[jawsscripts] Re: Windows Live Mail and Other JAWS Scripts Updates
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:02:51 -0800
Given FS' evident business priorities I don't expect jaws to be
relevant a whole lot longer. They aren't hungry enough for
excellence. And for the price they are charging compared to the
competition nothing less than excellence is sufficient.
On 5/19/10, Donald Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following story points out a critical weakness in the JAWS Scripts
> Architecture! There should be a better process for updating user scripts
> when a JAWS update is released! I know some of you have made this easier
> for your particular scripts. This is something I would expect Freedom
> Scientific to resolve in general. However, I see little interest in
> scripting support from Freedom Scientific.
> I finally got Windows Live Mail to work acceptably with JAWS 11! I
> uninstalled the previous JAWS 11, including user settings and scripts, but
> left the shared components. Then I downloaded and installed the new 1447
> version. My previously unresolved issues went away! Well, most of them.
> There are still annoying issues, which I expect happen for all of you; lack
> of auto completion feedback when typing into the To field, no first letter
> navigation of the folder list, and not all of the hotkeys to read or edit
> the headers work correctly. With the new update more of these keys now
> work, like the Date and To fields, with Alt + 2 and Alt + 3, respectively.
> The Subject field, Alt + 6, has always worked. Others, most notably, the
> From field, Alt +1, still does not work.
>
> I have a lot of scripts that I have written and also use several scripts
> created by other JAWS users. Some are merged using container files with the
> default scripts and other applications such as IE and Firefox. Previously,
> I had reinstalled all of these scripts over the old installation, I made
> sure all of the jsb binary files were updated. Evidently, that was not
> enough! I suppose some of the associated files like jsh header files never
> got updated until I completely removed my user settings folder!
>
> My conclusion is that until Freedom Scientific or a third party figure out
> how to properly update the scripts and their support files, using user
> created scripts for JAWS is too cumbersome for the average user! Heck, it
> had me stumped for almost a year! This should really be addressed!
>
> Thanks all for previously attempting to figure this out!
>
> Don Marang
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