All: I originally posted this. I have officially gone back to JAWS 15 for track changes. Here is why.
I have both JAWS 15 and 16 on my Windows 8.1 machine. So, I thought it would be a good test. In the same document, on the same machine, using the same Word 2010, and the same Windows 8.1 operating system, I found these differences: In the review ribbon under track changes: JAWS 15 read all of the “options” in the track changes ribbon JAWS 16 botched the prompts, reading a heading instead of, for example, the color. I had to use JAWS Key plus up arrow to read the prompts (and then it was laborious). With insertions set to grey and deletions set to green: In the same document, JAWS 15 consistently read colors; however JAWS’s description of the colors did not match Microsoft’s color description. JAWS 16 completely failed, reading “black on white” or “black on black.” I guess I would rather have a wrong color than no color. The above is not scientific or conclusive, but it is enough to cause me to keep my JAWS 15 loaded and active. I think this is a nother case where Freedom Scientific either fixed something and broke something else or added a feature somewhere that broke functionality elsewhere. This is a significant reverse in functionality. I am not even going to load JAWS 16 on my Windows 7 machine, which I use at work. Have a great day! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150417/17f633b3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
