So, the Jaws11 testing fun began today. I've found a few things so far that have already been sent via the bug reporting to FreedomScientific. It would be great if Jaws had an error reporting tool built in similar to that found in Window Eyes by GWMicro... But we can only live in hope. They've boasted that they've fixed a lot and added more features in this most recent version but I'm not impressed. In fact, I'm really unimpressed. Research it... A tool that cant even stand up to Qwitter, a tool made by a few people working in their spare time. No reflection on Qwitter, I think it's a fantastic piece of work and if FS had any sense, they'd snatch up the developers behind it! Qwitter pulls back information via API's and does loads with it. FreedomScientific reads an XML file and gives the information back in the virtual buffer! And even with that, they've only worked on a few feeds that are only of particular interest to their American customers. Utterly Utterly pointless if you ask me and as Stuart Lawler said today, is that really the job of a screen reader anyway? When they cant even provide access to widely used applications should they be thinking of branching out into this type of functionality? Not that I think this took them much time at all. It was probably a small project by one person to tick a box leading up to the release schedule for JFW11. Lets also look at their placemarkers enhancement. They've basically coppied the work done by GWMicro in Window eyes. Their basically searching for text / pointers on the page to find the place you want. So, their not just relying on the line number alone! well, well done FreedomScientific! It only took you two years to think of that? Wow! Next, look at their outlook message list customization. So, they've just rehashed the customize list view tool to provide a bit more customization. And they've released that in an entirely new version? Aren't they great? Shouldn't we be ever so greatful for all the work they've done on this release? OH. Then they actually admit that this is really similar to their customize list view feature. It just gets better and better. Their skype enhancements. Well, from what I can see, their skype enhancements are a load of rubbish. I'm running Skype 4.1 here and when I checked what scripts were running it said 3.x. Now, I don't mind this too much. I know I can go download the version 4.1 scripts from the third party developer who I also must say has done a fantastic job on them but they've written it there on the page that they support version 4.1. Not from what I can see though. Jaws 11 now also supports UIA, the standard that has taken over from Microsoft Active Accessibility. This is something that has been out in the public domain for almost three years if not even longer than that. Microsoft have had that ready for companies like FreedomScientific to start working with since before they released Windows Vista! It's amazing that their only supporting that now. I could go into more but I'm not going to bother at the moment. I'm not entirely annoyed with Jaws 11. There are some good features as well. The multable sound card support has been improved and jaws sounds during jaws tandem was improved also. But, I dont' really understand how it took them an entire year to release what should have been done in the first place. If your interested, You can follow the Twitter updates by a number of Jaws11 users via the following link: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Jaws11 Have fun.