32 & 64 Bit:
What's new:
Enhancements in JAWS 2020.2003.13 (March
2020)
The following is a list of improvements made between the February 2020
release and the March 2020 update.
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software.
list of 21 items
• In Office 365 and 2019, JAWS and Fusion now
properly announce column and row titles for tables in Word documents when
navigating using JAWS table reading
keystrokes (ALT+CTRL+ARROW keys). For
users who prefer to turn off reading of titles while navigating tables for the
current document or for all documents,
these options can be configured
through JAWS Quick Settings (INSERT+V) by searching for "table" or "title."
•
If the view in Outlook 365 or 2019 is set to show messages by date, JAWS and
Fusion will now indicate using both speech and Braille the date change
when
you move from one day to the next in messages lists. For example, as you
navigate a list of messages covering multiple days, when you move to the
first
message in the new date group, you will hear announcements such as
"today," "yesterday," "last week," or "two weeks ago."
• In Microsoft Teams,
addressed an issue where JAWS was not always reading as expected when navigating
between messages in a conversation thread.
• Resolved an issue where
Microsoft Teams would stop responding for several seconds when CTRL+BACKSPACE
was pressed to delete a word in a chat edit field.
• Added a new Language
Processing group, located under Text Processing in Settings Center. This group
now contains the options for configuring language
detection which allows JAWS
and Fusion to automatically switch to the appropriate synthesizer language when
encountering text in documents and web pages
in different languages.
• In
response to customer feedback, the keystroke to display the text of the current
control in the JAWS Virtual Viewer so it can be selected and copied
has been
changed to INSERT+SHIFT+V. In Microsoft Teams, this command will also virtualize
the currently selected item in a list of messages in a conversation.
• The PC
Cursor is now active by default in the Weather, News, and Windows Store
applications. Since this cursor now works much better in these apps, it
is no
longer necessary to use the Touch Cursor.
• JAWS now indicates when text on a
web page is marked as deleted or inserted.
• Addressed issues with JAWS and
Fusion not always reporting the correct information when navigating tables in
Chrome and Edge Chromium.
• When using the ARROW keys or Navigation Quick
Keys to move between controls on web pages like check boxes, resolved an issue
where the visual highlight
was not properly tracking the location of the
Virtual Cursor.
• Addressed an issue where pressing Navigation Quick Key G to
move to graphics on web pages was not working as expected in both the Chrome and
Edge Chromium
browsers.
• Addressed a customer reported issue with JAWS
not identifying edit fields on certain websites in Chrome.
• If Contracted
Braille input is enabled and you select all text in a document using CTRL+A,
resolved an issue where using the Braille command LEFT SHIFT+D
(DOTS 1-4-5)
was not deleting the selected text as expected.
• Removed extra blank lines
that were appearing in the JAWS Virtual Viewer when using WINDOWS Key+SEMICOLON
to display comments in Word documents.
• Resolved a customer reported issue
where attempting to use voice aliases to indicate attributes such as bolded text
were not working when using Vocalizer
Expressive.
• Resolved an issue
where the emoji for a red heart was being incorrectly spoken as a black
heart.
• When using the Wikipedia Research It lookup source, only the link to
the article is now displayed. Due to changes with the Wikipedia website, JAWS
is
no longer able to retrieve the synopsis.
• You can now press
INSERT+SHIFT+B in either desktop or laptop keyboard layout to obtain battery
status and charging information as well as network connection
status. You can
also still use CAPS LOCK+SHIFT+B in the laptop keyboard layout to read this
info.
• Added a new dictionary entry for "endnote" that is specific to the
Eloquence synthesizer to improve this announcement for Fusion users. Other
synthesizers
like SAPI5 and Vocalizer Expressive already speak this
correctly.
• Resolved a long-standing issue where configuring individual
punctuation settings for a voice profile using the Voice Adjustment dialog box
was not working
properly. For instance, if you set the punctuation level to
None for the PC Cursor voice, but leave it set to Most for the JAWS Cursor,
Keyboard, and Tutor
and Message voices, JAWS should now use the correct
punctuation setting depending on the active voice.
• Updated the JAWS Hot Key
Help (INSERT+H) for Skype to remove references to the Back button that existed
in prior Skype versions and is now no longer
available.
list
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