Hi Adam and everyone, In this case, MS is wrong: up until Version 1703, you'll get a progress bar when downloading and installing all updates. Starting with Version 1709, you'll get status messages for individual updates. Also, JAWS needs to support UIA progress bars and certain events coming from universal apps such as Settings app in order to tell you what's going on. Unfortunately, from time to time, Windows ships with broken UIA implementations, including a case where progress bar values will change along with download/install status text, which is annoying (fixed in 1709 but it also introduced a bug of its own). Speaking of NVDA, I am the one who brought you update status message announcements (ask me offlist if interested). Cheers, Joseph
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fernando Gregoire Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 7:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] update progress with win10? Microsoft Disability Answer Desk is partially correct. The stable (released to the general public) versions of Windows 10 from which the update to version 1709 is downloaded show update progress, but only a general one and not for each update separately, therefore if there are more than one update available you'll be unable to check individually the progress of version 1709. Insider builds (those targetted to techies who want to test Windows beta versions) show progress for each update separately inside the list item of each update; you can see this info with JAWS by using the Touch Cursor with Advanced Object Navigation enabled. In any case, unlike NVDA and Windows Narrator, JAWS is currently unable to report the progress automatically as it does in traditional (remember that Settings is actually an Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app), so if using JAWS you need to check the progress manually, even when Progress Bar Announcement in JAWS is turned on. Another alternative is to use the Media Creation Tool to download an ISO file for the language and architecture you want and then mount and install the ISO manually. Since the Media Creation Tool is a desktop app, JAWS will read the download progress correctly. In the installation program the percentage is said in text instead of a progress bar; no screen reader can therefore report the change, but you can press INSERT+B or use JAWS/Invisible Cursor even if you don't have JAWS 2018. Hope it helps! 2017-10-20 5:58 GMT-03:00 Adam Morris <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > running jaws2018. > > If I go to settings and then update and security. > > then check for updates I'm told there is one update which is 1709. > > I gather there is no way to tell whether the update is downloading or not? > > Spoke to Microsoft accessibility who said there is no way to tell if > the update is being downloaded. > > They said the only way to tell is when the machine prompts you to restart. > > Wondering if this is correct or if I haven't started the download yet. > > > > -- > > Adam Morris > Jaws certified 2016 > Phone: > +61 2 6654 7777 > Email, iMessage & FaceTime > [email protected] > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
