[gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available

Sat May 24 18:23:40 CDT 2008

All right. I've downloaded and installed AVG Free Edition Version 8. I had 
to play with the Jaws cursor a bit in order to make sure I checked or 
unchecked the options offered to me in various dialogues of the install 
wizard, but I got it done okay.

and except for a couple of quirky things, like when I launch the interface 
some sort of context menu pops up and blocks my access to the interface so 
that I have to alt tab once, it seems to navigate okay in most important 
ways.

But as you may be aware already, I have one issue I can't fix without some 
advice. My email is showing as if it has an attachment, when of course it 
doesn't. Past experience tells me that all I need to do is turn off the 
certification message for outgoing email. In Version 7.5, that stopped the 
attachment symbol from appearing on my emails when they arrived at their 
destination.

So I looked at the help documentation, found out where to go for this, 
opened tools/advanced options/Appearance  and with a lot of fumbling around 
with the Jaws cursor, because you have to do some tricky things to get a sub 
menu to speak, I thought I unchecked the box by certification. In fact, when 
I opened the menu again and checked with the Jaws cursor (it won't appear to 
the PC cursor or the tab key) it did say it was now unchecked. But when I 
send out an email, Jaws still sees an attachment symbol, which I'm sure 
everyone on the list is seeing too.

Anybody have this particular issue solved, yet? I've done my best and can't 
seem to manage this. Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available

Well, okay for you. But if I asked around and enough people whose opinions I
respected said they'd tried it and it really couldn't be managed with Jaws,
I wouldn't likely waste my time downloading and installing it and going
through agonies just to realize that I couldn't access the controls. That
doesn't seem stupid or lazy to me. Does everyone have to reinvent the wheel
for themselves? But that's just in my humble opinion, of course.

And believe me, AdAware `1.06, without scripts, doesn't allow you to get
around the controls and do things without feeling like a drunk coming home
in the dark and fumbling around for the light switch and tripping over the
furniture. Now that is how I feel when I'm down to the Jaws cursor level of
operating an interface. I don't care to mess with that if I don't have to.
It's not a point of pride for me, as it is for some people on the lists,
although I'm glad they feel good about their competency and everything.

Well, we shall see. Something or other.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available

Just a friendly suggestion here, but you could always try it and see.
If it doesn't work, just uninstall it. Besides, what you consider
"usable/accessible" might differ from another person's definition.
Yes, JAWS scripts can make a difference withs some programs, but
sometimes, they're not needed.

Jmt,
Wayne

On 5/24/08, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Okay. But that sounds really weird. They released a new AdAware around
> January 2008, or so I seem to remember, and called it AdAware 2007? And
> now
> they're finally calling this by the current year? Okay. But my question
> is,
> is this release Jaws friendly, or does it need to be bolstered by the help
> of some generous script writer in the Jaws community before we Jaws users
> will be able to use it? And meantime, will it remain possible for us users
> of AdAware 1.06 or whatever it's called to keep downloading and installing
> update definition files ourselves?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available
>
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> Ad-Aware 2007 has been out for a few months now, this is the version of
> Ad-Aware that is inaccessible.  This version has now been superseded by
> Ad-Aware 2008 which was released this week.  I hope this helps.
>
> Regards Steve.
>
> From: Joel Deutsch jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>
> Steve,
>
> thanks for passing this on. But, as far as I know, it hasn't been that
> everyone's been waiting around for the new version of AdAware to be
> released. In fact, this notice confuses me because I thought it had
> already
> been released a couple of months ago but people like me, Jaws users,
> were
> told that the new version wasn't Jaws friendly, so we've been manually
> obtaining and installing our updates, which can't be gotten with the
> updater
> feature anymore now that the new version is in place.
>
> So first of all, I don't understand why the release of this version is
> news,
> when I thought it had been out for a couple of months, and second,
> whatever
> the truth of that is, can anyone say whether or not it's Jaws friendly
> out
> of the box, or maybe some script writer has provided scripts to tame it
> for
> Jaws use?
>
> Regards Steve
> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
> Windows Live Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
> Skype:  steve1963
>
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