[blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes

[Rahul Bajaj]

Steve, many of us reached out to Freedom Scientific about this and the
somewhat improved, albeit imperfect, system that we now have is the
product of that exercise.

Best,
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On 18/12/2018, Steve Jacobson via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Has anyone verified if NVDA provides more accurate feedback?  Also, is
> anyone in communication with JAWS on this?  I am sorry if this was stated
> earlier.  However, if NVDA handles this aspect correctly, then one can
> definitely lean on JAWS.  Ideally, the problem should be described to JAWS
> and a document exhibiting the problem should be attached as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Laura Wolk via
> BlindLaw
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 8:25 PM
> To: tim at timeldermusic.com
> Cc: Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com>; Blind Law Mailing List
> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes
>
> Nope. Not an option. And though 2010 didn't crash nearly as much as the
> newer versions, it still couldn't handle documents with more than a hundred
> or so revisions. Which, you know, is basically every round of editing a
> brief or large filing of any kind. Using 2010 was my work-around for 6
> years. But I'm really getting fed up. It'd be great if we all colectively
> could put pressure on Jaws to actually give us the tools we need to succeed
> and be on equal footing with our peers.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 17, 2018, at 8:05 PM, <tim at timeldermusic.com>
> <tim at timeldermusic.com> wrote:
>>
>> Track changes in newly created Word documents still work reliably in
> Office 2010 if using an older machine for this kind of task is an option.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 11:22 AM
>> To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes
>>
>> I'm providing an update to this topic, as it generated a lot of traffic
> and I'd love to spare another lawyer the risk of relying on this $1,000
> disappointment to his professional detriment.
>>
>> Jaws still does not announce the correct number of revisions.
>> Instead, after taking up to 30 or 45 seconds sometimes, it will announce
>> a
> much larger number that still isn't always accurate.  This is actually
> worse
> than when it simply said there were no revisions to display, since we all
> knew that was incorrect.  now it gives the false sense of security that you
> have, in fact, looked at every revision when there could be a hundred more
> that are not displaying that you haven't reviewed.  note that though this
> isn't a terrible inconvenience when you are integrating all changes into
> one
> draft from only one document, it is a huge problem if you are receiving
> multiple streams of edits from multiple sources that you are trying to
> accept/reject and then compile into one final draft.  So be forewarned,
> Jaws
> is sstill failing abysmally at providing us with the elementary tools
> needed
> in 2018 to maintain "Job access."
>>
>>
>>
>
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