[gui-talk] Accessible Alternative to MSE

[Gerald Levy]

My understanding about Avast is that the current version is not very 
accessible, and that it is difficult to impossible to uninstall it without 
sighted assistance.

Gerald


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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Accessible Alternative to MSE


> hello,
> avast has rewritten most of it's antivirus
> and they have an accessibility team
> they  are beta testing the rewritten  antivirus
> if anyone could test the beta and provide feedback to them   maybe they 
> could fix the accessibility glitches in avast
> On 10/11/2013 3:21 PM, Gerald Levy wrote:
>> Recently, Microsoft created an uproar when it admitted that Microsoft 
>> Security Essentials was not up to snuff and recommended that users switch 
>> to a third-party anti-virus program for better protection against malware 
>> threats.  But feedback on other lists suggests that none of the other 
>> free anti-virus programs -AVG, Avast or Avira-is especially screen reader 
>> friendly, and in their most recent versions, they are apparently 
>> inaccessible and thus unusable altogether.  And some of the paid 
>> anti-virus programs aren't much better.  Some of them either have 
>> inaccessible interfaces or else require sighted assistance to uninstall 
>> or remove or require solving an image captcha to complete the purchase 
>> process that is not solvbable with Webvisum.  So has anyone found an 
>> anti-virus program, preferabley free,  that is just as accessible and 
>> easy to use as MSE and that is not a hassle to remove in the event that 
>> it doesn't work out? Thanks.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
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