[nfb-talk] Fw: Accessible Devices Important Information About Upcoming I E 7 Release Especially For Jaws Users
Christopher McMillan
chrismcmillan at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 18 05:09:59 CDT 2006
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From: "Christopher McMillan" <chrismmcmillan at gmail.com>
To: "GUI Talk" <gui-talk at NFBnet.org>; <rehab at nfbnet.org>; "NFB Talk"
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:42 AM
Subject: Fw: Accessible Devices Important Information About Upcoming I E 7
Release Especially For Jaws Users
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From: Parker at Vip conduit
To: Accessible Devices
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:55 PM
Subject: Accessible Devices Important Information About Upcoming I E 7
Release Especially For Jaws Users
Please Note we are providing this for your information only.
*** We are unable to provide any tech support. ***
FYI
IE7 is soon to be on it's way to you via the Windows Update feature.
Currently very few Assistive Technology products support the new version of
the popular browser. And in some cases you will have to obtain an paid
upgrade for better support or compatibility to IE7. The danger is that you
may have Automatic Updates set on your computer or network. Which could be
bad when you boot up to a whole new browser. To prevent this, you can go
into Control Panel, Automatic Updates and set them to "Notify me but do not
download updates". You will have to be on the look out for IE7 in the
Critical Updates next time Microsoft issues a patch. For that you must
strike IE7 from the list of available downloads in Windows or Microsoft
update.
On November 1, 2006, Microsoft will turn on automatic updates to allow you
to get IE7 through the automatic update service. If you want it sooner,
then get it from Microsoft on October 18. If you are a Window-Eyes user,
you are all set if you are running version 5.5 of Window-Eyes. Some new
enhancements for IE 7.0 will appear in Window-Eyes 6.0 this week. If you
are a JAWS user, then JAWS 7.1 will function except for combo boxes.
Official support for IE 7.0 will ship with JAWS 8.0.
JAWS version 8 will include support for Internet Explorer 7, support for
shared calendars in Microsoft Outlook, enhanced functionality in many
Microsoft Office programs, and inclusion of high-quality RealSpeak speech
synthesizers for those who want to use them. If you want to hear what they
will sound like, try the sound samples at
<
http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/languages/>http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/languages/
Window-Eyes Version 6.0 Beta 1 due for release on 16 October. Version 6
provides support for the Microsoft Outlook Calendar and for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint among other enhancements. Gw Micro is posting teaser articles to
its web site and podcast series describing the new features.
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