Hi.
My experience with jaws 17 have been such that I'm glad this is still a
public beta only. Try using 17 with a touch screen on a tablet computer,
my atom 1.8ghz quad core asus t100 is sluggish in quite a few places not
the least of which is skype for desktop. Try moving up and down your
contacts, if you're lucky JAWS will only be sluggish and keep talking
and focusing new items for several seconds after you take the finger off
the screen, but I've had plenty of jaws crash and restart, or jaws
shutdowns happen to me, the shutdowns are nasty because I have to
connect the keyboard dock long enough to use buttons to start jaws again.
While my t100 isn't exactly a speed demon, it does actually run pretty
good, and it did ok with jaws 16. I think this ought to be fixable given
that fact. I don't know if it has anything to do with extra code in use
to play the tick sounds when touching no man's land or what.
With the touch keyboard, if you put it in numbers mode and slide a
finger over to the number pad, you get extreme sluggishness or crash and
hopefully restarts of jaws. I duplicated this numerous times with my
asus t100 running windows 10 (see specs above) and my 3ghz core i7
hozwell lenovo yoga 2 pro with 8gb ram running windows 8.1.
Also, the touch keyboard is pretty dangerous on the t100 while trying to
type someone a skype chat, because if you accidentally touch above the
keyboard jaws will at least freeze temporarily, if not just crash and
again HOPEFULLY restart. I say hopefully there because it doesn't always
start up again, it just closes and you have to connect a keyboard or go
back into laptop mode long enough to press the buttons you need to start
jaws again.
The touch keyboard is a lot better, but the touch screen support right
now feels really gimmicky, 16 didn't have as many touch screen usability
features but it is far more responsive and stable.
My last issue is with smart navigation. If you have a page that uses a
list of links but they're all laid out horizontally on screen even
though they are indeed an html list, jaws insists on putting them in a
vertical layout. You can reproduce this on freedomscientific.com near
the top of the page with the navigation menu that contains items like
home, products, services, downloads, support, dealer locator and shop.
According to the jaws cursor (yes I really mean the jaws cursor), this
is a horizontal list, a bar of links that span the top of the website,
kind of looks like a menu bar. With the virtual pc cursor while you've
got smart navigation turned on, this appears to be a vertical list.
I have reported all of these concerns to fs via the 17 beta report form,
but as that form is crazily short on the edit boxes limiting the input
to too few characters to say all that I have to say, I wondered if there
was a chance I'd get Erick's or someone's attention on here, especially
if anyone else wants to confirm my findings, perhaps by duplicating my
problem reports via the beta report form at least.
I think the touch screen issues are likely fixable as jaws 16 is much
better. Oh also, is anyone else finding web browsing to be more sluggish
in internet explorer 11? Smart navigation is of course on, for elements
and tables.
Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates
Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community
http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.2.0 portable
On 9/18/2015 7:38 PM, Bob Edenhofer wrote:
I’m really enjoying the beta version of jaws 17 myself!
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