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November 15, 2006
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 from: http://www.freedomsci.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp 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
[source: http://www.freedomsci.com/fs_products/software_jaws710update.asp]
Posted by Nancy at November 15, 2006 05:22 PM