New in COBRA 9.1

COBRA 9.1 
-	Is considerably more stable, more powerful, more flexible and much faster than its predecessors 
-	Supports Office 2010 (32 bit) with powerful functions
-	Includes many new features for screen magnification
-	Has the best access to JAVA applications
-	Is available in more then 12 language versions
-	Can work together with more than 120 different brands and types of Braille displays
-	Has a strongly optomized COBRA Explorer that supports the Beta-versions of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 already

COBRA 9.1 supports the following operating systems:

-	Windows XP (32 bit)
-	Windows Vista (32 bit)
-	Windows 7 (32 und 64 bit)

Three different versions of COBRA 9.1 are at your disposal:

-	COBRA 9.1 Braille 
-	COBRA 9.1 Zoom
-	COBRA 9.1 Pro

COBRA 9.1 Braille provides Braille and speech output. COBRA 9.1 Zoom provides screen magnification and speech output.
COBRA 9.1 Pro provides all three: Braille and speech output as well as screen magnification.

New functionality for the screen magnification:

-	Implementation of fractional magnification ranges: 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3.25, 3.5 and 3.75
-	Support for screen magnification for multi-monitor use (2 monitors and more)
-	Improved positioning of the magnification during focus tracking.

New in COBRA Explorer:

-	Considerable performance improvement when jumping from link to link which can be noticed especially when surfing on websites that contain a large number of links.
-	Responsiveness of the Braille display improved considerably.
-	Improved performance during start-up gives you better control.
-	As soon as COBRA Explorer starts to process information, during the beginning a signal will sound.
-	During the loading of a website a signal will sound every two seconds and on the Braille display every second the progress can be read. Another acoustic signal will sound upon showing the information. These new sounds can be modified/changed in COBRA Menu in Extras/Sounds.
-	In Acrobat Reader line breaks are recognized.
-	Internet Explorer 9 Beta (32 bit) is supported.
-	Firefox 4 Beta 6 is supported (see also recommended Firefox configuration in COBRA Quickmenu)
-	Upon closing COBRA Explorer, dependably no "C" is shown anymore on the status modules so it is clear to determine where you are located.
-	Better handling and recognition of Flash buttons.
-	Percentile progress during continuous reading is now also presented on the status modules.
-	Line breaks in programming code sections or in HTML emails are now recongnised (pre-formatted text).
-	Improvements when selecting (Braille and speech output synchronised).
-	Automatic reading is now functioning.
-	COBRA Explorer is not started anymore from the Internet Explorer dialog “Favorites / Organise farvorites”.
-	After a change in focus and return to COBRA Explorer, the previous position is remembered when COBRA Explorer was left instead of returning to the beginning of the page.
-	Improvement of the search and search further function. When on a new website not yet has been searched through Ctrl+F and still is being searched with an old search text, there is no message any more that no text has been found but the search-dialog will open in which still is the previous search text. This way the previous search text can be further used or replaced by a new search text.
-	Problems with tracking of opened combo boxes when using Firefox have been solved (i.e. Programme options on the text pages of hoerzu.de).
-	Check boxes in Firefox can be modified again using the space bar.
-	Complete presentation of contributions in mailing lists (i.e. Forum: www.drwindows.de).
-	Information of text and graphical links in Firefox are correctly presented.
-	On the Austrian website PSK the entry of user data within Internet Explorer is now correctly presented / tracked.
-	When during opening a new website is focused onto a form field or is jumped from form mode into the next HTML-element in COBRA Explorer, after speaking of the actually focused element not any longer also the next focused element is spoken.
-	The search dialog (Ctrl+F) now comes dependably into the foreground.
-	Considerable improvements when opening edit boxes, combo boxes, etc.
-	Pages with borders from Firefox are now presented correctly within COBRA Explorer.
-	In Firefox the contents of the browser are presented correctly on a Braille display.
-	When form mode is activated the problem of unwanted opening of form fields has been solved, when moving up/down line-wise in COBRA Explorer.
-	Improvement with recognition and presentation of labels of edit boxes, check boxes and option buttons.
-	Problem with invisible elements on websites in Internet Explorer solved.
-	Problem with pointer solved when zoom in Internet Explorer isn’t set as equal to 100%.
-	Problem with COBRA Explorer solved when link activation was ended under certain circumstances (i.e. www.iscb.de).
-	Problem when the object of a link isn’t in the label but in its name and when focusing on internal links is solved (i.e. www.iscb.de).
-	Problems solved when activating/de-activating of check boxes (i.e. www.nmbs.be).
-	Problem when links on the Windows Update Website are activated has been solved.
-	Multi-line edit boxes are now correctly opened when using automatic form mode or on set to manual.
-	The search dialog now also comes to the foreground correctly when using Windows 7 (32 bit) and Internet Explorer 8.
-	Classified, unclassified and definition lists are now optimally recognized.

New in Microsoft Word:

-	Problem of making mistakes when reading of lines in tables has been solved.
-	In spelling dialog the misspelled word is spelled now in such a way that no comma’s are being spoken anymore.
-	Wrong MSAA-labeling for inserting and selecting of text has been corrected.
-	Continuous reading has been generally improved. Now always is started at the correct position, speech and Braille are now synchronized.
-	When in a search dialog is pressed on “Next”, there is now a quick message that also presents the found position.
-	Check boxes and their status are now correctly recognized/presented in Word forms.
-	Continuous reading can now also be started by typing *120 on both TASO-module and CeBox.
-	The cursor echo when moving arrow keys, Ctrl+Arrows has been significantly improved.
-	Lines that are followed by a soft line-break are no longer twice spoken.
-	When only the contents of a cell in a table should be spoken when it is set to reach a new line in a table, now only the cell content of the focused cell is spoken and not the whole line.
-	Cursor positioning on a space in page layout of Word 2010 has been corrected.
-	When spelling, now also a hyphen will be spoken.
-	Within Word 2003 now under “Format / Character” the options of underlining is correctly presented.
-	If continuous reading is started, the percentual progress does not start with 0% anymore. Instead it starts from the particular percentage representing the current position within the document in proportion to  the whole document.
-	In case of rapid typing and opening a Word menu/sub-menu/dialog using hotkeys, COBRA will no longer hang itself up within the Word screen but will present the actual situation.
-	When performing a search (Ctrl+F) the result / the result position is being presented/ spoken when Winword 2003 is closed, opened again and a search is started.

New in Microsoft Outlook:

-	It’s now possible to use/make more hot folders. 
·	"0+six, Ctrl+5" opens a dialog in which in its edit field any name for a hot folder can be entered (the predefined path can also be used as a name).
·	"0+six, 5" opens the list with the available hot folders (choose the folder and Enter opens the respective folder).
·	„0+six, Shift+1“ jumps directly to the first hot folder and 2, 3 and 4 to the according definition in the list.
-	The entries in the hot folder list can be deleted with the "Delete" button.
-	Reliability of speech output from a word that has been recognized as a misspelled word by the spell checker has been improved. 
-	The Outlook-Script function "Save current folder as starting folder for search to folders with unread items" (0+six, Ctrl+7) fixes the starting folder in which with the previous script function "Folder list with unread items" was recursively searched to folders with unread items and these as usual presents in a list. This means that when you open the upper tree of a set of folders, go into it, and define this as starting folder, instead of earlier, only the folders below this starting folder are searched for unread items.
-	In addition in the list with folders with unread items now the respective path to the respective folder is presented and now with the command “Speak path in the list with unread folders on/off” it can be set whether aside of the folder names themselves also the path must be outspoken or not.

New in Microsoft Excel:

-	When deleting cell content the Braille display is now showing correct content.
-	The presentation of text in the edit field of the search dialog is now correct.
-	Focused cell is now presented with attributes (if switched on) on the Braille display dependably. 
-	Content of the status line is refreshed in Auto filter function.
-	Cursor tracking reliable when creating/modifying a comment.
-	In Excel 2003 the option button „Superscript“ in “Data/Sorting” is now presented correctly/spoken correctly.
-	In Excel 2007/2010 now the information about and foreground colour and background colour of the active cell is presented accordingly. Therefore certain formats can now be simply gathered.
-	When entering functions, now helpful informations are presented in speech and Braille. If you for example enter the first letter of a formula, a list with proposals is presented in which you can move up and down using the arrow keys. With Tab-key you can accept a proposal. Now you have the formula with the parameters to be stated both in speech and Braille. If you now state the single parameters for the formula, you will get the respective next ones presented. No doubt that you will have benefit from this feature!

Braille:

-	It is no longer necessary for Handy Tech Braille displays that they are activated with an extra REG-file (these are now immediately after installation at your disposal).
-	ALVA Braille display support has been substantially extended. Now the following ALVA’s are supported:
·	BC6x
·	ABT 3..X
·	Delphi
·	Satellite
-	The new BAUM SuperVario2 is supported (HID, USB, Bluetooth).
-	Support for Freedom Scientific Focus und PACMate implemented.
-	Papenmeier Braillex EL 66s is supported.
-	In case the drivers for ALVA, HandyTech or Freedom Scientific devices are being de-activated through their respective REG-files (which are located in the installation folder of the BrailleServer under “Common files”) then these respective devices will not be presented anymore within the Control panel of the BrailleServer from the list with available devices under “Add device”.   
-	Improved stability when connected through Bluetooth (we recommend using Microsoft Bluetooth Stack).
-	Configuration completed of Audiodata BM devices.
-	New Grade II-modes added for German and some other languages.
-	During Grade II activation the behaviour of the Grade II-cursor can be set individually via COBRA menu (Braille/Basic settings).
-	When uninstalling the BrailleServer the COBRA settings within the Support directory are not deleted anymore.
-	The BAUM VarioPro roller bars can be de-activated via COBRA menu.

Speech output:

-	Implementation of French speech synthesizer Eloquence. 
-	Implementation of possibility to use and maintain a global, individual phonetic dictionary. 
·	To reach via COBRA menu „Speech / Dictionary“. 
·	Calling the phonetic dictionary with the word at the cursor/navigation pointer via command „COBRA key+I" or "0+8, plus", whereas the word at the cursor/navigation pointer will already be pre-entered according to the language version used. Only the pronunciation has to be individually adjusted. Followed by clicking „Add“ and „Save“.
·	Storage location: in Support directory at "SpeechServer\V30\Dict\Main\Dictxxxx.Dat" (this way also after a new installation of the SpeechServer and/or an update of the SpeechServer all individual changes to a phonetic dictionary remain stored).
-	Implementation of Russian speech synthesizer "MyMouse Speaking Mouse".

Miscellaneous:

-	If the language version of the COBRA menu is set to English, then there will not be an error message anymore when opening "Extras / Sounds". 
-	The shortcut "Ctrl+Esc" that originates from MSAA is not displayed anymore at the Start button.
-	When the graphics driver of COBRA could not installed correctly, an according message at COBRA start-up will be given.
-	Script for Windows calculator.
-	Problems when installing DVBViewer are solved.
-	Significantly improved support for tree elements in DVBViewer.
-	Screen texts of information dialogues are now outspoken reliably and not aborted anymore.
-	Improvement of keyboard echo when hitting Backspace and Del-key.
-	Upon returning from the security desktop to the user desktop, the keyboard echo is now functioning.
-	Setting "Cursor speaker mode: Spell in phonetic alphabet" is now saved correctly.
-	Improved support during creation of slides in PowerPoint 2007/2010.
-	At Task change (Alt+Tab) out of COBRA Explorer, the next task from the list of applications is presented correctly again.
-	Correction of presentation of spaces of the decoration of entry fields in Line mode.
-	Tracking of groups in Explorer of Windows 7 corrected.
-	Cursor tracking in HTML-editors has been corrected if the cursor is positioned behind the last character.
-	Improvement of cursor tracking in HTML-editors when typing fast.
-	Problems with selections in HTML-mails solved.
-	Further scripts for Lotus Notes Professional (tracking of tiling). 
-	Access to Java Access Bridge enabled from all levels of user account control.
-	When a dump is created the quick message "Dump!" is presented in speech as well as in Braille.
-	In Windows XP the log-in screen is now presented by COBRA when the  system
-	is re-activated during the use of a screensaver.
-	Problems caused by cursor positioning below the scrollbar (e.g. Phase 5) are solved.
-	Checkboxes of the synchronisation options in ActiveSync 4.5 are now correctly presented in speech and Braille.
-	Statuschange of the checkboxes of the synchronisation options in Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 are now correctly presented.
-	Previously (manually) applied COBRA links are now reliably recognized and deleted by Setup-Programme.
-	In the COBRA menu in Extras/Options there is the check box "Load COBRA through Autostart" where the Autostart-behaviour of COBRA for an individually logged-in user can be stored.
-	As standard with each COBRA start through the new Update functionality it is checked whether COBRA is up to date. For that reason the following informations from your PC are sent to our server:
	1. actual version number of COBRA
 	2. language version to which your COBRA is set
	3. the code from your  COBRA license file
	If you prefer not to use this automatic Update functionality it can be
	switched off in COBRA menu in Extras/Options and then at all times perform
	this action in Help/"search for Updates".
-	New command to dismiss settings temporarily.
	- A first-time press of Cobra+Escape will dismiss the settings - in case any are present - for the 	actual application. A second time pressing Cobra+Escape will de-activate global settings and a 	third time pressing Cobra+Escape will re-activate the original settings again. This way it is very 	easy to check whether a certain setting might have an undesired result without the necessity for 	switching back to permanent default settings.
-	New version of International TTS (4.5.1) which will be automatically updated during COBRA Setup. Additionally the Setup of the actual International TTS can be found in  the directory "Tools/ITTS" of the actual COBRA installation directory.
-	Empty folders in Explorer of Windows 7 are now recognized and presented as "empty".
-	In Explorer of Windows 7 the number of selected objects is now presented, as far as in "View" the status bar is switched on.
-	COBRA Explorer is not automatically started anymore when in Windows Live Mail a message is opened in plain text.
-	In Windows Live Mail the elements in the dialog "Layout" are now correctly recognized and presented.
-	In Windows XP the log-in screen is now presented by COBRA when the system is re-activated during the use of a screensaver.
-	Scripts for "WISO mein Geld 2010".
-	Scripts for focus tracking in Dragon Naturally Speaking.
-	iTunes 10 is optimally supported.
-	Thunderbird 3.1.6 is supported.
-	In Skype the Status of Contacts is indicated.
-	D6 key on BAUM Braille display type DM80plus is now Shift+Tab and D7 key is now Tab.

-	Implementation of new commands; just one stroke of a key is sufficient to enter quickly into relevant COBRA/Windows directories.
0+Asterix, Ctrl+1 = open COBRA dump directory of the actual user
0+Asterix, Ctrl+2 = open COBRA user settings directory
0+Asterix, Ctrl+3 = open COBRA application settings directory
0+Asterix, Ctrl+4 = open COBRA programme directory
	0+Asterix, Ctrl+5 = open BAUM common programme directory
0+Asterix, Ctrl+7 = open Windows directory
0+Asterix, Ctrl+8 = open All users settings directory
0+Asterix, Ctrl+9 = open Windows application settings directory
-	Whenever COBRA-logging is active (0+Asterix, plus) aside of the usual command (0+Asterix, 1) in order to create a dump, now with the new command (0+Asterix, comma) also a dump can be created and the afterwards popping-up dialog confirmed with "OK" and for this dump  relevant files automatically zipped, Windows Explorer opened and the  zip-archive with the dump informations in it is already focused upon.

BAUM Retec AG / November 2010