Hello David,
This is a follow up about Quicken 2003 and Jaws 10. I contacted
Freedom Scientific support and I pasted the response below.
I did a little experiment. I removed the scripts from Jaws 10
temporarily and inserted the scripts from Jaws 9 and Jaws 10 still
performed the same as it did which the Jaws 10 original scripts. So,
I surmise that the scripts are the same as you pointed out
previously. I am guessing that the problem is some change in Jaws 10.
The response from Freedom Scientific is disturbing and it might be a
serious problem in the future with keeping track of checks and
reconciling with the bank.
The response follows:
Thank you for contacting Freedom Scientific Support.
According to JAWS 10 help, JAWS 10 does not have built in support for
Quicken. If Quicken worked with JAWS 9, we suggest leaving JAWS 9 on
your system for use with Quicken. JAWS 10 does not have built in help or
support for Quicken.
If you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact
us.
Thank you for choosing Freedom Scientific!
Lennie
At 01:38 PM 1/15/2009, you wrote:
Well I'm thinking that it might just be possible to place the script files
from 9 for Quicken in to your settings directory for 10. Tell you what I'm
going to do if memory serves me not to forget of course, I'll do a compare
of the two sets of scripts and if I find the 9 scripts work better maybe
I'll post them on the server for others to use as well. Yes it is true that
many of these companies that produce financial software aren't very open to
our little sub community, and if they won't meet FS half way so to speak
there's not much they can do on their end for us.
David Ferrin
I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I'll probably screw that one up
too.
- Original Message -
From: "Lennie Rinaldi"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Quicken 2003 and Jaws 10
Hello David,
I can use quicken 2003 okay with Jaws 10, but Jaws 9 did a much
better job with it.
I have several issues with Jaws 10 and Quicken 2003.
1. In Jaws 9 when you make a date change, Jaws will say the complete
date automatically. In Jaws 10, you have to do say line to hear the
date. This is also true for the payee, amount and the memo fields.
2. In Jaws 10, as you tab to the payee field, Jaws says Payee and
when you tab to the amount field, Jaws says not found, How do I?and
then says payee again.
3. In the payee and amount fields, as you type the information in,
Jaws 10 will not speak the completed text whereas in Jaws 9 will
speak the complete text when you finish.
4. In both Jaws 9 and Jaws 10, Jaws speaks payee again in the category
field.
Any time I go into Quicken, I unload Jaws 10 and bring up Jaws 9
since it seems to work better with that version. However, I would
like to keep Jaws 10 running instead of flipping back and forth.
Perhaps, these issues may be minor to most people, but I use Quicken
quite frequently. I really believe that Freedom Scientific is not
supporting Quicken mainly since Intuit are not the most friendly
people to deal with, at least that what I have heard.
One more note. I did notice that the scripts for Quicken in version
9 has scripts with the name Quicken2000 which is not included in Jaws
10 scripts. This may be due to the fact Jaws 10 does not support
window 2000 anymore?
Any comments, suggestions or advice on how to improve Quicken 2003
will greatly be appreciated. I noticed that Dana is using Quicken
2005, but I figured that it makes no sense to upgrade Quicken if
Freedom Scientific is not going to support it.
Thanks and try to say warm!
Lennie
At 07:46 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote:
>There has not been a problem here at all. I've been using Quicken 2003 for
>over 4 years already through versions of jaws right up until the present
>day. What specifically is the issue. Honestly I've never looked at the
>Quicken scripts to compare.
>David Ferrin
>I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I'll probably screw that one up
>too.
>- Original Message -
>From: "Lennie Rinaldi"
>To:
>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:25 PM
>Subject: [JAWS-Users] Quicken 2003 and Jaws 10
>
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have been using Quicken 2003 since it became available and I have
>no problem with it in prior versions of Jaws.
>
>Quicken is somewhat manageable in Jaws 10. However, I found that it
>does not work quite as well with that version. I checked popular
>application in Jaws 10 and Quicken is not listed, but it is listed in Jaws
>9.
>
>I also checked Quicken scripts for Jaws 10 and I noticed that there
>are fewer scripts there than in Jaws 9.
>
>Has anyone else having problems with Quicken in Jaws 10? I was
>thinking of copying the scripts from Jaws 9 and insert them in Jaws
>10, but I don't want to create more problems.
>
>Any thoughts or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lennie
>
>
>
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