Here's another thing I'll recommend, though I don't know whether it plays well 
with JAWS or not, I haven't had any time to experiment with it.

Any of us who download free software, even from reputable sites such as Adobe, 
etc., are finding that most vendors are now engaging in the loathsome (to me, 
anyway) practice of bundling other, often completely unassociated, software 
with their installation packages.  People have gotten into the habit of 
responding in the affirmative to most prompts and check boxes during installs 
and this is causing a lot of people to end up with a lot of toolbars, programs, 
etc., that they never had any desire to have.

Unchecky (direct setup download link here) is a package that "keeps watch" over 
dialog boxes as they pop up during installation monitoring for specific words 
and phrases associated with asking to install things other than what you're 
actually running the setup for.   It's not perfect, but it's very good, and it 
has the added advantage of presenting a button when it finds this stuff that 
lets you decline it just by pressing that button rather than having to deal 
with the checkboxes that are typically involved.

If anyone decides to give this a go please let me know how it behaves with 
JAWS.  It seems that most companies are getting much better about following 
coding conventions that make things far more accessibility friendly, but one 
never knows until the stuff is put to the test.

Brian

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