[NFBCS] JAWS, PuTTY and caret tracking

[Aaron Cannon]

Thank you!

This fix is very much appreciated.

I'll be sure to speak up if it doesn't work.

Thanks again.

Aaron Cannon

On 9/14/20, Glen Gordon via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> A month or so back there was a long discussion about remote editing on Linux
> systems. As part of that, several people mentioned that when using PuTTY
> with JAWS that the caret wasn't properly being tracked. This befuddled me,
> knowing that we had worked really hard to rectify this back in 2019, but
> apparently not hard enough. At that time we fixed it for computers running
> at 96 DPI but had not tested with higher DPI settings back then. As it turns
> out, JAWS was not tracking the caret on any systems running at 128 DPI or
> greater, which essentially made it unusable with laptops.
>
> I'm pleased to say that this has been resolved in public beta 1 of JAWS 2021
> which is available now. Anybody with a JAWS 2020 license can run the public
> beta without uninstalling JAWS 2020. This change will also be in the next
> JAWS 2020 update but that won't come  until later in the year.
>
> If you try this, please let me know your results, especially if caret
> tracking still doesn't work for you.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Glen
>
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