[gui-talk] Updating Adobe Flash Player

[Baracco, Andrew W]

As has been said many times in the past few days, you can't use Ninite
to update Adobe Flash. Apparently, Adobe wants you to download directly
from them.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bud
Schwab
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 8:29 PM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Updating Adobe Flash Player

Thanks for the info on Ninite.  I did get it and download it with no
problem.  The concept sounds great.  I did install it but don't know
what to do next.  How do I get it to know what I have that needs
updating?  , it looks great if I can only figure out what to do next.
Thanks.

Bud
At 04:00 PM 12/8/2013, you wrote:
>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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