just to let you all know mouse echo is nothing new. NVDA has had very
good mouse echo for the past 6 years or so now. Jaws is pretty much just
now copying what NVDA has already done. Making jaws run faster and
restricting virtual cursor to dialogs on websites is good though and I
may use that feature.
On 9/10/2016 9:42 PM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:
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
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