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lately, there have been much of activity in lastfew days in the area of screen readers. however, there's nothing big, yet its worth mentioning here. first, a new update of jaws for windows version 10, JAWS 10.0.1142 has just been released. this version is a minor bug fix for last version, and also some new enhancements are made. Enhancements in JAWS 10.0.1142 (March 2009) The following is a list of items addressed between the final JAWS 10.0.1139 release and the JAWS 10.0.1142 posting. • The Yahoo Instant Messenger.jss script file has been updated and included in JAWS 10 to provide support for the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger 9. Make sure to download the latest Yahoo! Messenger for full compatibility with JAWS 10. • The message history in AOL Instant Messenger and the e-mail messages in the Gmail Inbox are now visible to JAWS. Previously, the virtual buffer would appear to be blank if you tried to read message history or Inbox messages. • When navigating through the Gmail Inbox, you can once again select and open an e-mail message by pressing ENTER when focus is on the text in the Subject column. In a previous release, it was necessary to turn off the Virtual Cursor or use the JAWS cursor to open the e-mail message. • Resolved an issue related to certain Web pages with frames, which, when updated, created a situation where JAWS would not read the text present in the updated frame. This problem was reported for both Gmail and the Webinar software used by the Freedom Scientific Training department for the new Webinars , both free and paid, now being offered. • The default JAWS dictionary file (default.jdf) has been updated to include the correct pronunciation of two Russian symbols. • In the JAWS help file, the Using the JAWS Cursor topic now describes the Real Window and the Focus Window restriction options that are available for the JAWS Cursor. Previously, this topic only mentioned the Application Window, Current Window, Unrestricted, and Frame restrictions. please visit http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/JAWS-whats-new.asp#Enhancements for more information and grabbing the copy of latest update. secondly, windows-eyes 7 scripts for winamp are updated. there is lots of updates and a lot of new features who's list is pretty long and hence, i'm not posting it entirely here. Note: These scripts have only been tested using Winamp 5.551. Earlier versions may or may not function. so, if you are a window-eyes7.0 and above user, and uses winamp 5.551, this could be worth updating for you. please visit. https://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/Scripts/Script_Details/?scriptid=1016 last but not the least, the NVDA developers are now trying to work with UI automation which will be used in windows7, and presently, the task is going on to make internet explorer more user friendly with NVDA. if you are a very adventurous user, you can download the latest snatshot (unstable release ) and play with it, however the final stable release will still take some time. here is the information taken from www.nvda-project.org Last September, Mick started completely refactoring our virtual buffer library , a task which ended up becoming almost a complete redesign. This new library is called nvVBufLib. Over the last few months, he has been working on porting the Mozilla Gecko back-end to the new library. We encountered a few major hiccups along the way, which have now thankfully been solved. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, I decided to try my hand at implementing a new Adobe Acrobat/Reader back-end for this new library. In addition, Mick recently started implementing a back-end for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This means that support for Adobe Reader and Internet Explorer is now unified with the same core code used for Mozilla Gecko, which means that features such as fast page rendering, extensive quick navigation, links list, text selection, auto focus mode and braille support are now available with these documents. I'm happy to announce that I've just merged all of this code into the main code base , which means it will also be available in binary snapshots. This is obviously very exciting! However, while the new code appears to be relatively stable, there may still be serious bugs which need to be resolved. Also note that the Internet Explorer support is still not yet complete; form fields may not appear, some controls may not be rendered, there may be problems with frames and the buffer is not updated dynamically, just to list a few of the big issues. Having said this, if you're willing to live on the bleeding edge, please do test and shoot us your feedback! Those of you who aren't willing to deal with problems should probably avoid snapshots for a while until things settle down. Enjoy! Posted: 2009-03-26 02:34 Author: jteh now, before you face digestion problems having heard all this updates in 1 post and start getting confused, i'll put an end to this post right here. follow the appropriate links according to your interest, and happy updating! with warm regards, ruchir. -- As long as forever, I will stay by your side, I'll be your companion, Your friend and your guide!!! www.ruchir89.wordpress.com To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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