[blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes

[tim at timeldermusic.com]

Understood.  I forwarded this to a contact at Microsoft to see if they could
do anything while we wait on whatever the developer of JAWS is calling
itself these days.  I've also been slowly learning NVDA to diversify my
technology tools.


-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 6:25 PM
To: tim at timeldermusic.com
Cc: 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.

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> 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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