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

[albert griffith]

The scripts for Add Aware six greatly improved its accessibility.  Certain
aspects of the program's functionality just weren't accessible with the jaws
curser.  I agree scripts aren't needed with every program and there's de
finitely a need for folks to learn to use all the cursers at their disposal
but we need to remember jaws is kind of one big macro or set of sc scripts. 

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org
[mailto:gui-talk-bounces+albertgriffith=sbcglobal.net at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:14 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
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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