It works well but seems to crash on some dynamic web pages if I try to
move around too fast.
Erin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy." <jp.kd5...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] People's impressions of JAWS 11?
I'm having trouble with it in outlook 2007 and the copy and paste from
web
pages is broken and I've reported both. Other than that, I haven't
noticed
anything bad.
Have a good day.
http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.podsim
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[mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Grant
Hardy
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 7:51 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: [JAWS-Users] People's impressions of JAWS 11?
Hi all,
One has to be a bit generous with beta software, of course: it's
intended to
be tested and was never meant to be perfect. However, JAWS betas in
general
seem to be quite polished already. At least in my case, this has
totally
changed with this beta of JAWS 11.
Incredible focus problems make browsing the web, installing
applications,
and accessing programs to be so troublesome that frankly I usually
give up
and revert to JAWS 10. Frequently, JAWS 11 completely loses control
of the
keyboard, passing everything right through to my applications as if
JAWS
were unloaded. This means, for example, that silencing speech,
requesting
to hear the current line, and so forth, would not work. This has
absolutely
never happened to me with any other versions of JAWS. Personalized
settings
aren't properly erased, even when you purge the contents of your JAWS
settings folder.
And when you get right down to it: Research It is a stripped down
version of
the Windows sidebar; currently, in fact, it can only search through
sources
such as Wikipedia and Wictionary, which are absolutely never accepted
in an
academic context anyway. Word Index is "cool", but it's not a screen
reader
feature and there are widely available freeware packages that do
exactly the
same thing. The Gmail support has stopped working entirely. And
while
there are a few enhancements under the hood, they're not the
incredible
screen reading breakthroughs that were rolled out in versions such as
3.31
(the virtual cursor), 4.5 (quick navigation keys), 5.0 (place markers)
or
9.0 (a new Word engine and better access to rich edit controls on web
pages). I am incredibly faithful to JAWS and love it immensely, but
after a
year's development, frankly, I expected a little better.
Let's definitely not rant: I'm looking for constructive comments by
others.
Has JAWS 11 been performing up to JAWS' usual standard? (If not, be
sure to
report everything to the FS test department.) Do you see yourselves
using
the new features found in JAWS 11? Am I alone in having mixed
emotions over
this beta?
cheers,
Grant
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