[gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to downloadand install?

[albert griffith]

Wayne, I agree with your position but often those who ask about the value of
an update are not as tech savvy as you.  Therefore, I think their safest bet
would be to install them as they arrive.  It takes little time and can't
hurt them.  However, I feel these inquires are advisable if the update
concerns another program because installing it may render the program
inaccessible.  Itunes is a good example.  

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:47 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to downloadand
install?

Perhaps the reason why people don't install updates right away is that
the udpate doesn't apply to how they use JAWS with Windows or other
programs. Yes, I do feel sorry when I come across someone who is still
using JAWS 5 and hasn't bothered to do an update, whether it be for
money or whatever other reason. Certainly do major updates. But, as
for myself, if the minor update doesn't address something I use on a
regular basis, then there's a good chance I'm going to skip that one.
Granted, this hasn't happened a lot, but it has with this update from
this week. When I get the "next" update, whenever that is, I willhave
caught up with the "early adopters." If you don't bother getting a
major update though because you might think it doesn't apply to you,
then you are shooting yourself in the foot and hurting your
accessibility options. If said person then proceeds to complain about
the hundreds of dollars they are having to spend in order to catch up,
instead of just getting the major updates when they came out and
keeping their SMA's up to date, then they'll get no sympathy from me,
speaking hypathetically of course.

Wayne

On 6/17/09, albert griffith <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Chris, what you say is right on.  There aren't any negative consequences
> connected with installing an update and there may be for not doing so.
> Every time an update is released people go buggy asking questions about if
> they're worth it.  Folks, install service packs and updates for jaws!
Just
> so I'm not misunderstood: updates for other programs should be questioned
> because the installation may make the program inaccessible or in some
other
> way cause it to conflict with jaws but this is never true of jaws updates.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:59 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to
downloadand
> install?
>
> Also, try to remember that JAWS updates are like service packs for
Windows,
> so they'll just be as important as Windows service packs. If you do not
wish
>
> to update then consider the consequences.
>
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> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:19 PM
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to
> downloadandinstall?> All jaws updates are worth the bother to install.
They
> are to fix things
>> that are wrong with the present version or to add important features.
>> It's
>> very easy to use the update feature so installing the update won't take
>> anyone more than a few minutes.  Try to remember Freedom Scientific
>> doesn't
>> put these out for no reason.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:43 PM
>> To: GUI-Talk
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to download and
>> install?
>>
>> 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 iTunesR 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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