[gui-talk] Updating Adobe Flash Player

[Gerald Levy]

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few days on a few blind tech-related mailing lists about the difficulty of updating Adobe Flash Player without also installing unwanted software such as Google Chrome and Tool Bar as well as McAfee Security Scan Plus.  A lot of people have been complaining that the check boxes on the Flash Player download page to unselect the installation of Google Chrome or McAfee Security Scan Plus, which are checked by default are either totally inaccessible  or uncheckable , regardless of which screen reader is used.  Other people have reported that the Adobe web site is so inaccessible, that they can't install Flash Player at all without sighted help.  This is not an insignificant problem, in view of the fact that updates to Flash Player are released pretty frequently and need to be installed to patch security flaws in this highly-vulnerable program, which is used by many web sites, including the popular Youtube.com.  Can anything be done to force Adobe to make the download page for Flash Player more accessible for us blind computer users.  Must we be forced to install unwanted software because there is no accessible means of unselecting it?  Is there anything the NFB can do , such as taking legal action against Adobe to force it to make its Flash Player web site more blind friendly?  Thanks for any feedback.

Gerald