I received the following note regarding this issue from Vispero support. Vispero Case# 00526739, Bug: JAWS Does Not Identify Selected or Highlighted Text In The Jarte Word Processor [ ref:_00Df21A3ry.

Mario, while JAWS won't specifically identify or verify the text which has been selected these commands should still allow you to cut, copy, delete and format text until Vispero corrects the issue. Da

Hello. There is a workaround for the bug involving JAWS not identifying selected text when in Jarte. Until the issue has been fixed you can use the place markers feature to mark the beginning of a blo

On another computer I was able to confirm that selected text is not being identified with JAWS 2020. However, it works as expected with JAWS 2019. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Speci

David, your point is valid in that improving accessibility of Office would and arguably should be a higher priority to improving access to a word processor which has ceased development last year. Cert

Mario, I am sorry to tell you that I am able to verify your friend's findings, at least with the January build of JAWS 2021. I've been a user of Jarte for many years and I'm quite certain that this is

Bill, Thanks so much for your suggestion, which led me to the solution. After a bit of trial and error I discovered that it was my default.jcf file which was causing the odd behavior in Brave. Once I

First, I want to say that the problem I’m about to describe is likely not a reproducible JAWS bug but is something which seems to be some sort of corruption unique to my profile. I’m using JAWS 2021,

As a Leasey user I can confirm this. Pressing alt with the grave accent key works as it should with Leasey running. If you need to type the grave accent symbol itself you can press the Leasey key twic

This problem has not occurred for me in years and I'm a bit baffled by it. Running Windows 10, version 2004, on a Dell OptiPlex 740, with Word 365 and JAWS 2021. When I navigate across text with left

Hi. I definitely agree that the home annual license option is the best way to go for those who have a very outdated perpetual license. Unfortunately, this option is still only available to U.S. custom

Hi. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are very similar and they may appear identical on the surface, especially for users of screen readers. However, OpenOffice has a very slow development cycle. LibreOffice

As the compatibility pack is an executable file you can just press the enter key while you are pointing to the file in order to install it. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist J

Hi. If you're referring to the Office Compatibility Pack you can read more about it and download it from this link. The Jarte documentation indicates that this pack was automatically installed for use

Two things come to mind. First, I have seen that if TB has been started before JAWS has been loaded cursor navigation commands in messages that you are composing tend not to work as expected. Cursor n

I'm actually someone who has been using Paragraph navigation on the Web for many years and I find it to be a very efficient way to read. Reading a line of text can be a bit fragmented and I tend to wa

The following text is taken from the May 2020 edition of FSOpenLine. VAUGHN: Right. And is there an update coming to OpenBook? Or is it one of those products that it doesn’t need any of this stuff? ER

Hi. I'm not intending to contradict the previous poster or to in any way invalidate his experiences. I'm running Windows 10, version 2004 with LibreOffice 7 and Microsoft 365 Personal installed and am

Ah, yes, I see the problem. From the Setting Center type "edit" and toggle the setting for enhanced edit mode. That should definitely fix the problem. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology S

Addison, OpenBook 9.0 was last updated in February of 2018. You can download the latest 9.0 release from this page. https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/OpenBook David Goldfield, Blindness