Where do we report bugs for certain programs? I have been using office 2013 for almost 4 weeks, and want to report what is working and not working. Granted I haven't tried it with the new update, but doubt they covered everything. On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Eric Damery <edam...@freedomscientific.com> wrote:
> Greetings List, > > Just wanted to make you aware that an update will be posted shortly. We have > been busy with adjustments to JAWS 14 since the December posting and I've > included the list of changes below. This will be an auto update which you > will be prompted to get when you restart JAWS, as soon as the release is live > today. > > Regards, > Eric > > Enhancements in JAWS 14.0.1534 (February 2013) > The following is a list of items addressed or added between the final JAWS > 14.0.1037 release and the JAWS 14.0.1534 posting. > JAWS > > * Several issues with selecting text using JAWS have been addressed. > * Addressed an issue where JAWS was not reading the correct information > when selecting various buttons that open drop down menus on the Facebook Web > site. For example, the edit or remove buttons. > * Resolved an issue with the Braille Study Mode on-the-fly command > WHIZWHEEL+NAVROW BUTTON not announcing and spelling the word as expected. > This only occured with Focus braille displays that contain WHIZWHEELS. > * Removed an unnecessary entry regarding braille panning from the list of > controls in the Define Structured Mode dialog box in Settings Center. > * Resolved a customer reported issue with JAWS not properly getting focus > in WPF applications when exiting a JAWS dialog box such as the Links List. > * Resolved a customer reported issue using the SecureCRT application in > Windows 8 where pressing INSERT+ALT+W to virtualize the window was not > opening the virtual viewer as expected. > * The default dot firmness for Freedom Scientific braille displays has > been changed to 100 percent, which is the highest setting. > * Resolved an issue where pressing WINDOWS Key+PAUSE to open the System > Properties dialog box was not working over a JAWS Tandem connection. > * When running JAWS and MAGic together, resolved an issue where using > Navigation Quick Key P to move by paragraph was moving by two paragraphs > instead of one. > * Addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS would unexpectedly close > when pressing ALT+TAB to move between Windows Explorer and a Command Prompt > window. > * When using JAWS over a Remote Desktop connection, resolved a reported > issue where the ALT key would sometimes become stuck under certain > circumstances. > * Addressed a reported issue with JAWS not reading tree views correctly in > Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. > * When using a Focus braille display with JAWS over a remote Terminal > Services connection, addressed issues with entering text in computer braille > or contracted braille from the Perkins-style keyboard on the Focus display. > Braille navigation worked as expected. > * Addressed an issue reading various symbols using the Danish Vocalizer > Direct voice. > * Added two new built-in script functions, CallFunctionByName and > PerformScriptByName, which take the name of the function or script to be run > as the first parameter. > * Resolved an issue with the CollectionCopy script function not copying > arrays properly. > * As requested by a customer, the BrailleString script function now works > even when flash messages are turned off. In addition, the flash message > prefix is no longer displayed as part of the text that is passed to the > function to be displayed. > Adobe Acrobat > > * Addressed an issue using the P and SHIFT+P Navigation Quick Keys to > navigate PDF forms. > * Addressed an intermittent issue with JAWS unexpectedly closing when > opening certain PDF files. > Microsoft Access > > * Addressed an issue with Access 2010 where JAWS was not announcing > controls as expected in the Backstage view. > Microsoft Excel > > * Resolved an issue in Excel 2010 where certain controls in the Insert > Hyperlink dialog box were not being spoken correctly when using TAB. > * When navigating in a comment, resolved an issue where the author's name > was not spoken or displayed in braille. > * If you attempt to override the automatically defined title for a > workbook that has defined titles using Quick Settings, the column/row options > are now changing to undefined as expected. > * Resolved an issue where pressing INSERT+F7 from the suggestions list in > the Spell Checker, was not displaying the spelling error in braille. > * Resolved an issue where pressing INSERT+F7 from the Spellchecker was not > announcing the misspelled word unless focus was on the Suggestions list. > * Added custom tutor help messages for various edit fields in the Data > Validation and Chart dialog boxes to provide more detailed information. > * If an edit combo box is opened from the ribbon, for instance, the Font > edit combo, resolved an issue where JAWS would not speak any of the values as > you navigated with the ARROW keys. > * If you apply formatting to a cell such as bold, resolved an issue where > it was reported incorrectly the first time you applied it. > * A new group, Monitoring Cell Assignments, has been added to the > Workbook, Worksheet, and Region Settings in the Quick Settings dialog box for > Excel. Previously, the options in this group were found under the Monitoring > Cells group. However, they were moved to this new group as they are worksheet > specific. The remaining option under the Monitoring Cells group applies > globally to all spreadsheets. The Quick Settings help messages for both > groups of settings have also been updated. > * In Excel 2003, Pressing INSERT+UP ARROW to read the current line now > works as expected in the File Name edit field of the Open and Save As dialog > boxes. > * When entering a formula using the functions list in Excel 2007 or later, > resolved an issue where JAWS was not automatically reading the formula bar > after pressing TAB to populate it with the selected function. > * Resolved a customer reported issue where Excel 2007 would unexpectedly > stop responding while performing a find with JAWS running. > * If you are editing a cell and the Excel option to move the focus > rectangle after ENTER is pressed is turned off, addressed a reported issue > where JAWS was not automatically speaking the contents of the cell after you > pressed ENTER to finish editing and return to the spreadsheet. > * Resolved an issue where JAWS was not speaking the Web addresses when > navigating in the Address edit combo of the Hyperlink dialog box. > Microsoft Internet Explorer > > * Addressed a customer reported issue where turning off the Screen Message > option in the Verbosity Preferences in Settings Center was causing table > titles to not read as expected while using table navigation commands. > * If you are navigating the list of favorites in Internet Explorer 9 using > braille and the list scrolls to a new screen, resolved an issue where the > braille display would no longer show the selected item unless you first > pressed UP ARROW and then DOWN ARROW. > * Addressed an issue with the SHIFT+COMMA and SHIFT+PERIOD commands for > moving to the beginning or end of the current element not working as expected > in block quotes. This was observed mainly in Internet Explorer 10 and Firefox > 17. > * Addressed an issue where nested lists in Internet Explorer 10 and > Firefox 17 were being treated as single lists. For example, a list containing > four items that contained a nested list with three items was being treated as > a single list of seven items. > * Addressed issues with column and row headers not being announced > properly while navigating tables using the table navigation keystrokes. This > was also addressed in Firefox. > * Resolved an issue where the start of certain lists containing graphical > items were not being indicated on some Web pages. This issue was also > resolved for Firefox. > * Resolved an issue that was encountered on certain Web pages including > Amazon.com where items that should have been on separate lines were being run > together on one line. > * Improved JAWS indication of embedded objects on Web pages in both > Internet Explorer and Firefox. > * Resolved an issue where clickable items were not being identified in > braille if the item containing the clickable attribute was inside of a table. > * When toggling the Document Presentation option through Quick Settings, > resolved an issue where the new setting would not take effect until you moved > away and then back to the application. This occured in both Internet Explorer > and Firefox. > * Resolved an issue where row header information was repeated multiple > times in tables that were formatted with axis and headers attributes. > * Addressed issues with some bulleted lists not being displayed correctly > in braille. > * Resolved issues using JAWS with ARIA checkable list boxes. > * Addressed issues with information not being shown correctly on the > braille display in the Internet Explorer 10 address bar on Windows 8. > * Addressed a customer reported issue with JAWS repeating check boxes > multiple times on certain Web pages that automatically refresh. > * If you press TAB to move to a group of radio buttons in Forms Mode, > addressed an issue where JAWS was not reading the prompt associated with the > radio button group. > Microsoft Office > > * Added new JAWS scripts for Microsoft Office 2013. You will now notice > improved performance if you are using Office 2013 versions of Word, Outlook, > Excel, or PowerPoint. > Microsoft Outlook > > * Added a new braille abbreviation for the meeting cancelation flag. If > you are focused on a message in an e-mail folder that contains a meeting > cancelation, the letters mcncl will be shown on the braille display. > * Resolved an issue that was encountered by a customer in the Out of > Office dialog box with the braille prompt for the message edit field not > being displayed correctly. > * If you Opened then closed a message, resolved an issue where you could > no longer open the context menu unless you moved focus away from the message > list and back. In addition, if you opened the context menu from the message > body, an issue was also addressed where the menu would unexpectedly close > while navigated. > * When navigating by line in the edit field of the Signatures dialog box, > resolved an intermittent issue where JAWS would sometimes read the previous > line instead of the current one. > * Resolved an issue where JAWS would not indicate the alt text for images > contained in Outlook 2010 messages while reading using Say All. > * Addressed an issue where you would sometimes hear extra, unnecessary > information while navigating a table in a message using the Table Layer > commands. > * If you are inside a read-only message containing a table and you press > ALT+TAB to move to an open Word document, JAWS no longer says "table 0" > before speaking the document info. > * Resolved an issue where split buttons in context menus were not being > shown on the braille display. > * Resolved an issue where extraneous text was shown on the braille display > when focused on the Search edit field. > * Resolved multiple issues with the Font Size edit combo box in Outlook > 2010 where braille would not show the new value while navigating with UP or > DOWN ARROW. In addition, the control type is now shown in braille. > * If you are typing an e-mail address into the To or CC fields and the > address is auto-completed, addressed an issue where the e-mail address was > announced twice. This only occured in Outlook 2010. > * If you open the context menu from the Inbox then press INSERT+H for hot > key help, resolved an issue where the help message stated you were in the > Calendar when you were not. > * When using Navigation Quick Key T or SHIFT+T to navigate by tables in a > virtualized message, JAWS no longer says "leaving table" since you are > actually entering the table. > * Addressed an issue where pressing ENTER on a link in an e-mail message > would sometimes open the wrong Web page. > * Addressed issues with routing the JAWS Cursor to the location of the > Virtual PC Cursor in certain messages. > * Resolved an issue with section symbols sometimes appearing in certain > types of bulleted lists in virtualized messages. > * When focused on an item in the list of messages that has a flag such as > "unread", "forwarded", "replied", and so on, addressed an issue where the > word "message" was being shown on the braille display prior to the message > flag. > * If you are in an empty mail folder, resolved an issue where column > headers were still being shown in braille. > * If you are navigating through a list of messages in Outlook 2010 and the > screen scrolls, addressed an issue where JAWS would only read message flags > and would no longer read header information. > * If the Use Virtual PC Cursor for Read-only Messages option in Quick > Settings is disabled and you press UP ARROW from the top of the message or > DOWN ARROW from the bottom of the message, resolved an issue where the cursor > was unexpectedly wrapping around back to the beginning or end respectively. > * When reading using Say All in certain messages, resolved an issue where > the same block of text would sometimes repeat continuously until you stopped > the Say All. > * If the mouse is used to click on a link in a virtualized message, the > link is now opened as expected instead of just selecting the text. > * Resolved an issue using the CTRL+COMMA keystroke to insert special > symbols into an e-mail message. For example, to insert a c cedilla, press > CTRL+COMMA, followed by C. > * When composing or editing an HTML message and a link is included inside > a list, addressed a braille issue where dots 7 and 8, used to underline the > link text, was positioned to the left instead of directly under the link. > * When attempting to select text in a virtualized e-mail message, > addressed an issue where more text than expected was being selected. > * Message flags are now read correctly in the German version of Outlook. > Microsoft PowerPoint > > * If you are typing text into a slide and you exceed the boundaries of the > edit field, addressed an issue where JAWS was not automatically speaking the > over flow alert message when you press ESC to return to the object level. > * Addressed issues with braille not tracking as expected when editing a > slide. > Microsoft Visual Studio > > * JAWS no longer reads extraneous information while navigating an SQL grid > in Visual Studio 2010. > * If you are navigating an sql database table, JAWS now displays the cell > values in braille. > Microsoft Word > > * If you switch back to Word and then press BACKSPACE, addressed an issue > where JAWS would announce the page number in addition to the character being > deleted. This was observed in Word 2007. > * Addressed a customer reported issue where pressing UP OR DOWN arrow to > change the values in an edit spin box was not working as expected. > * If you open a document that causes the Convert File dialog box to open, > addressed an issue where you could not use the TAB key to move to the OK or > Cancel buttons. > * When clearing titles for a table in Quick Settings, resolved an issue > where it was difficult to determine what had been cleared when manually > clearing titles. > * Addressed an issue where JAWS was not announcing the bullets in a > bulleted list when navigating using the JAWS or Invisible Cursor. > * When in a table, resolved an issue where changing braille to display the > current row or column was still only displaying the current cell. Braille > table reading can be changed through Quick Settings, or by pressing RIGHT > SHIFT+T (RIGHT SHIFT+DOTS 2-3-4-5) from the Focus braille displays. > * If the New lines and paragraphs indication option is changed through > Quick Settings and you then turn off the displaying of paragraph marks in the > Word document, addressed an issue where JAWS would still behave as iff > paragraph marks were still visible until you moved focus away then back to > the document. > Mozilla Firefox > > * JAWS now indicates when text on a Web page is clickable. If a section of > text is clickable, you can press ENTER on it to perform an action, such as > opening a list of items. > * If you are composing or replying to a message using the GMail Web site, > resolved an issue where pressing DOWN ARROW to move out of the edit field was > skipping over the Send button. > * Resolved issues with ARIA menus on certain Web pages where you sometimes > had to press ENTER twice to activate the menu. > * When navigating through a menu, resolved an issue where JAWS would say > "leaving menu" if you navigated to a checkable menu item. > * Addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS was not indicating a page > separator if it was preceded by a heading. > * If you are in an ARIA grid and Edit Mode is active, pressing the ESC key > will exit Edit Mode, however, Forms Mode will still be active so you can > continue navigating the cells in the grid. Pressing ESC once more will exit > Forms Mode. > * Resolved an issue with navigating certain types of ARIA grids where JAWS > would not indicate if a cell contained controls. > * Addressed an issue where JAWS was not properly indicating the Main ARIA > region on some Web pages. > * When using the ARROW keys to navigate through ARIA tab controls on a Web > page, addressed an issue where JAWS was not indicating the currently selected > tab. > * Pressing ALT+ENTER on a graphic containing a long description now opens > and displays the description in a new tab. > Mozilla Thunderbird > > * Pressing INSERT+ALT+1 through 5 from an open message now reads message > fields as expected. > * Resolved an issue where JAWS was not speaking the file names as you > navigate the list of files in the File Selection dialog box. > * JAWS now properly reads auto-completed addresses using the latest > version of Thunderbird. > Windows Explorer > > * When viewing the properties for a folder, resolved an issue where > pressing INSERT+B was not reading the contents of the dialog box as expected. > Windows 8 > > * When you press and hold ALT and then press TAB to cycle through all > running applications, resolved an issue where the application names were not > being shown in braille. > * Addressed an intermittent issue where JAWS would announce that a menu > was active when it was not after establishing a network connection. > * Resolved an issue where pressing INSERT+PAGE DOWN was not reading the > status line as expected in various applications if the window was maximized. > * If JAWS is configured to use a different sound device other than the > default sound card, addressed an issue where JAWS sounds such as entering and > exiting Forms Mode were still being heard through the default sound card. > > > Eric Damery > Vice President > Software Product Management > Freedom Scientific > 11800 31st Court North > St. Petersburg, FL 33716 > 727-299-6110 > > 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/
