Greetings Everyone

As a person who uses Jaws exclusively with a braille display
(with only the occasional foray into Eloqeunce), I must admit to
continuing disappointment with the betas that HJ releases. To
mention three points in relation to the new JFW3.5 beta: the
cursor routing buttons still do not work in virtualcursor mode;
the panright function still does not work properly in some
applications (it worked fine in 3.3, but hasn't worked properly
since), and there is a lot of "chatter" on the braille display in
some web pages, which was not there in previous versions. My
disappointment arises from the fact that at least two of these
problems have been reported to HJ on a number of occasions, but
it's as if our reports are being absorbed into a black hole.

While braille displays are expensive, and so not as widely-used
as speech, braille does, in my view, provide an efficient and
effective way of using Windows applications. I and others
continue to report braille-related problems to HJ, and although
the new version has a lot of potential with some exciting new
features, I can't help feeling that there is a case for
consolidating and streamlining what is already there, before
embarking on an ambitious campaign of enhancements.

I would be interested in comments from other braille users on the
new beta

By the way, there seems to be a prooblem with the HJ servers at
the moment: all email is being returned undeliverable, and the
web page is down.

Cheers
Bruce Maguire

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