Great information, Ed. Thanks for posting your findings. I'll be staying with jaws 15 for now as well.
Kimber On 4/17/15, Ed Marquette via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
