[Trainer-talk] JAWS 16/Quick Summaries of FSCast Podcasts

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Thanks David for this update
Denise


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:37 AM, David Goldfield via Trainer-talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> First, there is a new feature called JAWS Command Search. This is
> helpful if you’re looking for a specific command but can’t remember the
> keystroke used to invoke it. As an example, suppose you want to know
> the keystroke to read the current line of text in a document. With JAWS
> 16, you’ll be able to issue the Commands Search feature and type the
> word “line” and JAWS will give you a list of commands with that
> particular word. Not only that, you’ll be able to press the enter key
> while pointing to that command to actually issue it.
> The other feature that they just announced today is the ability to read
> PDF documents which are just scanned images. We’ve all been in the
> situation where we open a PDF file and JAWS says that it’s an empty
> document. In actuality, the document is likely not empty but is a
> picture or image of the text. This is visually not a problem but screen
> readers can’t process pictures. With JAWS 16, you’ll be able to read
> those image files just like any other document or Web page. Btw, JAWS
> can already do this to a point as it can perform character recognition
> on text within an image that is in the current window or on the screen
> but you can’t process an entire document. With JAWS 16, this will be
> possible.
>
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