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

Sat May 24 20:59:40 CDT 2008

I wasn't trying to gloat about my own abilities by suggesting to just
try the program. I was simply offering a suggestion and perhaps
stating my own opinion. No one says that we all have to agree on
everything, but could we be a bit more accepting of friendly
suggestions? If you don't agree with it, fine, but also don't shoot it
down either. I realize that with email communication, we're all just
reading the words and that there's no benefit of hearing the person
say them.

I'm not a "proud" person about this trying programs to see if they
work. However, I also don't want to remain seated and question if
something's accessible each time I want to try it. Does this make me
better than you? Nope; its just my own perspective and opinion.

Just my thoughts (its okay to disagree, :)
Wayne

On 5/24/08, albert griffith <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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