Hello all: After listening to the latest Freedom Scientific podcast in which Eric Damri tells us about the innovations of the upcoming update of JAWS to version 18, the new regular mouse echo motivated me to do what I usually do not do, to install and try the Beta 1 version.
I did and was pleasantly surprised with the functionality of JAWS 18, so far so good, it seems fast, works well with Outlook 2016, IE 11, Skype and everything I have done so far, I am happy with it and have already asked the VA to update me, although unfortunately, they do not purchase SMAs, they wait until the production version comes out. I just want to make two ubservations: the first one is that the transferring of all the custom settings from JAWS 17 to JAWS 18, although the dialog came up and I went through it, did not happen; I had to make the changes manually. The second is that the mouse echo seems to work very well, but for someone totally blind like me, it will take some practice to learn to use it efficiently, to know where the icons and other controls, as well as the borders, are on the screen; also through practice, learn to move it slower, for I tend to move it too fast. All in all however, I recommend all users of JAWS 17 to try it, I think it is worth it. Kind regards, Humberto Humberto Rodriguez Fort White, Florida For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
