[gui-talk] Updating Adobe Flash Player

[David Andrews]

I have forwarded your message to several influencial people within 
the NFB.  Adobe, in my opinion is one of the worst main-line 
companies out there, in my opinion.  In addition to the kinds of 
things you mention below, many of their tools for producing PDF's do 
a terrible job at producing accessible documents.

Dave

At 04:59 PM 12/5/2013, you wrote:

>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