Hi.
I suspect that the reason you haven't seen any fixes for JAWS 7.10 is
because all of the development energy is going into JAWS 8.0. But
reporting it still is a good idea.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 11:49 AM 10/31/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>John,
>
>I haven't seen the problems with Outlook Express, or Yahoo Messenger,
>but I don't use either of those programs. I have seen the tab
>problems in I.E., and I suspect they happen because JAWS is having
>difficulty determining where it is on the screen, and so it loses
>focus. This problem was reported to FS by a friend of mine back in
>July, and he never received any response from them. Maybe we should
>all report our problems to FS and hope that they pay attention to
>numbers. It's at least as useful as complaining to each other on this list.
>
>Steve
>
>On Tuesday 10/31/06 11:29 John Miller wrote:
> >Well, my favorite problem is when ever I close outlook express, jaws 7.1
> >goes bye bye, if I'm using a SAPI5 voice it doesn't do it but anything else
> >I have does every time, I seem to have stability problems with IE, the tab
> >button doesn't track with the arrow keys on web pates like it always has,
> >using the tab key seems very sluggish too. It wasn't working in yahoo
> >messenger hardly at all but I fixed that I think, there was more but I
> >don't remember it anymore. The outlook express issue was the biggest for me
> >though, especially where a lot of people were having it before the July
> >update and some still are. I can't have that, I exit out of outlook express
> >when I leave the house but like to leave the computer on from when I wake up
> >to when I go to bed if not round the clock some days.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:04 AM
> >Subject: Re: Off Topic - Jaws 7.1 Memory requirements
> >
> >
> > > John,
> > >
> > > You may have already told us and I missed it, but what problems have
> > > you run into with 7.1? I know there are some, particularly with
> > > Internet Explorer, and I'm sure there are some which I haven't
> > > seen. Lou makes a good point when he says none of the screen readers
> > > are perfect, and you have to decide what you can or cannot live
> > > with. He's also right when he says that everyone configures Windows
> > > to suit their own preferences, and that no two configurations are the
> > > same.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > On Monday 10/30/06 23:00 John Miller wrote:
> > >>I've never had that problem with word XP, I just recently upgraded to
> > >>2003,
> > >>haven't seen it so far but I haven't used it all that much yet.
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:41 PM
> > >>Subject: Re: Off Topic - Jaws 7.1 Memory requirements
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > Lou:
> > >> >
> > >> > Come to think of it, I have had the problem you mention here with Jaws
> > >> > 7.0
> > >> > when navigating Word documents.
> > >> >
> > >> > I can't get it to happen consistently under a given set of conditions,
> > >> > but
> > >> > it does happen.
> > >> >
> > >> > Anyone come up with a cure for this?
> > >> >
> > >> > 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> > >> > .
> > >> > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> > From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 9:40 PM
> > >> > Subject: Re: Off Topic - Jaws 7.1 Memory requirements
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi John.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I ran into some problems on two machines where a user would be trying
> > >> >> to
> > >> >> edit a MS Word document and would be just arrowing around the
> document
> > >> > when
> > >> >> the cursor would abruptly move to the top of the document. I was
> able
> > >> >> to
> > >> >> observe this repeatedly on the two machines in question, and they
> were
> > >> > both
> > >> >> running JAWS 7.0. Upgrading the machines to JAWS 7.10 cured the
> > >> >> problem
> > >> > on
> > >> >> both machines, and that is primarily what keeps me from being a big
> > >> >> fan
> > >> >> of
> > >> > 7.0.
> > >> >
> > >
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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