[JAWS-Users] comments on JAWS-Users] New Avast Free 5.0 not accessible with Jaws.

[Shane Hecker]

First, let me say I did check out the new avast and it does have some 
significant problems. This led to me uninstalling and going with mse. Avast 
is not totally inaccessible, but some important dialog boxes are. You can 
use the mouse and navigate most of the dialog boxes in avast. This is a far 
cry from previous versions where you could use tab and shift tab, but it is 
still doable. What caused me to go forward with the uninstall are the 
dialogs that pop up when, for example, you disable the protection through 
the context menu. These are totally inaccessible. I had to guess where the 
buttons were. So yes, it is inaccessible in some key parts. But is it 
totally unusable? The answer is if you know how to use the mouse (jaws 
cursor) then no. Part of the problem is that jaws thinks every button is a 
dialog box. Hope this helps someone.

Shane 


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