Fixes since
the JAWS 5.00.812 February update.
Since posting the
5.00.812 February Update, it was discovered that while installation with
other DCM products was working as designed, there were other interoperability
issues that in some cases caused system instability if JAWS 5.00.812 was
installed and run on a computer with other Vendors products. As a result
of Dolphin support informing us, we have made the minor adjustments and
tested this latest March update of JAWS and the new MAGic 9.0 update with
the other DCM products installed with no such instability issues.
Our testing did uncover
one problem that still remains (and did so in the 5.0 release last October
as well). If JAWS and SuperNova are both installed on a W2K or Windows
XP machine, use of the JAWS cursor may cause text to no longer properly
read. This does not require SuperNova be running, just installed. We will
be working closely with Dolphin during the next two months to resolve
this issue as soon as possible.
As always, we suggest
that you use caution when installing multiple accessibility products from
various manufacturers on the same system. DCM or not, you should always
consult with those manufacturers prior to installing to determine what
testing may have been done.
While resolving the
incompatibility issues with the other products, we continued to make fixes
in JAWS and have included these fixes as part of this free update for
all JAWS 5.0 customers.
Other fixes include:
- We resolved some
long standing issues regarding disappearing text, especially in Microsoft
Word 2000, XP, and 2003. Anyone using MS Word should notice significant
improvements in this area.
- Fixed a Braille
issue of the display not updating to include the cursor when typing
past the end of the display with the Configuration Manager setting of
Positioning Mode set to Fixed Positioning.
- Fixed a reported
crash on http://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html
when navigating by paragraph.
- Fixed a problem
found in Triple Talk and other synthesizers that may use a 0 as a rate
or pitch. This fix should allow users to now hear the pitch change for
capital letter indications. There is still an issue for Triple Talk
PCI if its global pitch is set to 0. Setting it to 1 will resolve that
problem.
- Fixed a minor problem
reported when JAWS with Braille and MAGic were run together. The error
was an unknown function call when shutting down MAGic.
- Fixed a problem
when doing a Spell Line (SayLine command pressed twice quickly) on a
line that includes punctuation, such as an email address or web address.
Spelling Speech Rate would speed up once you encountered the punctuation
on the line. This is now working as expected.
- In Adobe Reader,
K and SHIFT+K now properly navigate to any JAWS PlaceMarkers you may
have created for your PDF document.
- Added updated Scripts
for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.5.
- Resolved issue
on International Operating Systems where trying to set up application
specific individual voice settings was failing.
- Fixed menu reading/navigating
problems reported in Java Applications.
- Fixed the Play/Pause
command for WinAmp.
- Fixed a reported
issue in MS Word where the Say Line command would fail if the file name
included the word "Customize".
- Fixed reported
issues of text failing to read correctly with the JAWS cursor on Web
Pages that contain Flash.
- Thanks to help
from our creative and talented Private Beta Testers, we fixed a problem
found in the scripts causing problems in Microsoft Power Point Presentations.
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