Hi Keith It is worth bearing in mind that when Jaws 12 was released it might have worked with a version earlier than the one you have i.e. 10,0,0,000. They can in no way know that Yahoo will do an incremental update to Messenger which will then not work because Jaws wrote in for Yahoo M 10.0.
This is the same for all software no matter who makes it and remember there are thousands of software titles out there. Jaws can only support the most popular ones but you really cannot expect them to be Fortune Tellers to be able to predict that Company X is going to update product Y and they have to remember to build in accessibility! Similar things have happened lately, which is why there have been 3 if not 4 incremental updates to Jaws 12 for Microsoft Office 2010 and Apple iTunes, because both companies did incremental updates which then affected how Jaws 12 worked with them. Because these were 2 high profile, high common usage programs Jaws did quite well in releasing updates they did not have to address if they did not want to, until the next major release. Please please remember the above before complaining that programs won't work because that an incremental update has taken place, which as far as a screen reader is concerned can knock out of jaws radar and will not work properly. It is also commonly known that some software publishers has no idea of accessibility whatsoever where as if their programmers knew what was out there, and aware of guidelines in place to make software more accessible this wouldn't be a problem, because when it comes to Windows one of the worst offenders are Microsoft themselves! You only need to look at Windows Mobile 7 to note they have built in no accessibility! Also if you take MS Office for the Mac they have not built accessibility into that either. The above applies to all operating systems and I really do not want to go off topic, but from the above you can apply the thinking to all software titles and apps for computers and mobile phones and until you get this concept you will never understand how difficult it is for people to program in accessibility. Sorry folks if this is a bit long drawn out but I felt this point, so often over-looked by people, needed to be pointed out. Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) & Elliot RTG (Retired Guide Dog) London, UK -----Original Message----- From: jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of David Ferrin Sent: 14 May 2011 17:45 To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS Support in future releases like 13 for latest build of Yahoo Messenger 10. If you wish to contact Eric regarding such matters please do it directly in the future. David Ferrin You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint1...@gmail.com> To: "jaws-users-list" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 12:07 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS Support in future releases like 13 for latest build of Yahoo Messenger 10. Hello Eric and others on this list, I have downloaded and isntalled the latest build of JAWS12 that is available, and also downloaded Yahoo Messenger. While I am happy to tel you folks that though JAWS works well with the latest AOL Instant Messenger7 build, it does not work well with Yahoo Messenger 10. The version I'm running is version: Yahoo! Messenger Version 10,0,0,1270 I'm somewhat disappointed that JAWS does not support this, and hope that JAWS13 or something else to be released will have support for this. Thanks everyone. If anyone else can comment as to if JAWS will support this program in future please let me know. Thanks! -- Regards, --Keith Website: http://www.keithnet.us Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithin...@hotmail.com Yahoo/AIM/Twitter: keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1 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/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
