Again very impressive list of features and fixes, my complements. David Ferrin Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones that mind don't matter. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Damery" <edam...@freedomscientific.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 9:35 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 14 update posting on Monday, Feb 4th
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/
