JAWS
7.10 Automatic Update Now Available
The second automatic
update for JAWS 7.10, released on November 8, 2006, contains fixes for
issues we addressed for our 7.10 customers. It also includes minor modifications
for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. While the previous JAWS 7.10 update
works well with Internet Explorer 7, it is recommended that anyone installing
Internet Explorer 7 also update to the latest JAWS 7.10 update.
Note:
This update is intended for Windows XP and Windows 2000 users, especially those who have updated to Internet Explorer 7. It does not install on Windows
98 or Windows Me.
To install this update
on a computer with JAWS 7.10 and Windows XP, open the JAWS Help
menu and choose Check for Updates. If you do
not have Windows XP, or the automatic update is unavailable to you, please
download the full version of JAWS 7.10.500
and install it to update your software.
The following is a
list of items that were fixed in this update:
- Resolved a longstanding
issue related to certain video cards, where text that had scrolled by
the mouse pointer may no longer be read by JAWS.
- Fixed an Internet
Explorer 7 issue where navigating the drop-down list of certain combo
boxes in a Web page using the UP ARROW or DOWN
ARROW keys, JAWS would not always read the selected item.
- Fixed the Typing
Echo function, which would not work in an Adobe Reader form opened using
Internet Explorer 7.
- JAWS now supports
multiple user desktops, which solves an issue for the Cisco Secure Desktop
application.
- Fixed the issue
where switching between Eloquence and SAPI 4 synthesizers resulted in
a crash.
- Fixed an issue
where using the TAB key to move about a Web page, and
downloading files from a Web page would cause Internet Explorer to crash.
- JAWS correctly
speaks Microsoft Access form buttons.
- In Microsoft Excel,
if the text in a worksheet cell wraps to form multiple lines, you can
now use the Excel F2 function key and the UP ARROW
and DOWN ARROW keys to hear JAWS speak individual lines.
In previous releases, JAWS would read the entire cell contents.
- Fixed a problem
when selecting text from right to left in NotePad failed if Enhanced
Edit was turned on in this application.
- When localizing
screen sensitive help messages into French, the following characters
are no longer reversed: a and q; w and z.
- Resolved issues
regarding the Japanese keyboard layout and the CAPS LOCK
key.
- Added a new keystroke, INSERT+WINDOWS+F4, which Support Staff can use with customers to terminate JAWS and all related processes while creating a memory
dump file for JAWS at the same time. This will help with further diagnosis in the future if problems arise. The file containing the JAWS version
number will be saved to:
C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\ApplicationData\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\7.10\Settings\JAWSMemDmp
The first automatic
update for JAWS 7.10 was released on July 20, 2006. The
following is a list of items that were fixed in this update:
- When using JAWS,
Windows Explorer no longer fails when you log back on to your computer
after it has gone into hibernate mode or you have locked it.
- When you open a
collapsed item within a tree view, JAWS now consistently announces the
number of sub-items.
- Resolved an issue
where JAWS was not recognizing active Internet connections for some
users attempting to check for updates.
- Resolved several
issues where JAWS would occasionally fail to read the contents of certain
combo boxes.
- List views and
tree views that have been reclassed to be recognized as list views and
tree views are now spoken correctly when navigating or performing the
Say Line command.
- Resolved an issue
in Internet Explorer where some tables were not wrapping correctly in
Screen Layout mode.
- In Internet Explorer,
the "Web RentACrowd" speech and sounds scheme now works correctly.
- When using the
TAB key in Internet Explorer, JAWS no longer announces
the content of combo boxes when you move away from them and move to
another control.
- JAWS no longer
fails when used with certain programs that place a large number of graphics
on a single line.
- The Route Braille
to Active Cursor and Route Braille to PC Cursor commands now work correctly
in rich edit windows, such as WordPad or Outlook messages.
- When switching
JAWS languages, the layered configuration is now switched correctly
as well.
- When you switch
the active JAWS language, all braille settings are now loaded correctly.
- In Outlook and
Outlook Express, resolved an issue where JAWS would only appear to read
the first line of a message.
- In Outlook, JAWS
now speaks superscript or subscript numbers correctly.
- In Microsoft Word,
when you move to a heading with H while JAWS is performing
the Say All command, JAWS now announces the heading and then finishes
reading the document.
- In Microsoft Word,
the INSERT+F6 list of headings now displays correctly
in the German version of JAWS.
- In Microsoft Excel,
when you select an entire row or column, only the first and last cell
coordinates and contents are announced
- JAWS now reads
combo boxes in Adobe Acrobat dialog boxes without requiring you to open
them with ALT+DOWN ARROW.
- New scripts for
Eudora are now available, which fix a number of different issues reported
by users.
- Resolved an issue
in Adobe PhotoShop, SoundForge, and other programs where pressing UP
or DOWN ARROW in a combo box would
speak nothing.
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