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

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sun Jun 21 03:34:03 UTC 2009


I mis-typed.  Sorry, no still Freedom Scientific 
-- showing my age in multiple ways.

Dave

At 10:52 PM 6/17/2009, you wrote:
>HJ? They bought Jaws back from FS? In this economy? Whew. But what's a "hot
>fix?"
>
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>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Latest Jaws update. Worth the bother to download and
>install?
>
>
>HJ has said that this is the last version 10.x
>release.  Not updating won't have any effect on
>your version 11 when it is released, probably this fall.
>
>Dave
>
>At 02:43 PM 6/17/2009, you 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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