Hi All.
Thanks to roger for tipping me off about this! Avast 5.0.594 now seems
to be fully accessible with screen readers. progress bars are now
spoken, as well as all of the interface. scans are now read out in
realtime as they should be, providing the user with information you'd
probably have had to use the jaws curser for. pressing tab and shift tab
seems to be sufficient to navigate, in other words using standard
navigational keystrokes gets you to the information you want to reach.
the only flaw i've noticed is the settings dialogue, for screen reader
users its read out correctly, but the tabs aren't immediately
noticeable. you have to press space on the settings button, then tab,
then shift tab until jaws doesn't say anything when shift tab is pressed
e.g tab, gaming mode. shift tab, gaming mode settings. shift tab. when
jaws says shift tab only, scrole up twice with the arrows and this
should get you to where the tabs are, from there you have access to over
10 different tabs to finely customize avast settings including the look,
sounds, scans, etc.
feeling brave? most of you will already have the opportunity to update
via the program interface its self, rightclick your avast icon, click on
update, then program update. but for those of you that have not got it
installed or don't want to use the system tray method, here's a download
link to the free anti virus program. it is not necissary to install the
chrome web browser, so click no when you are asked to install.
http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/52604cb5db4419bc3e3d1f6a072972b8/4c2a81e1/100006474/software/ANTIVIRUS/setup_av_free_eng.exe
Thanks all for reading.
Mo.
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