Eric Damery, by way of his Skype status message, reports that JAWS 8.0.2152 is “coming soon”. Here’s hoping that Freedom Scientific will finally start addressing blank virtual buffers and other serious stability issues with this build.
This is another amazing article from Blind Christian. He writes about much more than the need for many of us to run multiple screen readers on our systems. The concept of a blind person being fired over technology inaccessibility remains more than repugnant to me, and I would absolutely love to learn more about the… Finish Reading The Need for Multiple Screen Readers
Doug Lee has recently released a new revision of his JAWS scripts for Skype. Revision 416 now incorporates improved support for the latest version 3.2 of this important voice chat application. We thank Doug and his contributors for this fine script set that makes our lives much easier and our use of Skype much more… Finish Reading Revised JAWS Scripts Now Available for Skype 3.2
Thanks to Karen for this wonderfully creative, poetic contribution. On Thursday May 17, we received some disturbing News,Freedom Scientific, they did choose,To Sue Serotek, they want to devour,Found out this at a late hour,This made me angry, yes indeed,If you have not already, do read,The lawsuit that was filed, and the accusations made, more to… Finish Reading Today’s KDD: Jaws Attacks; Take the Byte out of Crime
Executable installerhttp://www.EmpowermentZone.com/kitsetup.exe Zip archivehttp://www.EmpowermentZone.com/kitsetup.zip HomerKit 2.0Released May 18, 2007 HomerKit is (1) a set of tools to help build JAWS scripts and (2) theapplication of those tools in script sets for several programs. Theunifying intent of these script sets is a powerful, consistent keyboardinterface for tasks related to editing, navigating, and managingdocuments. Currently, programs with… Finish Reading HomerKit 2.0 for JAWS users and script developers
The following tech tip is derived from a message I wrote to a mailing list in response to a request for help to remove JAWS from the order of windows presented when changing tasks using the Alt+Tab command. You can run JAWS from the System Tray instead of the Taskbar, which will remove it from… Finish Reading Moving JAWS to the System Tray
David Bailes from the U.K. is making available, free of charge, several guides for using JAWS and screen magnification software with applications such as Audacity and Windows Media Player 11. It is worth your time to visit the VIP Software Guides web site to check out this valuable resource.
Freedom Scientific has come out with a new update to JAWS 8.0. This makes the third update for Windows 2000 and XP users and represents Public Beta 2 for Vista users. Most importantly on Vista is that this version now supports User Access Control (UAC). In the update’s release notes, the following interesting statement is… Finish Reading New JAWS 8.0 Update "successfully handles and reads Ajax-enabled Web pages when using Internet Explorer 7"?
Those of you who are hoping that the blank virtual PC cursor issues will be resolved in the upcoming release of JAWS 8.00.1171 are in for a big disappointment. I’ve been running this new build for a couple of days now, and have experienced the issues in both Internet Explorer 7.0 and Outlook Express thus… Finish Reading Blank Virtual Buffer Issues Persist in JAWS 8.0 Build 1171
Freedom Scientific has addressed specific issues with tabbing, forms mode and Adobe Flash in Internet Explorer running under Windows 2000 in an upcoming JAWS 8.0 build to be released in the very near future. Customers experiencing these concerns may contact Freedom Scientific’s technical support department to receive a patch that addresses these issues now. The… Finish Reading Windows 2000 Internet Explorer Issues Addressed, JAWS 8.0 Build 1166 Auto Update Explained