If someone has the direct link to the beta, please post it. For some reason, I can't seem to get to anything but 10. Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Damery" <edam...@freedomscientific.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:02 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 11 Public Beta Update posted September 8th All, We have just gone live with the first update to the public beta version of JAWS 11. You can get this update two ways. 1. Use your check for update feature in the Help Menu of JAWS 11 Public Beta version. 2. Go to the Download link for JAWS 11.0..536 and download the full build to your machine and install it. Note, you can install it right over top of the first one or you can install it on a machine without having ever installed the first public beta. Makes no difference. The full list of enhancements will be posted to the What's New page on September 9th. Below is the changes to the "Research It" feature which we hope you will all look at and try out with the new build. Regards, Eric Damery Freedom Scientific Research It Note: For a demonstration of Research It, listen to the August 2009 FSCast. Features such as Web Slices in Internet Explorer 8 and gadgets saved in your Windows Sidebar are intended to make it easy for you to quickly obtain information. This material is presented in a format that is quick to scan visually. However, when using assistive technology tools, there is often extra information presented that is easier to ignore visually than when listening or reading with braille. Research It is a new feature that provides quick access to information while also making it easy to return to your primary task. Use just a few keystrokes to look up information and display salient data in the Virtual Viewer. When you have finished researching, press another keystroke to return to the task you were performing before the research started. All that is required to use Research It is an Internet connection. There are multiple ways to launch and use Research It. By default, Wiktionary is the primary look up source. This means that while the cursor is on a word in a document or Web page, you can press the default keystroke, INSERT+WINDOWS Key+R, to quickly lookup the Wiktionary description for that word. You can always change the primary lookup source at any time using the JAWS Configuration Manager, which lets you select which lookup source to use as the JAWS default or as the default for individual applications. As you become more familiar with Research It, and as more lookup modules are created and made available to you, you will want to change the default look up source used by JAWS, or just use a different look up source on the fly. The most efficient way to search for a term is to use the new layered keystroke, INSERT+SPACEBAR, R. By pressing and releasing INSERT+SPACEBAR, and then pressing R, you can open the Research It edit field to type a word or expression of interest. This can be a zip code, or city and state, or city and country that can be used with the Weather look up tool to read a forecast, or a date that is used to view baseball or football schedules and scores, or a word to use with the Wikipedia search query to view its meaning or description. After viewing these results, press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer window and return to your original focus point. If you are a software developer or script developer, you can create and customize your own lookup module DLL and tailor it to your organization's needs. For example, if your company specializes in medical equipment, you can create a lookup source that is essentially a glossary of medical and industry terms. A developer's guide that outlines formatting for rule sets and debugging techniques is available at Research It Developer's Guide. The next section provides examples of how to use Research It. If you need more information, refer to the Research It topic in the JAWS help file. Research It Examples The following shows how you can use the Weather, Wikipedia, NFL Scores, and Reuters Top News Stories search options in Research It to look up specific information. Use the Weather lookup source to receive the current weather forecast for any location based on city name, airport code, or zip code. The following example uses the INSERT+SPACEBAR, R keystroke. Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, R to open the Research It edit field. In the edit field, type your current location, for example, St. Petersburg, Florida, or your local airport code, for example, TPA, or your local zip code, for example, 33771, and then press ENTER. The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available resource items. The primary search item always appears first in the list. Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to select Weather and then press ENTER. After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and displays the weather forecast for the entered location. After reading the information, press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer. You can use Wikipedia to quickly research an item. The following example uses the INSERT+CTRL+WINDOWS Key+R keystroke. Press INSERT+CTRL+WINDOWS Key+R to open the Research It edit field. In the edit field, type the term that you want to look up, for example, Freedom Scientific, and press ENTER. The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available resource items. The primary search item always appears first in the list. Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to select Wikipedia and then press ENTER. After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and displays the results returned from the Wikipedia look up. Press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer. If you want to look at the NFL schedule or scores for Sunday, October 4, 2009, use the NFL Scores look up source as described in the following procedure. Press INSERT+SPACEBAR, R to open the Research It edit field. In the edit field, type the date using the MM/DD/YYYY format, for example, 10/04/2009, and press ENTER. The Research It dialog box opens with a list of available resource items. The primary search item always appears first in the list. Use the UP and DOWN ARROWS or first letter navigation to select NFL Scores and then press ENTER. After 2 or 3 seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and displays a list of games scheduled for that day. Press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer. For a summary of current news stories, you can set Reuters news service as your primary look up source, and then issue the default Research It keystroke so that you can review the news summary from any application. To do this, first configure the primary look up source as described in the following procedure. Note: This example uses the Default.JCF file. If you want to select the primary look up for a specific application, use JAWS Configuration Manager to open that application's .JCF file. Press INSERT+F2 to open the Run JAWS Manager dialog box. Press C to navigate to Configuration Manager in the list and then press ENTER. Press CTRL+SHIFT+D to open the Default configuration file Press ALT+S and then R to open the Research It Options dialog box. Press UP or DOWN ARROW to select a lookup source, and then press TAB to move to the Set Primary button. Press SPACEBAR to make the selected item the primary lookup module. Select OK to save changes and close the Research It Options dialog box. Press ALT+F followed by S to save Configuration Manager changes, and then ALT+F4 to close Configuration Manager. Now that Reuters is the set as the primary look up source, do the following to retrieve the latest news stories. Press INSERT+WINDOWS Key+R. After a few seconds, the Virtual Viewer window opens and displays a synopsis of the top five news stories. If you want more information about a specific story, select its Full Article link. This action closes the Virtual Viewer window and then displays the complete story in a Web browser. Otherwise, press ESC to close the Virtual Viewer. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
