find where it was because the cursor has > jumped to the end. > 38. When streaming radio stations, it is very hard to get a > constant stream; either it stops completely or pauses for > anywhere from 1 to 30 seconds, then starts up again where it > paused, but after a few seconds it will jump to the place it is > currently, skipping the audio missed when it was silent. > 39. The Pronunciation Dictionary should be revamped: multiple > words should be allowed so that words like wind and live can be > set to speak correctly in common contexts; numbers and > punctuation should be allowed, so that 50-caliber is not > pronounced "50 dash 31 liber" and so on; punctuation should be > allowed in "misspellings" as well as words to be repronounced; > caps should matter, so that words like DOE can be pronounced "d o > e" when in all caps but "doe" when not all caps; words like > capt., lt., and so on should be changed to not stop a sentence as > though the period after the abbreviation were the period of a > sentence, so that "Capt. Johnson" is pronounced as expected, > "Captain Johnson" not "Captain. Johnson". > 40. There is no way to view the document status of a webpage, > only the title. > 41. When saving favorites, the name with which you were > prompted, not the name you type in for the favorite, is reported > upon saving the favorite. The favorite has the name you gave it, > but it is reported as having been saved with the default name. > 42. There is no way to "force-quit" a script. If a script > triggers an infinite loop, especially of alert boxes, there is no > way to command the script to not run anymore. > 43. In popup boxes, form characters such as tabs and new lines > are shown as ASCII characters, not as the format they are > supposed to be. > 44. Modal dialog boxes are not supported properly, and neither > are boxes allowing one to enter text. > 45. Things like "click" stay on the display even when a dialog > pops up, so if you have speech off and do not press the inner > right thumb key several times you will never know that the bn is > simply alerting you to something, and may reset, thinking it > frozen up. > 46. The manual should mention the possibilities of DOS, or at > least tell users that they can type single dos commands into the > "command line?" prompt when running kssd/windows/cmd.exe. You > can search your system, make files hidden or not, even run bat > files to perform tasks you may want, such as having a bat file to > search and just changing the search term in the file. > 47. When playing a playlist, you must reset in order to be able > to edit that list, even if you close the media player before > editing; you will get a message informing you that "the system > cannot access the file because it is being used by another > process". > 48. When you exit an edited non-keyword-format file, you are > told that the "document has been modified. Save as a keyword > document?" You can press y for yes, n for no, s to suppress > future propts for that file, or space-e to abandon all changes to > the file. This last command should NOT be available here as I > have heard of several cases, including one of my school final > exams, being erased because of this. > 49. When switching tasks from the wordprocessor and back, text > is sometimes deleted. To ensure this does not happen, you must > close your file, perform the other task, and re-open the file; > otherwise your document could be partially or completely erased. > > Have a great day, > Alex > -- Have a w Bob Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out my forum at http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/middle_school or my blog, http://bobcavanaugh.blogspot.com ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
