[NFBCS] JAWS, PuTTY and caret tracking

[Jim Barbour]

Hey all,

I am very new to using terminals in windows with jaws.

Can someone explain a little bit about how carot tracking helps?

Thanks,

Jim

Written while on the move,, 

> On Sep 14, 2020, at 6:49 AM, Aaron Cannon via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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