[gui-talk] Updating Adobe Flash Player

[Jude DaShiell]

It's never a good idea to use the adobe website to update software.  
Your better option is to use http://www.ninite.com/ and that will 
download an appropriate installer for your hardware and software.  You 
run the installer and ninite.com installs the adobe products for you 
without all that extra garbage.  That's how ninite.com installs 
everything that's available on ninite.com and if you buy the pro 
version, ninite.com will check the manufacturer's sites for you and let 
you know when it's time to install the next updates.  I'm surprised 
ninite.com isn't known about and used more widely on those other blind 
tech lists.  I don't even want to write about adobe reader with jaws 10, 
but that ninite.com site is well worth a visit.

On Sun, 8 Dec 2013, David Andrews wrote:

> 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
> 
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