[Pibe-division] UPDATE, update and sometimes update

Dr. Denise M. Robinson dmehlenbacher at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 23 15:28:15 UTC 2011


UPDATE, update and sometimes update 
I have had many past students and people who just found me along the way ask why their Jaws does not work well with the Internet any more. As 
soon as I ask them what version of JAWS they are using, I have my 
answer. 

In general, when you update the Internet, you need to update your Jaws. 
Example, when JAWS 9 was out, it ran great with Internet explorer 7 
(IE7), but then IE8 came out and if you did not update to JAWS 10 you 
would have problems. JAWS 11 worked even better with IE8 and JAWS 12 
works great. So, if you would have purchased the upgrades when your 
purchased JAWS 10, you would be a happy camper because the upgrade fee 
would have been a lot cheaper than buying 3 whole new licenses.

Exceptions to the rule. However, when IE9 came out, JAWS 12 did not work
 well with it. IE9 needed a lot of work and JAWS worked on its updates 
also to make these 2 work together. Now it works well...but that took 
months.

In general, if your JAWS is working well with what you have, don't be 
anxious to update quickly. Let the companies work out the bugs in their 
hardware and software. Talk to people around you about their experiences
 and when you get the green light, update your JAWS and Internet 
together. And if you are having problems with your JAWS, it is  most 
likely too old. 
 
       Denise 
 
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853     deniserob at gmail.com
 
http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
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