Freedom Scientific has released the JAWS 14.0 Final (14.0.918) for both 32 bit and 64 bit editions of Windows. Jaws now supports latest Windows 8 operating system and FS has added more new features to Jaws 14.0 like Flexible Web.JAWS (Job access with speech) from Freedom Scientific, is a popular and widely used screen reader for Windows operating systems. JAWS enables blind people to independently using the computer to accomplish their daily tasks
like Office work, Internet browsing, Chatting, and any other tasks. Jaws is not only a simple screen reader, it has the ability to read texts from the image and other inaccessible window using OCR (Optical character recognition) which was introduced in JAWS 13, Scripts to make inaccessible applications to be accessible, support of various TTSs (Text-to-speech) and support to various languages including Hindi. User can also use Microsoft Speech API version 5 compatible TTS such as ESpeak to read other languages including some of Indian languages such as Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and few others. Another main feature is Jaws and Invisible cursor. If you switching to Jaws cursor from PC cursor, Jaws reads the line that currently focused by mouse pointer. This feature mainly using for reading contents and activating links and buttons that is not accessible via keyboard. Invisible cursor is also doing the same but it speaks lines without mouse pointer’s help. There are many keyboard shortcuts available to make your tasks easier. These are only some of the features of Jaws, there are more features available to explore. Freedom Scientific has released JAWS ® 14.0 final with the new features such as Flexible web that allows users to hide the unwanted content such as advertisements from the webpages to find and read contents easily. Jaws now supports Windows 8, new OS from Microsoft. Read below to know the other features of Jaws 14
Flexible Web enables you to take more control of Web pages by allowing you to quickly find the content you are looking for, as well as hide content that interrupts the reading experience. You can hide sections of content, such as Google ad frames or other types of unnecessary content, for a smoother reading experience. In addition, you could have JAWS begin reading at a level one heading, or ARIA main region, as these may contain the most interesting content.
To use Flexible Web, open a Web page you want to customize in Internet Explorer or Firefox. Then, move the Virtual PC Cursor to the page element you want to hide, or from where you want to start reading when the page first loads. Activate the Flexible Web wizard by pressing the layered keystroke INSERT+SPACEBAR, X. Alternatively, press INSERT+F2 to open the Run JAWS Manager dialog box, then choose Flexible Web.
Through several easy-to-follow steps, The Flexible Web wizard that opens provides you with two options: hide or start reading at the selected element. The wizard then guides you through the process of creating a temporary customization by giving you various choices about the selected element and how you want to hide it or from where exactly to start reading. Once the customization has been made, it is immediately applied to the page. For instance, if you choose to hide all frames containing advertisements, you will not see any advertisements when navigating the page after making this temporary customization.
If you are not happy with how a customization is working, you can open the Flexible Web wizard to undo the last customization you made. When you return to the page, you can choose a different element or the same one, then reactivate the Flexible Web wizard to retry the customization again perhaps with different criteria. For example, in the case of hiding those advertisement frames mentioned earlier, you probably want to hide all of them, not just the first one on the page. The wizard will provide you with choices about whether to hide just the first one or all of them.
You can create as many customizations for a page as you want. Once you have created one or more customizations, you can save them as a rule, which is applied every time you load the particular page or site. To indicate that a rule has been applied to a page, JAWS plays a sound after the page loads. Rules can be applied to the current Web page, entire Web site, or globally for all Web sites. Otherwise, customizations are only temporary and are lost as soon as you navigate away from the current Web page or close the browser. If you have made temporary customizations and you attempt to navigate to another page or close the browser, a dialog box opens asking if you want to save your customizations as a rule.
To learn more about using Flexible Web, refer to the Flexible Web help topic in the JAWS online help (f1). Please visit here to read the full release notes from FreedomScientific site. Download links of Jaws and related downloads below.
Download JAWS 14.0.918 64-bit
Download OCR for Convenient OCR 32 and 64 bit
Download Vocalizer Direct Synthesizer from this page.
(Find the link from the desired language option)
Download JAWS 14.0.918 USB Thumb Drive 32-bit
Download Jaws 14.0.918 USB Thumb Drive 64-bit
Download FS Video Intercept 32-bit
Download FS Video Intercept 64-bit
like Office work, Internet browsing, Chatting, and any other tasks. Jaws is not only a simple screen reader, it has the ability to read texts from the image and other inaccessible window using OCR (Optical character recognition) which was introduced in JAWS 13, Scripts to make inaccessible applications to be accessible, support of various TTSs (Text-to-speech) and support to various languages including Hindi. User can also use Microsoft Speech API version 5 compatible TTS such as ESpeak to read other languages including some of Indian languages such as Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and few others. Another main feature is Jaws and Invisible cursor. If you switching to Jaws cursor from PC cursor, Jaws reads the line that currently focused by mouse pointer. This feature mainly using for reading contents and activating links and buttons that is not accessible via keyboard. Invisible cursor is also doing the same but it speaks lines without mouse pointer’s help. There are many keyboard shortcuts available to make your tasks easier. These are only some of the features of Jaws, there are more features available to explore. Freedom Scientific has released JAWS ® 14.0 final with the new features such as Flexible web that allows users to hide the unwanted content such as advertisements from the webpages to find and read contents easily. Jaws now supports Windows 8, new OS from Microsoft. Read below to know the other features of Jaws 14
What’s New in Jaws 14:
- Flexible Web
- Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2007 Virtual Buffer Message Support
- Support for Vocalizer Direct Synthesizer from Nuance Communications
- Windows 8 Support including Windows 8 Start Screen and Search Tool Support, and Jaws cursor support.
- View Clipboard Text
- Text Analyzer Enhancements
- Select between Temporary PlaceMarker and the Current Position in HTML
- Removing Unwanted Flash and Frame Announcements
- ARIA Support
- JAWS Find Searches Convenient OCR Content
- Move to Next or Prior Separator in IE and Firefox
- New Settings Center option for Configuring Punctuation Level
- SAPI 5 64-bit Support
- New Keystrokes for Permanently Changing Speech Rate: Press CTRL+WINDOWS Key+ALT+PAGE UP to increase the rate and press CTRL+WINDOWS Key+ALT+PAGE DOWN to decrease the rate.
- Command to Append to Clipboard changed to Insert+Windows+C
- Scripting Enhancements
What is Flexible Web?
Frequently, you will encounter Web pages that contain a lot of excess content which can make it difficult to locate the actual content you want, or interrupts the flow when reading. For instance, many sites contain Google ad frames. These can be troublesome for JAWS users as they disrupt the reading order of surrounding content.Flexible Web enables you to take more control of Web pages by allowing you to quickly find the content you are looking for, as well as hide content that interrupts the reading experience. You can hide sections of content, such as Google ad frames or other types of unnecessary content, for a smoother reading experience. In addition, you could have JAWS begin reading at a level one heading, or ARIA main region, as these may contain the most interesting content.
To use Flexible Web, open a Web page you want to customize in Internet Explorer or Firefox. Then, move the Virtual PC Cursor to the page element you want to hide, or from where you want to start reading when the page first loads. Activate the Flexible Web wizard by pressing the layered keystroke INSERT+SPACEBAR, X. Alternatively, press INSERT+F2 to open the Run JAWS Manager dialog box, then choose Flexible Web.
Through several easy-to-follow steps, The Flexible Web wizard that opens provides you with two options: hide or start reading at the selected element. The wizard then guides you through the process of creating a temporary customization by giving you various choices about the selected element and how you want to hide it or from where exactly to start reading. Once the customization has been made, it is immediately applied to the page. For instance, if you choose to hide all frames containing advertisements, you will not see any advertisements when navigating the page after making this temporary customization.
If you are not happy with how a customization is working, you can open the Flexible Web wizard to undo the last customization you made. When you return to the page, you can choose a different element or the same one, then reactivate the Flexible Web wizard to retry the customization again perhaps with different criteria. For example, in the case of hiding those advertisement frames mentioned earlier, you probably want to hide all of them, not just the first one on the page. The wizard will provide you with choices about whether to hide just the first one or all of them.
You can create as many customizations for a page as you want. Once you have created one or more customizations, you can save them as a rule, which is applied every time you load the particular page or site. To indicate that a rule has been applied to a page, JAWS plays a sound after the page loads. Rules can be applied to the current Web page, entire Web site, or globally for all Web sites. Otherwise, customizations are only temporary and are lost as soon as you navigate away from the current Web page or close the browser. If you have made temporary customizations and you attempt to navigate to another page or close the browser, a dialog box opens asking if you want to save your customizations as a rule.
To learn more about using Flexible Web, refer to the Flexible Web help topic in the JAWS online help (f1). Please visit here to read the full release notes from FreedomScientific site. Download links of Jaws and related downloads below.
Download:
You can download Jaws 14.0.918 32 bit and 64 bit, Jaws 14.0.918 USB Thumb Drive version (Portable Jaws) 32 bit and 64 bit, Freedom scientific Video Intercept Manager for Portable versions, OCR Engine for Convenient OCR (32 bit & 64 bit). And Vocalizer Direct Synthesizer from below links. Download JAWS 14.0.918 32-bitDownload JAWS 14.0.918 64-bit
Download OCR for Convenient OCR 32 and 64 bit
Download Vocalizer Direct Synthesizer from this page.
(Find the link from the desired language option)
Download JAWS 14.0.918 USB Thumb Drive 32-bit
Download Jaws 14.0.918 USB Thumb Drive 64-bit
Download FS Video Intercept 32-bit
Download FS Video Intercept 64-bit
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