Adshield is indeed still available from jfwlite and can be used.
since I switched to firefox for my default browser, i have not used
Adshield with Ie in a while. However, when i last installed and used
it, it did still help reduce popups as it always had. Adshield can be
used parallel to ie's popup blocker.
I am wondering, though, if your sister might not be better off
trying out nvda for a screenreader parallel to her jaws 7. And
remember that if she has jaws 7.0, she can download and install the
update to jaws 7.1 from fs's website for free. I would very
muchrecommend doing at least that and I am also recommending trying out nvda.
nvda has really been coming off age of late and the beta of the
upcoming nvda 2012.1 release has more capability and functionality
than nvda ever did. the learning curve for nvda should be manageable
for a jaws user as many of the keystrokes are similar. I am not
necessarily suggesting your sister should abandon jaws altogether but
with such an old jaws version, I think it would be good if she could
run nvda alongside it. It would allow her, for example, to use
Firefox as a browser and also, if she wanted to, upgrade to ie 8 as
nvda works well and reliable with both browsers.
since it lacks a video intercept, nvda is fully portable on the one
hand but also does not work with some programs that jaws does work
with. Also nvda's mouse emulation is not as good as that of jaws's
for the same reason. nvda does have ways to get around the screen
that jaws does not but its object navigation concept takes some
getting used to and I am still not very competent at it even though I
am generally quite computer savvy.
For many computer users, though, who do their regular bit of
chatting, surfing, email, playing music and a great many more things
on the computer, nvda is quite sufficient. I just think if your
sister learned to use it next to her version of jaws, she could only
gain and be moreflexible.
nvda can be gotten from
www.nvda-project.org
and is completely free though they always appreciate donations.
hth
Doris
At 10:22 AM 2/25/2012 -0600, you wrote:
shshshs let's not tell my sister ok?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bharat" <bharat...@yahoo.com>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] ADD Shield?
adshield is still available from
jfwlite.com
however, I don't really think, it would be of much of a use because this
software, seems to have been abandoned.
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From: "Trish" <pzoell...@tx.rr.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:27 PM
To: "users jaws list" <JAWS-Users-List@jaws-users.com>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] ADD Shield?
> This might be a long shot asking if this is still available, but my sister
> is still running XP with IE/7 and I think she's only using Jaws 7.
> So, she calls me last night, and is frustrated with the pop-ups, I got her
> to turn off the pop-up blocker and she was wanting that program she had
> before her computer crashed this, ADD Shield. I told her I don't think
> it's
> available any longer, but just thought I would ask here.
> I remember it was once on the old Jaws lite site, is that still around?
> I told her she better get inside window's update and hide that IE update
> thingy, or one of these times it's gonna install without her knowing, and
> I
> guess Jaws 7 wouldn't work for IE 8.
> This would be a big and I mean big tragedy if she couldn't use her beloved
> Google,lol
>
> Appreciate any light shed on this subject..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trish
>
>
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