Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Lol, big gun. At least freedom scientific has updates. NVAccess just seems to put updates out every year or so, by that time jaws has put out about 12 updates.
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You are a good one to talk about blind people wanting everything for free. Look at your own choice. Have you donated anything to NV Access to support the development of NVDA?Monthly updates? What's wrong with that?
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
An $150 per upgrade? Then, why is FS charging $550 to go from 15 to 2018. If you notice, that is 4 upgrades. System is best compared to what web aloud used to be if anyone remembers what that product is. System access, as
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
There no free upgrades unless you bought a SMA back when you bought version 13, and that would only get you up to version 15.If you didn't, not only will you have to pay $150 for the upgrade to 2018, but you'll have to pay
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they do? I was afraid to upgrade because I didn't think any version above 13 would work.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=337350#p337350
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agreed with orcobut back to jaws again. anyone knows if it's possible to get more than 2 upgrades on the sma? as i said earlyer i'm really anoyed by the fact that jaws can't sync all it's releases in difrent languages to
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I just decided to look up whether registry cleaners are a wise thing or not, though I already am reluctant to use them based on having screwed my system up a couple of times by just deleting everything they flag up.
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Hmmm, I have used C cleaner with both supernova and Jaws, both of which it was fine with which is why I assume interface is fairly standard.As I said previously I wonder if it is something in the way your Jaws is set
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Maybe it's friendly to NVDA but not very friendly to JAWS. I'm not switching screen readers just so I can run one program that I've already pretty much replaced with alternatives.Either Piriform makes CCleaner accessible
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Maybe it's friendly to NVDA but not very friendly to JAWS. I'm not switching screen readers just so I can run one program that I've already pretty much replaced with alternatives.Either Piriform makes CCleaner accessible
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Well, I never had problem with using it.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
i personally don't really like using those kind of programs like c cleaner. they usually don't solve problems and they're anoying to navigate
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Hmmm. Maybe I'll try it again, I admit it's been at least a year since I last tried it.After uninstalling the last attempt, I sent Piriform an email detailing many of CCleaner's many accessibility issues at the time, but
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Hmmm odd there Orco, I just checked C cleaner options and they're either lists of properties you can disable or enable with the context menu such as cookies and exceptions, or options that have check boxes, eg, if I go to
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If you decide to try CCleaner, beware!First off, CCleaner isn't exactly what I'd call screen reader friendly, while object navigation will help you get farther than you normally would without it, you'll run across options
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Hi. In the name of darkness I would seriously suggest to everyone fighting with start menu and other stuff, to install classic shell. As I jumped right from Xp to 10, it was definitely one of the first things to do to my
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
first, if you like either windows 10, or JAWS, or both, I beg, don't bother reading further. last year, I started my windows experience for the first ever time. I happened to start with an old HP, with windows 10, and
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I haven't tried installing stfc on a windows 10 machine so I can't say what is going on, but I do remember it has an uninstaller. If worst comes to worst though it is that sort of case where I would use C cleaner, either
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Try going through the start menu and navigating to the Star Trek Final Conflict folder and see if there's a shortcut to the uninstall there instead of going through the control panel.
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This is slightly off topic, but speaking of annoying issues with windows and unable to delete something, here's the situation.I'm running windows 10 and Jaws 18, just for a little background. A while back, I installed Star
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@DarkAlthough you can find it on some shareware index sites like softpedia or softtonic, it looks like Cedrick Collins' Unlocker is dead. I got a message today when I ran it that there was a new version, but when I tried
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
@DarkAlthough you can find it on some shareware index sites like softpedia or softtonic, it looks like Cedrick Collins' Unlocker is dead. I got a message today when I ran it that there was a new version, but when I tried
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
there's a thing that really anoys me about jaws and that is when a english version of jaws is out ti takes months until other languages gets that version too. me personally don't like to wait for the swedish version to
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Unlocker is useful software for getting rid of things that can't be deleted. It either tells you what's using the file if that's the problem, or will offer to delete it on restart. It's worked for me a few times.
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Unlocker can be useful software for getting rid of things that can't be deleted. It either tells you what's using the file if that's the problem, or will offer to delete it on restart. It's worked for me a few times.
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Thanks Socheat that is great to know. It has helped already since I have a one tb external drive (mostly used to pass stuff between my lady and I), that had an undeletable folder on it caused by an error while copying
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
The slowness in Windows or JAWS?
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I hear that the sloness is caused by cracking the software.
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@Dark, one thing that I forgot to mentioned to you is, after you press windows key plus V, you have to press either space bar or the enter key to get to that notification. If you just press windows key plus V, NVDA just
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Nope, it happens with Vocalizer and Win10 mobile too.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
@Dark, don't know if you know this one already, if you want to follow up with whichever notifications on Windows 10, when you inserted something like CDS, or a USB drive, when you hear the notification chime plays, you can
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I'm only still using my pc because of school and gaming. I can't play SPYW or swamp on the mac so use my pc for those. I also haven't found a fully accessible word processer that will export to word as I still use windows
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About Chrome, when I was using it, I never have problem with JAWS. But with NVDA, sometimes NVDA doesn't read the form fields correctly. That's what I found, anyway.
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I agree with you there, at some point Microsoft needs to get off their butts and release a roll up patch that has all those hundreds of updates since SP1 in one single patch, or call it SP2. In the past they'd have never
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I don't know what I'm talking about with chrome. All the features may now be accessible with jaws, but one little thing must have irritated me into going back to IE. It might have been something as simple as an element on
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Oddly enough I personally prefer Windows 10 to 7, for all I think Edge is a major mistake and wish Microsoft would just get their act together and update ie properly. of course I have heavily customised Windows 10's
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My final thoughts on what a turd Windows 10 and Edge are. No matter how much you polish it, it's still a turd, albeit a shiny one, but then so is diarrhea and nobody wants that!If I am forced to give up Windows 7 and
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Normally I'd have no problem switching from Internet Explorer to Edge because I know how vulnerable Internet Explorer has always been and will just get worse when Support for Windows 7 & 8 ends in 2020.But it seems that no
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I think it'll be the fact that internet explorer is no longer being developed that will eventually cause me to switch to win 10. Think IE will become unusable long before the win 7 OS. That's what happened with XP anyway.
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I think it'll be the fact that internet explorer is no longer being developed that will eventually cause me to switch to win 10. Think IE will become unusable long before the win 7 OS. That's what happened with XP anyway.
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I think it'll be the fact that internet explorer is no longer being developed that will eventually cause me to switch to win 10. Think IE will become unusable long before the win 7 OS. That's what happened with XP anyway.
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When I was a Windows user, the browser that I most used were Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. They're both work well for my daily tasks on the Internet. I rarely use Firefox, because I think Firefox is quite slow in my
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The biggest problem with JAWS is that it always has some compatibility issues with new versions of software, and FS needs ages to fix that. That was ten years ago when Vista came out, that is happening again now with
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I'm running Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Home Premium. The only thing I can't get with Windows 7 is Edge and from everything I've heard, that's probably a good thing.
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I have internet explorer 11 on win 7. It's XP that won't let you go above IE8. Re respecting or resenting a screen reader: I was thinking more along the lines of people resenting FS than NVAccess. FS has certainly pissed
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The only reason I use chrome is because my internet explorer is version 8 and I can't access most sites, including the audiogames forum with it. However chrome doesn't work with jaws 12, so I have NVDA for it. I can't get
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Don't get me wrong, I don't hate or resent NVDA, far from it, for what it is, a free and open source screen reader, I think it's an amazing product. But when I compare it to JAWS, JAWS wins, hands down. And while I agree
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate or resent NVDA, far from it, for what it is, a free and open source screen reader, I think it's an amazing product. But when I compare it to JAWS, JAWS wins, hands down. And while I agree
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I think the trouble with jaws is that because they have to release a new version every year to maintain their revenue stream, they also have to have something to justify it, so changes are being released into the public
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Hello, one thing I'm noticing after the yesterday's update of Firefox; with JAWS 18 at least, Firefox works considerably more slowly than it used to work in the previous versions. My Firefox version is 56.0.2.
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Agree with orco. Also, trying to compare NVDA to jaws 13 is like comparing something to narrator... Jaws 13 is a complete and utter disaster.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=335644#p335644
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I'm just the opposite, I've had no problems with JAWS, but every time I try to use NVDA I find things it can't or won't do that JAWS does without blinking. That is why I only use NVDA for those games that don't play well
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i have to agree that jaws2018 is not really worth to pay for. you don't get anything new that could'nt have been included in a update. that in my opinion is ridicolous that they even call it an upgrade.the passed upgrades
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I'm not sure about Jaws, but I can say nvda and word 2016 work fine together, I use them all the time. I did try liber office, but the spellcheck and other options in writer just weren't up to what I needed. Nvda seems to
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hi,Also, I am a student, and office is the program that I use the most. I have not had issues with nvda, in fact, nvda works beautifully with the 365 version of office.
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As a home user Office support isn't all that important. I wouldn't even have Office, if it wasn't for Microsoft's Home Use program that was available through my last employer. Through it I was able to get Office 2010
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I don't understand why people think that NVDA lacks support for MS Office. NVAccess during last years worked mostly on Office support, and it's PowerPoint support in my opinion is even better than JFW's support. If NVDA is
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
The price of JAWS is much too high, considering that NVDA and Narrator are catching up to it like emerging horses on a track. Seriously though, the price of the program, and worse, upgrading it, is the biggest flaw of
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I wouldn't have done the same, due to NVDA's lack of office support, and the fact that I am in school and use microsoft word with jaws.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=335559#p335559
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I'm not saying JAWS, or it's major version upgrades, should be free, but honestly, charging people for an upgrade they chose to skip, and will never use because it's now superceeded by a newer version is just plain
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yeah, the fact you need to pay for upgrades is incredibly stupid
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In my case, I'm not suggesting Jaws should be free, but I once paid £650 just to upgrade and add a two year SMA because a few little things didn't work. That is an outrageous amount of money for an upgrade that added very
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In my case, I'm not suggesting Jaws should be free, but I once paid £650 just to upgrade and add a two year SMA because a few little things didn't work. That is an outrageous amount of money for an upgrade that added very
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As many people said in the NVDA vs jaws argumemt we had on here a while back, jaws is really only that price because of all the working and schooling features it has behind the scenes like scripting and office support for
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If I ever fell far behind enough that bringing myself current would cost more than a new license, then I'd just buy the new license and ditch the old one.Considering all the support they get from governments and
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I do not know how they would handle me telling them I am on a fixed income, but I have not thought about telling them that. I never thought it would be an option in the first place. I will have to get my ducks in a row and
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I only use JAWS for Microsoft Word, as both NVDA and Narrator are both quite sluggish. I've started using LibreOffice though, so we'll see where that goes.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
tell them jaws is only worth $120 or so. Or you could shame them into giving you a much lower price by saying you'll just donate your $1000 to NVDA project. Maybe 20 years ago jaws was worth $1000 but not anymore.
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if you call and say you want to buy jaws for people on fixed incomes and social security, you can buy jaws plus 2 smas updates for $240 or jaws with 0 smas for $120. Hal night from VFO told me about the $120 full jaws
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The latest version of jaws works with win 7. The problems that started happening around v16 seemed to go away with v18, and jaws became usable again. .
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
The latest version of jaws works with win 7. The problems that started happening around v16 seemed to go away with v18, and jaws became usable again. . Though one glitchy little thing I'm noticing with jaws 2018 at the
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
The latest version of jaws works with win 7. The problems that started happening around v16 seemed to go away with v18, and jaws became usable again. .
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=335414#p335414
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That is insane! It's not enough that the user purchases the product for the absurd price of $1200. If you don't keep up with your Freedom Scientific taxes for the privilege to continue to access your computer, you must pay
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Yes, I am still using jaws 12. I probably could upgrade, but since i'm planning on ditching my pc in the future I don't see the point. I don't even think any version of jaws works on win7 higher than like jaws 13 but
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LOL. I feel sorry for those who are so far behind that the upgrade cost more than a new version of JAWS would cost. Picture over $1100 to bring it current. LOL. I hope they are not that stupid to charge that much. If they
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No need to be sorry you don't know about the Eloquence for Windows. If nobody knows, I'll see if I can get an answer out of Code Factory.What Freedom Scientific does which I thihnk is totally insane and unfair is make you
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I do not know if your synth settings will remain after uninstalling. Sorry for not knowing. For those who are wondering, I am a Firefox user myself. Yes, some of the dialogs are crazy. They are sort of like web pages.
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Sorry for the double post but I should have asked this in my last post and forgot.The only thing on my computer that I can think of that might use Themedia is Code Factory's Eloquence for Windows.To test my theory I'd need
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I don't use Firefox so that won't be a problem for me, but their new installer does have problems. Every time I try to launch it I get this error message:---Themida---Cannot
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The fundamental way jaws works hasn't changed in the 10 years I've been using it, so anyone who can use version 10 or whatever should have no problem using 2018. As for not purchasing the software maintanence agreement to
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As for the original question about Firefox, I don't really know. I haven't used it in a while, I now use Seamonkey. Last time I tried Waterfox, nothing read. But if it's good or is compatable with NVDA, I'll give it
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I stopped actively using jaws 2-3 years ago. I still have a demo lying around if I need it though, and there are times when I do.In regards to OCR, what does Jaws use? Does the Win10 one work better? IN the brief times
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I don't know about anyone else, but JAWS 17 started lagging the holy heck out of my machine after it was running for a while. It even made the fan start going nuts.
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The only useful thing I can see about jaws 2018 is the ability to OCR documents directly. Looks like the crappy OpenBook is out of a job, fingers crossed. It used to be that there was always something interesting worth
Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
The only useful thing I can see about jaws 2018 is the ability to OCR documents directly. Looks like the crappy OpenBook is out of a job, fingers crossed. It used to be that there was always something interesting worth
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Jaws 16 and microsoft edge don't work at all, at least as far as i'm aware.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
I personally use Microsoft edge and NVDA. I think that Jaws has all reddy got support for Microsoft edge. It's not as good as internet explorer or google chrome but it's good enough.ps: one mager problem for what ever
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internet explorer works better with jaws than firefox or chrome. Chrome doesn't work at all with jaws 12, and for some reason I still have that.
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Re: Jaws2018 is out and possible upcoming firefox problem with jaws
TheGreatCarver wrote:cw wrote:I am just letting those who do not know already that JAWS 2018 is out and that FS is saying that they are going to have a problem with a November 14 release of Firefox. I can follow their
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It's good to know that it is not just JAWS. I guess I will have to check out both water fox and chrome. Does anyone know how well chrome works with JAWS v15? I myself will work on getting a firefox fix into place for my
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cw wrote:I am just letting those who do not know already that JAWS 2018 is out and that FS is saying that they are going to have a problem with a November 14 release of Firefox. I can follow their suggestion of switching
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Lol. I like how they say upgrades or SMAs can be purchased over the internet for single user licenses in the US, but when I enter my serial number it says to contact them to upgrade it. Okay then!
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