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Re: JAWS 18 - safe to upgrade

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From: Mallory
Date: Jun 10, 2017 10:49AM

I had a large bug in 16 (where while the Dutch voice read out iframe
content, the English voice acted as though the iframes weren't on the
page at all!) which forced me to upgrade to 18. So far, the stuff I
normally test is acting as expected, and I've had no crashes yet. With
16 it was not unusual for opening complex powerpoints (with mathML etc
in them) and watching 16 slow to a crawl and then fall back to the
default Dutch voice. 18 deals with these better, for me.

cheers,
_mallory

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017, at 08:10 PM, J. Isaac wrote:
> I haven't had any issues with Shaws 18 on the web. There are the standard
> Microsoft office issues though. Should be safe to upgrade.
> HTH,
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> ==J
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> > On Jun 8, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Andrews, David B (DEED) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> > Well this is a pretty subjective statement and like with most things in IT, it depends. I suspect there are multiple variables, like video, other software you are running etc. Personally, my observation is that JAWS 18 isn't more stable, or unstable then other recent releases. It has been a little unstable for a while, but it is also better at recovering from some situations. I have seen much more instability of late, in Internet Explorer 11, I have a lockup once a day or more. And ... Chrome and Firefox aren't perfect easier ... so what is a blind guy to do?
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> > Dave
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> > p.s. Upgrade one machine, and just try. I always leave one previous JAWS version, sometimes two, on all my machines at work, and at home!
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