Sending this again, since I did not see it show up the first time. Regards, Eric
________________________________ From: Eric Damery Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:01 PM To: 'jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com' Cc: JAWSIntlBeta Subject: JAWSBeta JAWS 9.0.356 Private Beta is available! Hello Private Beta Testers, JAWS Private Beta Build 9.0.356 is ready for testing. This one includes quite a bit of change since the 353 build because we have been fixing items that were held out of the public beta builds as we attempted to stabilize it as best we could. The next update we do for the public will be in about 10 days or so I hope. Your attention to this list of fixes is greatly appreciated. The Known issues is empty today. Rosemary and Stephen are both off sipping Margaritas somewhere so we are not as professional in the write up as we'd like to be. Special note: The Red Sox are going for game two tonight at 8:30 ET and the Yankees will be going for their second loss on Saturday! Regards, Eric JAWS Private Beta Build 9.0.356 is ready for testing. JAWS 9.0 Update An update is provided for your convenience as well as to continue with some level of testing of the update process during the beta cycle. Not all builds provided during the beta cycle will have the update option. As the product progresses, some builds will be new BASE BUILDS upon which subsequent updates can be installed. The Automatic Update will update to JAWS 9.0.356 from the following prior builds: * 9.0.353 Base Build or Update. * 9.0.348 Base Build. Attempts to update to 9.0.356 from any build other than what is listed will fail by design. If in doubt or you have trouble, simply use the full install instead. Updates are not yet available for Windows Vista, and are not available for Windows 2000; you need to download and install the full version. * Update Patch: 1. Please enter 90909 into the special code dialog in the JAWS about box dialog. Go to the Help Menu, About. TAB to the special access code button and press ENTER. Type or paste 90909 into the edit field. 2. Select check for updates on the JAWS UI help menu. You will find today's 9.0.356 in the list box. 3. TAB to your choice and proceed with installation. * Update Tip: How do you check to see if a listed update will update my installed version of JAWS? If you navigate the list of updates and highlight one of the listed updates you can TAB to the detail button and press spacebar to get a list of the versions of JAWS which can be updated by that particular update. * If the Update fails: Either Repair or install the full build, if available: Check out the FAQ: How do I perform Installation Maintenance procedures like Repair and Modify? <http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/BulletinView.cfm?QC=1057> NOTES * JAWS 9.0 beta will expire December 1, 2007. * For those who are testing the Outlook Calendar work: to test the calendar, you need to disable the Task List option in View, To Do, menu. ALT+V to drop the View menu, then select the To Do Bar sub menu, then uncheck the Task List option. * MAGic and JAWS private beta testers: We are working on testing a combination here in-house, and on getting you a new MAGic 11 Public beta candidate, that will function with the JAWS public beta. While you are free to install both JAWS 9.0 beta and MAGic 11 private beta together, we still don't recommend attempting to run them together * JAWS 9.0 will be a paid upgrade, requiring authorization for JAWS 9.0. The flag is not set yet; 8.0 authorization will enable you to run JAWS 9.0 beta. * Please review the Known Problems section and refrain from posting reports on those defects listed. * Please save these announcements during the cycle for reference or to help answer questions; each list of new features and fixes is unique to each build you'll receive. * This is a beta product; it is prerelease quality. It is recommended that you back up your system prior to installing 9.0. * If you install JAWS 9.0 on a system with JAWS 8.0, JAWS 8.0 will use the 9.0 shared components. * The Private Beta Handbook <ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/PrivateBetaHandbook.htm> is available as a separate web page for reference. NEW FEATURES and CHANGES * 33586 Change in output message when No window is active. * 33880 We have now added a link to the Adjust JAWS Options dialog JAWSKey+v to the JAWSKey+F2 Run JAWS Manager to make it easier for new users to find the options. * 34126 Extra Help Indication option is now called F1 formfield help indication as in prior versions of JAWS. (Brian Hartgen) . * 34127 F1 automatic help text reading now speaking after the status bar help text for Word Forms (Brian Hartgen). * 34179 Powerpoint 2007 now improved in areas other than edit. (Kelly Ford) . * 34190 SayAll mode is now persistent with Microsoft Outlook 2007. * 34171 Insert+F1 and Hotkey Help for Outlook 2007 Calendar support updated. KNOWN PROBLEMS FIXES 24352 None : In user account types dialog, Jaws reports the number of radio buttons incorrectly. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press window logo key to open the start menu. 2. Go to the settings/ control panel. 3. Press enter on User account. 4. Press tab key followed by down arrow key to select the create an account link. 5. Press enter to activate the link. 6. Type a name for new account and press enter on next button. 7. On the next screen, Jaws says "Computer administrator radio button checked, zero items." 24830 JAWS : In JAWS help, JAWS doesn't read dialog when the search item is not found. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press Insert+J to activate the JAWS UI window. 2. Press F1 to open the JAWS help. 3. Select a topic from the contents page. 4. Press F6 to go to the right pane. 5. Press CTRL+F to bring JAWS find dialog. 6. Type the "ABCD" in edit box and press enter. 7. 'Screen Find result Dialog' appears stating "Search string NOT found". Observation: JAWS doesn't read dialog by itself., JAWS reads only the OK button. 27952 Calculator : On enabling or disabling hyperbolic or inverse function after clearing or entering data, the status of the function is announced incorrectly Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Windows Calculator 2. Enable Scientific Calculator by selecting Scientific from the View menu. 3. Now type any numerical data. 4. After entering data, press h to enable hyperbolic function. JAWS says "hyp off" when checkbox for the hyperbolic function is checked. 5. Press escape to clear the data and press i to enable inverse function. JAWS says "INV off" when checkbox for the inverse function is checked. 6. Now again make changes to the entered data or press escape. Press 'i' or 'h'. Save behavior mentioned above is observed. 28298 Multiple Apps : On choosing any topic in the search results list view in Search tab of Help, JAWS reads the text that is highlighted on the document pane Steps to Reproduce: 1. From JAWS UI, open "JAWS Help topics" from the Help Menu. 2. In the JAWS Help that opens, open the "Search" tab by pressing Ctrl+Tab. 3. In the search page, type any word in the edit field to search for and press Enter. For example type "JAWS" and press Enter. 4. Tab to the search results list view. Press enter on any topic in the list view to open the topic in the document pane. 29490 Adobe Acrobat Pro : On navigating in the combo box in the Search dialog, item name isn't announced. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch the Adobe Acrobat Professional 8. 2. Press CTRL+Shift+F to bring up the 'Search' dialog. 3. Tab to combo box containing the directory list. 4. Navigate using the Up/Down arrow keys in the combo box. 29917 Internet Explorer : MSAA info seems to stop getting reported in IE7 combo boxes. (Patrick Turnage) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch IE7, and open the following web site: http://www3.dot.state.fl.us/mileage/ 2. Press the Quick Navigation key "C" to position the cursor on the first combo box on the page. 3. Press ENTER to turn on Forms Mode. 4. Press ALT+DOWN ARROW (NumPad 2) to open the List box. 5. Press the END key to position the cursor on the last item in the combo box, which is Winter Haven. 6. Turn the Number Row on by pressing INS+SPACEBAR. 7. Press F10 and then F9 to cycle through and hear the MSAA information. 8. After going through all of the MSAA items, press INS+SPACEBAR to turn the Home Row off. The correct MSAA information was spoken. 9. Press the UP ARROW key to arrow up the list of items in the combo box, and continue to press the UP ARROW key until JAWS quits speaking the items in the combo box. 10. When JAWS stops speaking the items in the combo box, press INS+SPACEBAR to turn the Number Row on. 11. Press F10 and F9 to cycle through and hear the MSAA information for the item that the cursor is actually positioned on in the combo box. 31344 Multiple Apps : JAWS gets into a state where JAWS does not speak the copying CTRL+c or cutting CTRL+x message. Paste CTRL+v speaks the message. (Brett Lewis) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run internet explorer, go to www.freedomscientific.com as a test. 2. Select some text. Make sure verbosity is on beginner or intermediate. 3. Press control C, Jaws says copied selection to clipboard at beginner mode. Everything works fine. 4. Launch windows media player 11. 5. Select text again. Press control c or control X. Nothing is announced. 6. Go into notepad, paste your text. Control V does say pasted. 7. exit windows media player. Select text again, press control C or control X, still no announcement of copied selection. 8. Shut down JAWS and restart. Select text again. Control C will now announce the selection copy. 31752 JAWS : If JAWS is set to run for the current user and at logon and you log off, you get a blue screen Steps to Reproduce: 1. Be sure that JAWS is set to run at logon and be sure that it will also run for the current user always. You can reboot to be sure both are working. 2. From the desktop, press ALT+F4 and choose Log Off. Your computer will blue screen at this point. 32104 Outlook 2007 : Messages do not read automatically in Outlook 2007 when moving backwards and forwards through items in the list ( Brian Hartgen) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007. 2. Press INS+V to invoke the JAWS verbosity dialog. 3. Toggle the option to read messages automatically to on. 4. Open a plain text message and JAWS will begin a SayAll. 5. Press CTRL+PERIOD to move forward one message. JAWS announces details about the message but it does not commence a SayAll. 6. Press CTRL+COMMA to move backwards one message and again the SayAll does not occur. 7. Bring up AdjustJAWSOptions again and turn on header reading for messages. 8. Repeat steps 4 and 5 again. This time both headers and SayAll should work. 32497 Multiple Apps : JAWS does not read the items in the list of Index tab of JAWS and MAGic Help when navigating using UP/DOWN ARROW keys. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bring JAWS UI into focus by pressing INSERT+J. 2. Select JAWS Help Topics from the Help Menu to open the JAWS 8.0 Help. 3. Press CTRL+TAB to open the Index tab of the JAWS 8.0 Help. 4. Tab to go to the Index list box and use UP/DOWN ARROW keys to navigate items in the list. 33043 JAWS : With focus on any button of the startup wizard braille is showing all controls in dialog (Hans Anton Ålien) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set the braille to structured. 2. Launch the startup wizard. 3. Tab to Next, Back, or Cancel button in the startup wizard and note what the braille display shows: The braille display will show the static text for every control on the dialog. We should only be showing the title of the dialog and the default control. 33303 Word : No messages are announced when you move to or from a table of contents with ALT+LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document with a table of contents or use the attached file. 2. Move to the table of contents, arrow to one of the links and activate any of them. 3. Press ALT+LEFT ARROW to go back to the table of contents. Results: You will be at the table of contents but nothing is announced. 4. Press ALT+RIGHT ARROW to go forward from the table of contents. Results: You will return to the previous position, but nothing is announced by JAWS. 33650 Notepad : In Notepad, on navigating in Format menu>Font dialog>Edit combo boxes, highlighted item is announced multiple times. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Notepad. 2. Press ALT+O then F to open the "Font" dialog. Focus would be in "Font:" edit combo. 3.Navigate using the UP/DOWN arrow keys. First of all, highlighted item name would be announced twice, followed by font style is announced, and then again highlighted item name would be announced. 4. Tab to Style edit combo and navigate in by using the UP/DOWN arrows. Here, item name would be announced thrice. 5. Tab to Font size combo and navigate in the combo box. Same behavior would be observed. 33661 Windows Mobile Center : List of checkboxes is not functioning correctly in the "Setup Windows Mobile partnership - What to Sync?" screen Steps to Reproduce: 1. Navigate to and activate the WMDC under control panel 2. Navigate to the "Setup windows mobile partnership" screen 3. Tab to the list of checkboxes 4. Verify JAWS does not indicate that it is a listbox 5. Press spacebar 6. Verify JAWS does not announce the state of the checkbox 7. Press sayLine 8. Verify JAWS does not annoucne the position in group information for the check list item 33759 Internet Explorer : Keyboard help for INSERT+H says it is for IE5 (Jose Vilmar) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Internet Explorer. 2. Press INSERT+1 to get keyboard help. 3. Press INSERT+H and note that it announces: "Says hot key shortcuts for IE 5 and speaks JAWS hot keys in dialog boxes" 33831 Outlook 2007 : When the view is set to show all appointments in the Outlook 2007 calendar, more information needs to be spoken for the selected appointment Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the Outlook 2007 calendar 2. Change the view to show all appointments. 3. Use up and down arrow to navigate the list of appointments. JAWS speaks the subject and nothing more. 33848 Word 2007 : JAWS Announces Style information like section number, page number, etc, the first time that you run JAWS on Word or an open message on Outlook 2007. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unload and reload JAWS. 2. Open a blank document on Word 2007. 3. Press Up Arrow. Results: JAWS will announce style information like Section Number, page number, etc. 4. If you don't see this problem, just unload and reload JAWS with Word 2007 running and you will see it as soon as you press UP ARROW. 33958 Outlook 2007 : The INSERT+F1 help in Adjust JAWS Options dialog gives help for Appointment dialog instead of the Adjust JAWS Options dialog. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007. 2. Move to the messages list and press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Options dialog. 3. Press INSERT+F1 on any control in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog to read the screen sensitive help for that control. In the screen sensitive help, JAWS wrongly mentions that you are in the Appointment Scheduling dialog and gives information about the Appointment Scheduling dialog. 4. Move to the Outlook navigation pane and press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Options dialog. 5. Press INSERT+F1 in the Adjust JAWS Options dialog to read the screen sensitive help. Information of the Appointments scheduling dialog is given in the help. 33968 Outlook : No help text is available for the "Information Bar Messages Announcement" item of the JAWS options dialog in Outlook Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any version of Outlook. 2. Press INS+V to invoke the JAWS options dialog. 3. Press the letter I to navigate to "Information Bar Messages Announcement." 4. Tab once into the "Read Only" text. The "read only" text field is empty. 5. Use up and down arrow to navigate the edit field. No help text will be available. 34004 WinAmp : JAWS is announcing the current track and then the next track after you pass the current playing track on the playlist editor. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play a few MP3 files on Winamp. 2. Press ALT+E until you set playlist editor to On. 3. Press CTRL+TAB until you find the playlist editor. 4. Press the letter B twice to go to track 3. 5. Press HOME to go to the beginning of the list. 6. Press DOWN ARROW twice to go to track 3 and again to pass it. Results: JAWS will announce the information of track 3 and then will announce track 4. Same situation occurs if you use UP ARROW. 34086 Internet Explorer : INSERT+F1 message for Adjust JAWS Options treeview and Personalized Web Settings is giving generic treeview information Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Internet Explorer and press INSERT+V for the verbosity options tree. 2. Press INSERT+F1 and the message is not specific to that control, rather it is generic to treeviews in general. 3. Repeat with INSERT+SHIFT+V for Personalized Web Settings tree and the same thing occurs. 34098 Word : Too much position info is announced when navigating a document or when it first gains focus. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a blank document or one with text in Word. The document announces page and section, column ... info the first time it gains ocus. 2. Press a quick key that changes pages. JAWS may announce change in page, section, and column ... info as this occurs or it may not. 3. Navigate between page boundareies by line. JAWS may or may not announce page, section, and column ... info. 34121 Outlook 2007 : Key Release Not Immediately Honored When Navigating Up or Down in Calendar, Month View Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007 and switch to Calendar, Month View. 2. Press UPARROW or DOWNARROW and keep holding for a few seconds. 3. Release UPARROW or DOWNARROW. Result: even after the key has been released, scrolling continues for a few more seconds. This is different from pressing LEFTARROW or RIGHTARROW, where scrolling stops immediately. 34122 Word : In long documents, QuickKeys M or SHIFT+M Lock Up Word Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a very long Word document (at least 2MB). 2. Turn on Quick Keys. 3. Press M to go to the next misspelling. Result: JAWS is silent for awhile. It may or may not find the misspelling. However, in any case, the computer eventualy freezes, with the need to force a log-off. 34124 Word : JAWS skips the next block of text that comes after a period and a comma during a SayAll. Steps to Reproduce: 1. paste the following text on a Word document: This is text 1. This is text 2..., and this is text 3. This is text 4. 2. Go to the beginning of the text and start a SayAll. Results: JAWS skips the text that comes after the ... and the comma. 34125 Internet Explorer : Cannot click items in Gmail Web Interface with Router Buttons Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into your gmail account. 2. Be sure that you do not use the basic HTML option. 3. Move to an item such as "Compose Mail" and attempt to click a routing button and nothing happens. 4. Press Enter on the same item and it is then activated. 34129 JAWS : JAWS verbosity tree navigation not read if you log off the computer and then log back onto the computer (Stephen Dawes) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the computer with JAWS running as a service. 2. Log into the computer. 3. Log off the computer. (Start button, shutdown, log off) 4. Log in. 5. Open JAWS verbosity, Insert + v. 6. Navigate through the settings, and you don't hear anything. Use SayLine and you hear the highlighted item, but if you cursor through them JAWS does not announce them automatically 34142 Outlook : Cannot navigate by paragraph when composing HTML message in Outlook 2003 or XP. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new message in Outlook and type a few paragraphs. 2. Move through the document by paragraph and JAWS will only read the top line of the message and you don't appear to actually be moved at all. 34155 Outlook 2007 : If you move quickly through a list of messages with the same attributes, JAWS won't speak Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007 and be sure to have several messages in a row that have the same attribute such as unread status. 2. Press DOWN ARROW twice quickly to move down through the list and JAWS will not speak the item on which you land. 3. Find a message with a different attribute such as an attachment and when you move to that message, JAWS speaks. 34157 Outlook : Resuming from Hibernation causing JAWS OSM to fail by not speaking in Outlook Inbox message list. (Michael Hudson) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using Laptop such as Dell D600 Latitude, set the following: 1a. Screen Saver Enabled with password to prompt at Welcome screen. 1b. Hibernation - Enabled. 1c. Set option of closing lid causes Hibernation (instead of Standby). 2. Using JAWS 9.0 set to run at startup. 3. Launch MS Outlook XP (Originally reported with Outlook 2003). 4. Close the laptop lid. 5. Allow the hibernation mode to save to hard drive. 6. Lift lid, and type in password at login welcome screen. 7. Running Outlook, JAWS will not speak when navigating UP or DOWN through Inbox message list. 8. Press JAWSKey+PAGEDOWN. JAWS states status message of "Preparing to Hibernate" after you resumed from hibernation. 34159 JAWS,Outlook : Hibernation - Using INSERT+F11 is not speaking highlight when UP or DOWN ARROW after resuming from a hibernation. (Michael Hudson) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using Laptop such as Dell D600 Latitude, set the following: 1a. Screen Saver Enabled with password to prompt at Welcome screen. 1b. Hibernation - Enabled. 1c. Set option of closing lid causes Hibernation (instead of Standby). 2. Using JAWS 9.0 set to run at startup. 3. Launch MS Outlook XP (Originally reported with Outlook 2003). 4. Close the laptop lid. 5. Allow the hibernation mode to save to hard drive. 6. Lift lid, and type in password at login welcome screen. 7. Press INSERT+F11 to pull up the Select System Tray Icon. JAWS is not speaking current highlight when arrowing UP and DOWN. Nothing selected each time 34173 Word : SayAll should read as expected in read-only and regular multiline edit controls in dialogs. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Microsoft Word. 2. Press INSERT+V to invoke the Adjust JAWS Options dialog box. 3. Move to any option in the tree view, then press TAB to move into the read-only edit field containing context-sensitive help for that item. 4. Press INSERT+DOWN ARROW. Observe that SayAll does not work correctly; JAWS merely reads the first line of the context-sensitive help. The only way to read it is by arrowing to each individual line. 34175 Internet Expplorer : After composing a message in Gmail, the page doesn't properly refresh Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into the Gmail system and compose a message. 2. Aftter writing the message, click on the Send button. 3. Attempt to navigate the page and it is possible that you will see several frames with the word "Loading..." and nothing else. 4. If this doesn't work, try deleting several messages and see if this causes the problem. 5. Move away from, then back to the page. You will probably be placed on the address bar but when you move back to the page, it is refreshed. 34188 Outlook Express : Selecting text in reverse, nothing shows in braille until screen is refreshed. (Leland Maschmeyer) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new message in Outlook Express and be sure you maximize the message window as it is not maximized by default. 2. Type a long line of text, then move to the end of that line and press SHIFT+HOME to select back to the beginning. Text selection is not shown. 3. Press INSERT+ESCAPE to refresh the screen and you now see the text selection. 4. Repeat the steps above, only this time select from the beginning to the end of the line and the selection shows up immediately. 34191 Word,Outlook 2007 : Reading by Sentence causes various phrases to be repeated Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open an email in Microsoft Outlook 2007. 2. Open the JAWSOptionsDialog and set SayAll mode to "SayAll Reads By - Sentence" 3. Close the dialog and perform a SayAll. Note that certain phrases are repeated. 34206 Word : In Word - On selecting and deselecting check box, still Braille continues showing it as a selected one. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached document in Word. 2. Navigate to check box control. 3. Select it by pressing SPACE bar. Braille display shows it as a selected, which is correct. 4. Uncheck the check box by pressing SPACE bar. Braille display continues to show it as a selected one. 34215 Word : Table row and column count is announced as rows change during SayAll. (Gary Wunder) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bring up the attached document or any document with a table in any version of Word. 2. Perform a SayAll. Notice that column count information is announced along with row information as rows in tables change. 34216 Word : If table is nonuniform, incorrect column count is being given as the table is navigated. (Gary Wunder) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached document in any version of Word. 2. Navigate the nonuniform table. The second table is a good example. 3. When you reach the last cell, you don't know it because we give the wrong column count. It only has one column but we claim it has two. 34220 Word : Only tabbing to last cel in table should generate the warning message about adding rows. (Brian Hartgen) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document with tables in any version of Word. 2. Navigate a table by tabs. When the last cell in the table is reached, the warning message should be announced. 3. Navigate the table by Alt+CTRL+Arrows. When the last cell in the table is reached, only the "last cell in table" message should be heard. 4. Press CTrl+Alt+Home form within the table. That takes you to the begnnin gof the table. Then press Alt+CTRLEnd, which takes you to the end of the table. Only the "last cell in table" and "end of table" messages should be heard. 34221 Word : When extra row is added to table, total table row count is not updated. (Brian Hartgen) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document with tables in any version of Word. 2. Navigate a table by tabs. When the last cell in the table is reached, press an extra tab to generate a new row. Notice that the row number is correct, but the total row count for the table still reflects the old total row count. 34231 Outlook 2007 : Unknown function call SayAll reads by textoutput is given on pressing INSERT+V in Outlook 2007. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007. 2. Press INSERT+V to open the Adjust JAWS Options dialog. JAWS gives message "Unknown function call SayAllreadsbytextoutput". 34237 Outlook 2007 : Can not read by character in the "read only" text for items in the JAWS Options dialog for Outlook 2007 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Outlook 2007. 2. Pres INS+V to invoke the JAWS options dialog. 3. Down arrow to an item in the treview then press TAB to move to the "read only" text field. 4. Press RIGHT and LEFT ARROW to navigate by character. Nothing is spoken by JAWS. 5. Repeat steps two through four in another application such as Word or Internet Explore 7. Pressing LEFT or RIGHT arrow will result in JAWS speaking the highlighted character as it should. 34246 Word : When Document Presentation Mode is changed, it does not persist after you Alt+tab away and back Jan Bloem to the app. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached document and from the INSERT+V dialog, set Document Presentation Mode to Screen Layout. 2. Alt+tab away and back to the app. Notice that you are back in simple layout. JAWS 9.0 Preparation and installation steps 1. Download the JAWS 9.0 package. 2. Copy the downloaded file to a place you can easily get to; we recommend you create a folder just for the JAWS installation package. 3. Uninstall the prior 9.0 private beta, choose Remove Shared Components. Reboot. 4. Speech will not be available until the next install, so if needed, launch narrator using WINDOWS Key+U. 5. In order to get the full benefit of recent script changes, development suggests that you go to your user settings folder and delete any setting which is one which ships with JAWS. This includes their default.* settings and especially any Office and Outlook settings. 6. Find the downloaded copy of today's installer package. Exit Narrator, if you it running, and immediately start today's installer. 7. Once you finish the installation, a reboot is required. 8. Go to C:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\Shared\FsTxtSvc\1.0 and double check that the "fstxtsvc.dll" file is gone. If not, delete it. Removing it resolves an issue in Office XP. NOTES: * You do not need to uninstall your previously installed shipping JAWS 7.x or 8.x prior to installing JAWS 9.0. * JAWS 9.0 will install into the "\Program Files\FreedomScientific\JAWS\9.0" folder structure and has its own registry entry that differs from older versions. The JAWS 9.0 shared settings are stored in: "\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\9.0" folder and user settings are stored in:"\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\9.0" folder. TIPS and Troubleshooting Uninstallation and Installation * Install and uninstall with an account which has administrative rights. * If something goes wrong during the install or if you exit the installer, reboot prior to attempting to run the installer again. * If you are uninstalling a previous JAWS build, you should first reboot prior to running the installer if more than 40 minutes has elapsed since the last time the system was booted or the runtime may be timed out. * If after installation you find that your firewall is blocking JAWS from running, you may need to reboot and hold down the JAWSKey while starting JAWS to force JAWS to run in 40 minute mode. Then add the jfw.exe to your firewall's list of allowed applications. * Confirm whether the download was complete by using a free program like FileAlyzer to check the MD5SUM. If you don't already have such a utility, try http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html <http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html> . * If having problems no-one else can reproduce, cleaning your TEMP directory after uninstalling the last beta and installing the current one can be of benefit. Go to c:\Documents and Settings\Username\LocalSettings\temp. Username is whatever the login or account you are using. * If having problems no-one else can reproduce, cleaning your TEMP directory after uninstalling the last beta and installing the current one can be of benefit. Go to c:\Documents and Settings\Username\LocalSettings\temp. Username is whatever the login or account you are using. * Advanced Troubleshooting Installation and Uninstallation for WiX. <ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/WiX/WiXAdvancedTroubleshooting.htm> * When should you remove your personal files? As a Beta Tester it is helpful if you delete your user setting for a new beta build of JAWS during a cycle so that not only do you get the benefit of our fixes to the settings contained in that new build but so that you are exercising the JAWS features for creating those changes that you make to JAWS. You don't have to necessarily delete all your user settings but unless you delete at least those files in your user settings folder which have names which correspond to files in the JAWS shared settings folder then you may not get the benefits of scripting fixes because any user file overrides a shared file. JAWS 9.0 Full Version Download JAWS 9.0.334 Unicode ILM (Internet License Manager) Windows-2000/XP/VISTA/2003Server only. ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/o2a3t/J9.0.356.400-enu.exe <ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/beta/o2a3t/J9.0.356.400-enu.exe> MD5SUM: 1d06760a7b29b658bb94dfd95c65229c *J9.0.356.400-enu.exe The file size is 64 MB which is 66342912 bytes. ________________________________ The FSSDK version for 9.0.356 should be: 10.16.1129.0. The FSDOM, Braille component files, and DCM JAWSVID make up what is known as the FSSDK package; all these files should have the same version number. We provide the file version number as a way to double-check that the installation was correct. Having file versions that do not match could explain irregular behavior with the product. To find files after installation, you can do the following: * The JAWSVID version can be seen by going to Video Intercept Manager via the JAWS Utilities Menu. It can also be check via the Display Chaining Manager from the Start, Programs, JAWS 8.0, Tools menu. Both sources of the information should always match! * The FSDom files can be checked by going to \Program Files\Freedom Scientific\Shared\FSDomSrv\10.12. Press the right-context menu key on any of the FSDom*.dll files and choose Properties, then CTRL+TAB to the version page. * The braille components can be checked by going to \Program Files\Freedom Scientific\Shared\Braille\10.12. Press the right-context menu key on any of the Braille*DLL files and choose Properties, then CTRL+TAB to the version page. * Note: If you are also testing MAGic 10.5 beta, be aware that the FSSDK files are shared; the newer FSSDK version (higher number) will take precedence. This means if you have both JAWS and MAGic betas installed, (i.e. JAWS with FSSDK 10.14.223 and MAGic with FSSDK 10.14.222), the higher 10.14.233 files should be the ones used in both until a higher version is installed. This is regardless of installation order. ________________________________ It is suggested you save these official announcements for reference during this active beta cycle. This is a prerelease product and is covered under nondisclosure: all communication via these lists or privately from FS regarding this testing cycle are considered confidential. Thank you for your time and input! 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