Thanks, Eric. I don't see the issue of HTML code instead of English
appearing in some frames on some internet sites, namely the Washington
Post. Tech support says they are working on the issue. Next build?
On 12/12/2014 6:22 PM, Eric Damery wrote:
All,
We are on target for our first update to JAWS 16 next week. There have been a
significant number of changes that made it into this first update and I wanted
to get the list out to you all now, in order to give you a all a sneak preview
of what is coming. Have a great weekend.
Regards,
Eric Damery
Enhancements in JAWS 16.0.1722 (December 2014)
JAWS
* You can now select text using a braille display in various edit and
document windows without the text being selected having to remain visible on
the screen. For example, if you are using a Focus display, press the LEFT SHIFT
along with a cursor router at the location where you want the selection to
begin, navigate through the document or Web page, and then press the LEFT SHIFT
along with a cursor router again at the location where you want to end the
selection. All text between these two locations is selected regardless whether
all the text is visible on the screen or not.
* Added support for Quicken 2015 using new scripts provided by Intuit.
* This update contains new drivers from Papenmeier which support their new
Braillex Live series of braille displays.
* Pressing the LEFT SHIFT or RIGHT SHIFT button on a Focus braille display
now silences speech similar to pressing CTRL on a QWERTY keyboard.
* Updated the Bookshare Book Search Research It lookup source to work with
the latest changes to the Bookshare.org Web site.
* Addressed a customer reported issue with the Time Search Research It
lookup source not displaying the current time for the specified location.
* If JAWS contracted braille translation is set to both input and output, the
Computer Braille start symbol, dots 4-5-6 followed by dots 3-4--6, is now shown on the
braille display in addition to the "computer braille" message being announced
to indicate when only Computer Braille can be entered into an edit field.
* When using a braille display with JAWS in Structured Mode, resolved an
issue where it was sometimes necessary to pan left to read the information
associated with a control, such as the name of a button or contents of an edit
field, even if it all fit on the display.
* Resolved multiple issues with configuring punctuation levels for
individual languages in a voice profile using the Voice Adjustment dialog box
as well as changing the punctuation level through Settings Center.
* In response to customer feedback, improved JAWS performance with MathML
expressions containing multiple tables.
* Resolved an issue where the wrong colors were being reported when
pressing INSERT+5 in WordPad.
* Pressing INSERT+T in WordPad in Windows 8.1 now speaks the window title
as expected.
* Addressed a customer reported issue with the Theophilos Bible program
where JAWS was not automatically reading the selected item when navigating the
combo box to choose a book.
* When using CTRL+WINDOWS Key+ALT+PAGE UP or CTRL+WINDOWS Key+ALT+PAGE DOWN to permanently
increase or decrease the speech rate, addressed an issue where JAWS was not saying
"faster" or "slower."
* A customer reported that when reading certain abbreviated words
containing periods, such as Mr. and Mrs., JAWS was incorrectly speaking the
period. This has been resolved.
* On the Windows 8 Logon screen, resolved an issue where "password" was
being announced three times when the Password field gained focus.
* Addressed a customer reported issue where JAWS would not read as
expected in the calendar that can be accessed from the System Tray by pressing
SPACEBAR on the clock.
* When installing an application that uses a Nullsoft Install System
installer, an issue was resolved where JAWS would not announce the checked or
unchecked state of items when asked to choose the components to install. This
occurred on 64-bit versions of Windows.
* In Windows 8.1, an issue was addressed where JAWS would not always speak
the correct window title in Windows Explorer while navigating with TAB and
SHIFT+TAB.
* When pressing INSERT+DOWN ARROW to begin a Say All, resolved an issue
where there was sometimes and extra-long pause before JAWS began reading. This
was primarily observed in applications like NotePad, WordPad, and HJPad.
* When using Settings Center to configure the punctuation level for
Vocalizer Expressive and SAPI 5 voices for languages other than English,
resolved an issue where the current voice rate and volume were not retained.
* Addressed a reported issue with the German release of JAWS where Alva
braille displays were not being listed in the Synthesizer and Braille Manager.
* In the Voice Adjustment dialog box, when navigating in the Synthesizer
Language combo box with Eloquence as the selected profile, resolved a reported
issue where German was not being pronounced correctly.
IBM Lotus Notes
* Improved JAWS performance with the IBM Lotus Notes Browser Plugin.
Microsoft Excel
* If an image in an Excel document includes alt text and you press
CTRL+SHIFT+O to open a list of all shapes on the current worksheet, resolved an
issue where the alt text associated with the image was not being read by JAWS.
* JAWS no longer says there are no charts on the worksheet when
INSERT+ALT+C is pressed on a worksheet containing multiple charts. If a
worksheet contains multiple charts, pressing this keystroke now says how many
charts are available and to use the CTRL+SHIFT+O keystroke to select one.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
* Addressed ARIA issues reported by the AT&T Accessibility Technology Office
related to new Chat application scheduled to be released soon to AT&T customers.
* Resolved a customer reported issue with JAWS not properly reading links
that contain ARIA labels.
* Improved JAWS performance when interacting with Web pages that use
Microsoft Silverlight.
* Addressed an issue where the Lists Identify Start and End option in the
Personalized Web Settings group in Quick Settings could not be turned off. This
was also resolved for Firefox and Chrome.
* Updated the keyboard help messages for the INSERT+F8 keystroke which
allows you to list and activate buttons on the Command Bar when enabled from
the Toolbars submenu in the View Menu.
Microsoft Outlook
* JAWS no longer sometimes says "section minus one, page minus one" when
moving into the body of a new message in Outlook 2013.
* Resolved an issue where pressing CTRL+SHIFT+M from an open message would
not start a new message unless the Pass Key Through command (INSERT+3) was
pressed first.
* If an HTML e-mail message contains a bulleted list, resolved an issue
where copying selected list items to the clipboard would copy the entire
message instead.
Microsoft Word
* Resolved an issue where, in certain circumstances, text was not always
being shown on the braille Display in Microsoft Word 2010.
* Addressed an issue with JAWS not reading as expected in various edit
fields in the Property Editor pane.
* Resolved an issue with CTRL+PAGE UP and CTRL+PAGE DOWN not moving to the
previous or next page as expected after you move to a heading using the Heading
List dialog box (INSERT+F6).
* Improved how bookmarks in word are displayed in braille when Bookmark
Detection is enabled in Quick Settings.
* If a document contains revisions with Track Changes enabled, resolved an
issue with braille not tracking properly after moving over and past deleted or
revised text.
* When SHIFT+ENTER is pressed to insert a blank line after a line of text,
an issue was addressed where JAWS would not recognize the blank line until
SHIFT+ENTER was pressed a second time.
* When entering a password to access a protected Word form and typing echo is set to
characters, addressed an issue where JAWS was echoing the characters being typed instead
of saying "*" as expected.
* Resolved an issue where JAWS would not detect fields in a document when
navigating by character.
* When the Next Search Result button is activated during a document
search, resolved an issue where JAWS was not automatically speaking the next
result.
* In Word 2013, if Track Changes are enabled in a document containing
revisions, but the document view is set to No Markup which displays a final
view of the document without showing revisions, addressed a reported issue
where JAWS was not reading correctly.
* Resolved an issue with braille not tracking properly when typing text
into a table in Word 2013.
Mozilla Firefox
* If a menu is attached to a button on a Web page using the aria-owns
attribute, resolved an issue where the menu items were not being shown in the
virtual buffer when the button was activated.
* Addressed an issue with activating tabs on certain Web pages, such as
the settings page on plus.google.com.
* In the Links List dialog box (INSERT+F7), JAWS now indicates
"unavailable" for links that are disabled using ARIA.
* If a Web page element uses ARIA role="dialog" and the dialog has a name,
addressed an issue where JAWS was not automatically reading the name when the dialog
gained focus.
* Addressed an issue where using SHIFT+R to move through the previous
regions on a Web page would sometimes skip a region.
* A customer reported that JAWS responsiveness was slow when attempting to
access the results of a search on a particular Web site. This is now resolved.
* Resolved an issue where HTML source code was appearing in the virtual
buffer on various Web pages.
* If you choose Buttons List from the Virtual HTML Features dialog box
(INSERT+F3), JAWS would sometimes display a message stating that this feature
is only available in a virtual document. This has been resolved.
* Addressed an issue where the currently selected item in certain combo
boxes was not being shown in braille when the combo box first gained focus.
Mozilla Thunderbird
* Improved access to the text in various Thunderbird and Firefox dialog
boxes. When a dialog box opens, JAWS Automatically reads the title and the
current control that has focus. Now, pressing INSERT+B will more reliably read
the text of the dialog box as it does in other applications.
Skype
* When using the ARROW keys to read messages in the chat history, resolved
an issue where longer messages were not being completely read by JAWS.
* Addressed an issue with incoming messages not always being read
automatically as expected in the latest version of Skype.
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