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Sent: Friday, June 09,
2017 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: A history of
Jaws and Windows, was: training modules
I certainly do remember the
days of optacons. I tried getting one myself, but by that time, they
were no longer making them, and you couldn’t even get parts. That was
about 28 years ago. LOL
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I agree with you, David,
1,000 percent. On one of my jobs, one of the doctors said that I worked in
two languages, because I had Braille notes, took Braille short hand, but
used my Optacon a lot more than I did Braille.
On that particular job, a
requirement was that you had to make any corrections or modifications to
reports. There was a blind guy that worked downstairs in Medical Records,
and his wife had to do all of his. I worked up in Surgical Pathology. This
was in the 70's, when we had multiple carbons, different colors. So, I had
to keep those little slips that you use for the carbons and keep up with the
colors. I had to carefully roll the typewriter to check with the Optacon
about where to make the change. I could do them or would not have kept the
job.
There is an Optacon Users
List, sporatic traffic. A guy in Canada is trying to develop an Optacon that
is more in line with today's technology.
I, for one, think that
technology can be a sort of other god to some. For what the Optacon does, I
think its technology is state of the art. The only improvement I could
suggest would to be to see if the noise it makes could be reduced.
Best From,
Carolyn
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
David Moore
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2017
8:54 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: A history of
Jaws and Windows, was: training modules
Wow!
I still have my Optacon, and
I read mail with it.
I read the computer screen
with my Optacon,and it went very well. I had a job where I did just that,
The Optacon allowed me to feel everything that was on the screen. Wow, that
is so great! The Optacon was one of the best assistive technologies ever, in
my apinion. It is sad that most blind people do not know what the Optacon
is, but I used it to read all of my math and science textbooks, so I could
get a degree in math. I could trace all calculus graphs, charts, feel how
the equations were set up, and on and on. I could feel, under my finger,
what a sighted person sees. That is still so exciting to me. OCR does not
compare to the Optacon for small little things that you want to read like a
tag on a package, a piece of mail, or read what is on a computer screen. I
really wish that someone could bring it back, or a entire community would
bring it back. I would be right there, fighting and doing all I could do to
bring it back.
Have a great one,
guys!
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From: Randy Barnett <mailto:randy@...>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2017
8:15 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: A history of
Jaws and Windows, was: training modules
I too started with a Comadore
64 but I culd still see back then. My first experience with Jaws was v3.7
and have been useing it ever since.
I thought my serial No was
old being in the 40,000's. LOL
On 6/9/2017 10:14 AM, Bob
Hicks wrote:
Oh my gosh, I still have my Opticon!
Have a great day!
Bob Hicks
From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Richard Turner
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2017 10:25 AM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: A history of Jaws and Windows, was: training
modules
I started out with a Commodore 64 using an OPTACON to read the screen in
about 1983 or so. Hard to remember back that far
Richard
From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 3:39 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: A history of Jaws and Windows, was: training modules
I probably have most of you beat, my Jaws serial number is 1056. I first
bought Jaws for DOS in 1989, I think it was version 1.1, when Windows 3.1
came out in 19992 I used it alongside DOS.
Jaws for Windows was actually first released in January 1995, it was JFW 1.0
with support for Windows 3.1/3.11 and Windows for Workgroups
3.1.
JFW 2.0 was released in 1996, not sure when, it had support for Windows 95
which was released in August of 1995. Back in those days there usually was
not support for a new OS version at the time of release.
I am looking some of this up in a Wikipedia article, for some reason they
skip JFW 3.0.
In between, in 1998, 1999 and 2000 we of course had the release of Windows
98, 98SE and Millennium.
Windows XP was first released on August 24, 2001
JFW 4.0 which came out in September 2001 and I am pretty sure it support
Windows XP.
JFW 4.5 came out in August of 2002 and it was the first version which had
quick nav keys for IE.
JFW 5.0 was October 2003 and then there was a longer gap as JFW 6.0 didn't
come out until March 2005, it introduced the ILM licensing
scheme.
JFW 7 was released later that same year (2005) and 7.1 is listed with a
release date of June 2006.
Windows Vista was released in November of 2006 and I'm pretty sure JFW 8
which was released in November of 2006 had support for it as well as
introducing Realspeak Solo voices. From here on it seems to go to the annual
release schedule in late October/early November.
Other milestones:
Jaws Tandem was released with Jaws 10 in November 2008
Windows 7 was released in July of 2009 and JFW 11 came out in the fall with
support for Windows 7 and it introduced Research It
In 2010 JFW 12 replaced the old configuration manager with the Settings
Centre
Jaws 13 in 2011 introduced one of my favourite features, Convenient
OCR.
JFW 14 in 2012 came with Windows 8 support and Flexible Web
JFW 15 in 2013 had Windows 8 touch screen support and introduced FS Reader
3.0
JFW 16 in 2014 introduced command search in Settings Centre and Convenient
OCR which in V13 only applied to graphics on the screen was expanded to
handle entire PDF documents
Windows 10 first was released on July 29, 2015 and an update to Jaws 16 from
the previous fall had initial support for it.
JFW 17 in 2015 introduced smart navigation for tables and Liblouis, an open
source braille translator
Finally JFW 18 in 2016 (last fall) introduced mouse echo, audio ducking and
Settings import/export was reintroduced.
Here is a link to the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_(screen_reader)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_%28screen_reader%29>
Regards,
Sieghard
From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Tony
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 2:52 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: training modules
I had an early demo version that was something like 0.76 with a serial in
the 3000s.
I should have stock in the company since I have owned every version since
DOS, either purchased or through paying for skipped updates.
Tony
From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Ronnie Hill
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 4:32 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: training modules
Well I can't remember which year I did stgarted with JAWS Version of
3.3!
I guess it was around 1998
I thought that the first JAWS version was started from 3.2 it amazing
to know it started from version 3 but I'm not sure.
Cheers everyone.
Ronnie from London.
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From: Bob Hicks <mailto:bob@...>
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: training modules
Hard to believe I started on JAWS 3.1 isn’t it!
Have a great day!
Bob Hicks
From: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io> [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of
Carol Smith via Groups.Io
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 3:24 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io <mailto:main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: training modules
If you open the FS reader, you should be able to access tutorials from there
by pressing control+J. There are links to tutorials. If they are
not already downloaded and placed in the appropriate place, the program will
do this for you. These are in Daisy format and you can use control+P
to toggle play and pause.
This is a global key command, so as long as the reader is open, it takes
presidence over other programs using that key command. This makes it
very handy if you want to practice what you are reading in an open
program. This information should be enough to get you
started.
Carol
On 6/8/2017 2:46 PM, Bob Hicks wrote:
I downloaded my version of Jaws 18. How do I git the training modules
into FS reader? tia
Have a great day!
Bob Hicks
