Hi, after investing in new computer, latest JAWs, and in my job forced to use Office 2013 on Windows 8, I cannot believe that in 2015 FreedomScientific have allowed broken spell-check short-cuts to remain as something we just have to tolerate with the Win8/Office 2013 combination.
Appreciate Microsoft are to be blamed, breaking APIs etc, but surely JAWs scripting is how we remedy things like this? Can't Freedom just include scripts to provide the short-cuts for 'change-all, ignore, add to dictionary, etc with their distributions? For blind users in a professional environment, its more important any aspect of any feature to help us with ensuring our work is presented as well as possible is still working, and spell checking being so fundamental seems high enough a priority to surely dedicate some Freedom Scientific script writing or bug fixing effort! Has anyone got work-arounds or perhaps got a script you could send me to get something working again that was working perfectly fine over the last 18 years??? Yes, I know we can tab through to get to those options, but we need to optimise/improve the efficiency of these trivial tasks to stand a chance at keeping our productivity up in a professional environment. Also, why again in 2015 do 'pic-list' combo lists in MS Excel still not read out by JAWS 16? I'm using VB Forms too to make MS Access DB updates, and was told by my UK JAWS tech support that hardly anyone uses MS Access in the blind community. Nonsense surely! Lack of Forms access verbosity settings might suggest a lack of dev effort from Freedom in this area too. Selecting from combo lists in these forms with JAWS running kills MS Access too, 25% CPU consumption. With no JAWS, there is no performance hit when combo selecting. Again, more basic bugs surely easy to fix! So, thought I'd email this list to off load my frustrations at finding long standing features still not working impacting on my ability to do my daily work in the same way as my sighted colleagues. Brian UW_AD_LOGO1_RGB Brian Anthony Authorised Distributor N17075 www.savewithbrian.co.uk Tel: 07446944545 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150426/308af46c/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6775 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150426/308af46c/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
