Hello list,
With all the trouble that the latest Jaws release (12.0.1158) has given me and others on these various slists, I have gone back to using Jaws 11 (11.0.1476 I think it is) for now. Aside from the issues here and there that have been fixed in the newer JFW 12 releases, Im satisfied with Jaws 11 over all. There is one thing however that I am experiencing and because its been so long since Ive used JFW 11, I cant recall if this was present in Jaws 11 when it was still the newest build. When I open a Word document, be it by launching MicrosoftWord itself or by composing an e-mail message through my Outlook 2003, I have difficulty with getting around the message field. I can type in the subject field with no problems and can arrow back and forth by character, word etc, but when Im in the message field for example, I cant seem to do anything. Jaws will just read the line of text that Im on, but I am unable to arrow back and forth or up and down. Very similar if I had the virtual cursor turned off on a webpage. The same goes for when Ive got a Word document open. I can type fine and dandy, but once I try using the various say all commands, Its almost completely a no go. The say all command works, but that's it. Ive tried switching the format from plane text to rtf to html and it doesn't make a difference. I've also tried going from the normal view to web etc in the view menu and still nothing. Sometimes, and for no reason, everything will work fine and I can navegate text wit no problems, but the troubles explained above happen more often than not and because of this, I'm finding myself using JFW 11 for pretty much everything, but when I have to type something or compose or respond to an e-mail, I'm switching between the two JFW versions. I can't figure out why sometimes things will work fine and others, it's just not happening. Is anyone else experiencing this and if so, were they able to fix it? I'm using Word 2003 and the Jaws versions mentioned above. Thanks, For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
