Transcript What`s New in JAWS 17 and MAGic 13.1

What’s New
JAWS 17 and MAGic 13.1
Eric Damery
Vice President Software Product Management
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JAWS 17 – October 2015
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Vice President Software Product Management
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Key New Features
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Licensing changes and Home Use Program
Smart Navigation™ with Semi Auto Forms Mode
Domain specific user settings
Domain specific scripting for web pages/applications
Other Key Features
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License Changes
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JAWS/MAGic 90-Day License
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ILM option sold for $179
Order on-line
Remote Access and JAWS Tandem Direct Enabled
Install and use on up to 3 of your computers
Home Use Program
 Available for employees of companies or organizations with up-todate MultiUser licenses of JAWS
 Employees contact Freedom Scientific Customer Service Dept
directly and purchase from home
 JAWS ($75), MAGic ($50), and OpenBook ($75)
 Hardware products discounted 20%
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Smart Navigation™
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Efficient navigation or complex HTML pages or web-based
applications
Navigate by element rather than characters and words with left
and right arrow keys
Navigate screen lines as they are presented with up and down
arrow keys
Semi Auto Forms mode, improves navigation blocking the sounds
Works IE, Firefox, Chrome, and HTML documents
Navigate tables with arrow keys as you would a spread sheet
JAWSKey+SHIFT+UpArrow reads the row
Set feature on or off in StartUp Wizard or Settings Center
Toggle in and out of the mode on the fly using INSERT+X
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Domain Specific Settings
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Settings Center now offers domain specific JAWS settings
User can define the pages to use Smart Navigation or other
settings
Quick access to feature
 While on web page, press INSERT+F2 and select Settings Center
from list
 Press CTRL+SHIFT+W to load settings file for web pages on the
current domain
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Scripting Web Applications
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Domain specific scripting
Customize JAWS and MAGic for web applications such as
SharePoint or Google Docs
Web specific functions include
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GetDocumentXML: This function obtains well-formed XML from the Dom Server for
parsing using the MSXML com object
PerformActionOnElementWithTagAndAttribute: finds an element in the DOM by tag
and attribute/value pair and performs an action on it such as setFocus, makeVisible,
doDefaultAction, leftClick, or rightClick
PerformActionOnElementWithID: finds an element in the DOM by unique ID and
performs an action on it such as setFocus, makeVisible, doDefaultAction, leftClick or
rightClick
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Other Recent Features
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Support for Office 2016 with both JAWS 17 and MAGic 13.1
Improved Googles Docs with both JAWS 17 and MAGic 13.1
Improved Touch support
 Accessing OnScreen Keyboards for text editing
 Text selection with gestures
 Seach “Touch Screens” in JAWS Help for instructions and to learn
gestures
Liblouis Braille Translator now included
 Both Unified English Braille (UEB) and traditional Contracted English
Braille (CEB)
Convenient OCR of PDF Documents - INSERT+SPACE, O, D
 Quick access with speech and Braille to scanned image documents
 Ability to navigate, select, and copy text
 Included with every install of JAWS
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MAGic 13.1 - February 2016
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Vice President Software Product Management
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Transition Animations
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Continuous smooth motion on the screen
Eliminates the visual jump often seen when
performing these actions
Three types of animation
 Focus changes
 Magnification adjustments
 New screen positions during SayAll
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Text Viewer
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Simultaneously view text
live in the application and
enhanced in the Text
Viewer
Clarifies low contrast,
stylized, and variable
sized text
User designates Text
Viewer display formatting
Position on top or bottom
of screen
Does not block access to
screen objects
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Text Viewer
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Toggle on/off
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Line Panning
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MAGic Key + CTRL+V
MAGic Key + CTRL+ RIGHT/LEFT
ARROW
Provides easy text tracking
while performing a SayAll
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Text scrolls and spotlights to track
SayAll movement
Two text tracking modes
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Speech On Demand™
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Eliminates extra chatter while still being able to use speech
commands
Proof your edits using designated say unit commands
Read through a document using SayAll
Quickly listen to lines of text when editing or browsing using
Mouse Echo
Exclusive to MAGic
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Magnification Levels
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More magnification levels where it counts
 One-tenth-step increments from 1x to 2x
 One-quarter-step increments from 2x to 4x
 Whole-step increments from 4x to 60x
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Lower magnification increments maximize the amount of
information available on the screen
MAGic’s unique 1x Toggle function provides quick toggling
between current magnification level and 1x without loss of visual
enhancements – Exclusive to MAGic
 MAGic Keyboard 1x Toggle Key
 MAGic Key + Shift + Delete
 MAGic Key + Mouse Wheel Click
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Powerful New Productivity
Tools
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Quick Key Navigation speeds Web site access
Research It
 Easy access to Web information without having to navigate
complicated Web pages
 Eliminates the need to filter through information on common Web
pages
 Twenty-three instant lookups including dictionary, weather, news,
sports scores, flight information, yellow pages, and white pages
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Skim Reading
 Easy-to-use interface to build rules to quickly read documents
 Search for particular text or attributes
 Browse through sentences containing the search criteria in the
Results Viewer
 Quickly navigate to the sentence you are on in the original document
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Citrix and Remote Access
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MAGic opens up remote work opportunities for people with low
vision
MAGic supports Citrix, the industry standard for working remotely
with server based applications
Terminal services fully supported
Supports ZEN Desktop and ZEN App
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MAGic Large Print Keyboard
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Easy to see, bold, high-contrast keys
22 specialized keys provides single-key control of MAGic’s mostused features
Works with JAWS
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Certification Program
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Available for both JAWS and MAGic
Updated each year as products change
Online knowledge-based exam
Helps trainers and consultants validate their
understanding
60 Minute test with 80 questions from a pool of hundreds of
questions
Questions and Answers come directly from materials provided
Exam is free and can be taken as many times as needed
Initial certification – $99 US
Certificate renewal for future MAGic releases – $39 US
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Smart Navigation Demonstration
Surf’s Up Form
Surf’s Up Tables
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