[gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to download andinstall?

[Joel Deutsch]

Wayne,

thanks for the thoughts. I did do the update, anyway, and I hope it'll work 
okay. Same as you, I haven't any need for those two bug fixes or functions. 
But someone else here hinted sort of broadly that I might be making myself 
vulnerable to some serious problems if I declined the update, and I haven't 
heard just exactly what that might mean. But whatever, like/as they say.

You mention teaching and  your students. What are you teaching, Jaws 
specifically? Or that and some other skills?

Joel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to download 
andinstall?


zzzjoel, you're using a good measuring stick to determine if you
should get the update; if it doesn't benefit you in any way, then skip
it. So far I have had no need for track changes in Word, since I don't
really collaborate on any documents between my colleagues, and I
couldn't care less about iTunes. So, since there's nothing there for
me, then I'll just wait for the next minor/major update. And, if that
next update includes these changes, then fine, but I likely won't run
out and start using track changes just because they work better with
JAWS. Sometimes, I'll get an update because I can invision my students
using said features and I want to be using what they'll be using.
However, track changes goes beyond what we teach students where I
work, so no worries there. If enough people have trouble with an
update, then I'd like to think that FS would release a fix for the
last round of fixes, but who knows.

Jmt,
Wayne

On 6/17/09, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I've just been to the FS page where they talk about the bug fixes and
> improvements in succeeding releases/builds of Jaws 10, and the two things
> below are all that seems is new this time around. let's be practical,
> though. If I don't bother to install this update, will having failed to do
> so cause me some trouble later when another update is posted, or when it's
> time for me to install Jaws 11? I don't want to inconvenience myself like
> that, but still I'm leery of dutifully installing each new update without
> question when I hear someone complain that doing so screwed them up in 
> some
> way. Here are the only two items I found that look like changes in this 
> new
> build, and neither of these things is of any use to me:
>
> a.. Resolved an issue where JAWS would not properly read the playlist 
> window
> in the latest iTunes® 8 automatic update.
> a.. Resolved a reported issue with how JAWS worked with the Track Changes
> feature in Word. Speech and braille were not working correctly for any
> markups once the view was set to Final.
> any comments from anybody who's already installed this build? Personally, 
> I
> always download from the site, and never use the update feature on the 
> Help
> menu. I've heard too many people say it doesn't work well for them, and I
> feel safer just doing it myself. Don't want to get into an argument about
> this if there are several passionate opinions. thanks for understanding.
> civility is everything.
>
>
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