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www.theworldofyemora.wordpress.com Twitter @GreenNovelist -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Damery Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS 15, Public Beta 3 was released today at 10 AM If you restarted your JAWS 15 today, after 10 AM Eastern, you should have alerted to another update of JAWS 15 Public Beta. All is going well and we are on track for a successful release at the end of the month. For all of you who have installed the beta builds this year, I wanted to thank you for your time and effort. The reports filed have been great this year and I'm confident that we are ready for a successful DVD distribution to thousands of users around the world in November. Please feel free to continue submitting the beta forms if you find issues. We are already working on the first auto update to JAWS 15 so anything we don't get in the final release this month, will be rolling into the updates. Below is the list of changes between Beta 2 and Beta 3. Regards, Eric Eric Damery Vice President Software Product Management Freedom Scientific 11800 31st Court North St. Petersburg, FL 33716 727-299-6110 Enhancements in JAWS 15.0.4106 (October 2013) The following is a list of improvements made between this release and the JAWS 15.0.3103 posting. JAWS * With the new ability in JAWS 15 to switch between braille displays without having to restart JAWS, an issue connecting and disconnecting the BrailleNote Apex over USB for use with JAWS was discovered. Humanware has resolved this issue in a new driver which is installed with this latest JAWS update. In addition, the driver for the Brailliant display was updated with UTF8 support to address reports from Russian users attempting to enter text from the display. * A new Handy Tech driver is now included in JAWS which adds support for their newest line of braille displays. * You can now perform a triple tap with one finger in the Speech Settings gesture mode to toggle the Touch Cursor on or off. Just like you can use the mouse without turning on the JAWS Cursor, you can perform gestures without turning on the Touch Cursor. Enabling the Touch Cursor allows you to use the keyboard and braille display to navigate objects as well as display a rectangle around the current Touch Cursor location. * The color of the highlight rectangle which is used to visually show the location of the Touch Cursor is now red to help make it easier to see. * Added information to the Gesture List (Four-Finger Double Tap) to announce the currently active gesture mode and that you can perform a Two-Finger Rotate to switch modes. * When Touch Cursor navigation is set to groups and you move to a group that is not on the screen, resolved an issue where the highlight rectangle was not being displayed around the group as it gained focus. * More issues submitted using the Error Reporting feature have been resolved. Microsoft Excel * Resolved a customer reported issue where JAWS was displaying an error when attempting to open Quick Settings in a worksheet containing an ampersand symbol in the sheet name. Microsoft Internet Explorer * Addressed a reported issue with table navigation commands not working as expected in certain types of grids. * Addressed an issue in both Internet Explorer and Firefox where JAWS was not always indicating the beginning or end of an ARIA region. * Improved JAWS detection of embedded objects on Web pages. Microsoft Office * Addressed issues where hot keys for various ribbon controls were not being displayed in braille. Microsoft Outlook * Addressed a reported issue with JAWS sometimes not reading as expected in the attachments list if it contained more than two attachments. Microsoft Word * When virtual ribbons are enabled, addressed an issue where pressing ENTER on a split button was not displaying the split button options as expected. * If you set another Speech and Sounds scheme as the default in Word instead of Word Classic, addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS would switch back to the Word Classic scheme instead of the new default scheme if focus was moved away then back to the application. * When performing a Find, resolved an issue where pressing ENTER on the Next Result button in the Navigation pane was not always moving to the next occurrence unless INSERT+3 was pressed first to activate the pass key through feature. Skype * Contracted braille can now be used to enter and edit Skype chat messages. 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/
