Version 7.03 is here
Free update for all version 7 users.
13th Apr, 2007
We are pleased to announce the release of version 7.03 Dolphin Screen Access Software (SuperNova, Hal, Lunar and LunarPlus).
Users who upgrade can take advantage of the following new benefits:
Update patches from 7.01 and 7.02 to 7.03 are now available free of charge on our website or via the Internet Updater. Update patches for network installations and Dolphin Pen editions will be available soon.
Internet and Virtual Focus Improvements & Fixes
- NEW: List of objects for Internet Explorer, (edit fields, list boxes, buttons, radio controls and check-boxes) the hot key for this is Caps Lock + 5
- Added right click option to Internet Explorer links list
- Corrected Forms mode behaviour in IFRAME areas on HTML pages - e.g. in the login part of www.groups.google.com
- Routing Virtual Focus to mouse position is now more accurate on web pages with IFRAME elements.
- Corrected memory leaks in Internet Explorer component
- Corrected Right click on text link in Internet Explorer 7.
General Settings Improvements & Fixes
- NEW: Announce a message when entering the list utility so the user knows something has happened.
- Switching voice/TTS now works correctly using the Left Shift + Left Ctrl + [ hot keys
- Improved Time announcement to say, for example, "one zero one pm" not "one one pm" for one minute past one in the afternoon
- Currency symbols always spoken in all punctuation levels
- Basic mathematical symbols always spoken in all punctuation levels
- Resolved conflict between "Cursor" and "Line" focus highlighting with "on hot key" set
- Repaired Cursor highlight preview when changing the shape through the drop down list
- Corrected Braille prompt with key describe mode. (Caps Lock /)Added Braille input keys for new Baum Supervario/Humanware Brailliant models
- Resolved problems with document reading a Greek document with literary Braille on
- Map export button is now available.
- The "Import" maps option now correctly lists available dtl files
- Resolved problem where Supernova's settings were getting corrupted when Windows was shutting down
- Demonstration version no longer prompts you for registration every 60 seconds
- Resolved issue when switching out of Virtual Focus during a drag and drop operation
- Improved focus detection
- Detect reading of truncated (corrupted) .ucp files and stop with message box
- UCTEDIT Import now works correctly
- Updated Arabic Braille table
MS Office Improvements & Fixes
- Speech output when selecting cells in a table has been improved
- Selected text in Microsoft Word tables is now correctly announced
- Inserting a chart into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet now works correctly
- Resolved issue in Excel graph descriptions
- Correct label is now displayed for numeric items in the Excel graph list utility
- Resolved issue with Microsoft Word 2000.
Windows Settings Improvements & Fixes
- Added Window Settings options to disable ClearType in Internet Explorer and Word 2003.
- Resolved issue with Windows NT4
- Resolved issue in Windows XP Media Center.
Supernova & Hal Professional Training Mode
- NEW: Training mode - added "inches" option to virtual object positioning to cope with different screen dots per inch (DPI's)
- NEW: Added scroll up and scroll down actions - if defined (in a Filter or map) will be used by document read to scroll for non-Dom areas
- Prompt file updated to include "CC" and "BCC", to assist with the mapping of some email software, so that these labels are automatically translated
- Speak prompt operation no longer automatically speaks all punctuation
- Added to "States" dialog "Ignore 1 pixel gaps" and implemented feature in required maps
- Ensure we use the DPI value from the native machine when remote training
- Desktop training mode now only shows tags currently on screen.
Supernova, Hal, Lunar & LunarPlus 7.02
7.02 update patch includes:
Internet and Virtual Focus Improvements & Fixes
- Improved accuracy of virtual focus position on web page headings (Caps Lock + 2)
- Improved accuracy of “move to first edit area” on a web page (LC + LS + Home.)
- Improved heading selection in list utility of headings below the viewable page
- Solved issue of occasional line skipping in Virtual Focus
- Actions for go to taskbar, system tray, read time etc. now report failure if not available
- Corrected problems with list utility - move to table
- Corrected information about frames on a web page
- Option to read table headings on a web page
- Corrected scrolling problem on web page
- Resolved issue when opening the Supernova help from the Supernova control panel with Internet Explorer 7 installed
- Resolved issue with Supernova’s area Virtual Focus in MS Outlook Express 6
- Improved access to HTML windows in Outlook / Outlook Express
- Improved use of system resources on problem web sites
- Auto Virtual Focus route to heading option form headings list now works correctly
- Fix for crash in Internet Explorer
MS Office Improvements & Fixes
- Added right click option to have access to the context menu in Excel, when using the list of work sheets (Caps Lock + 3)
- Slide layout styles are now announced in Live Focus in MS PowerPoint 2003
- In Windows Explorer if you press the first letter of a filename or folder to move to it, the file name is correctly announced
- Clipboard in MS Word 2003 is now spoken/Brailled
- MS Word "Saves As" dialog now speaks and Brailles correctly
- In the "Page setup" dialog in MS Word 2003 the page orientation is now announced correctly
- In the "Page setup"/"Layout" dialog in MS Word 2003 the label "Page borders" fields are now read correctly
- In the "Page setup"/"Layout" dialog in MS Word 2003 colours are now read correctly
- Hyphenated lines in MS Word 2000 now correctly announced
- Resolved focus jumps when selecting pages in MS Word
- Fixed MS Word auto divide issue - each line after a divided word is now correctly announced.
General Settings Improvements & Fixes
- Corrected Dutch translation "Configuration" button in DocReader to fit.
- Improved speed of DocReader document analysis.
- Selected text in WordPad spoken correctly.
- DocReader now uses punctuation settings from the Document Read tab of the Speech Style property sheet.
Windows Settings Improvements & Fixes
- Disabled automatic Internet update code for network workstations.
- Resolved system crashes when using mirror drivers with MS Remote Access and CA Unicenter Remote.
Supernova & Hal Professional Training Mode
- Improved scaling for the 'to fit' option in training mode for XP. (Professional)
- Improved highlighting and selection of objects. (Professional)
This upgrade applies to the Pen and Desktop (CD) versions of SuperNova, SuperNova Pro, Lunar, LunarPlus, Hal and Hal Pro. Free updates are available to download from the support pages of the website for users who are currently running version 7.01 or 7.02.
