Hello, mike,
You have certainly given me a great deal of food for thought, here. Ok, I am using avg free edition and hitman pro, for anti-virus protection, but I have been having issues, some relating to skype, but if I might be permitted to stray, slightly off topic, I think you will see the possible reason why I stray. When I first came on the ordinary computer scene, in 2002, I was using windows 98, 2nd edition, then upgraded in 2006 to windows xp. All this time, everything worked well, although I wasn't on skype, but it was. Ever since I had a new computer in 2011, with windows 7 and Microsoft office, 2003 in 2013, I have had some strange things happening, mainly with outlook. When I'm writing or replying to an email, I will suddenly find that I haven't written it where I thought and only discovered this, when pressing the enter key with no success. Microsoft office word seems to be encroaching into outlook and "hijacking" my writing and it is such a frustrating thing. I can't argue with your hi-tech jaws friend, with his explanation about the anti-virus software seeing screen-readers as a potential threat. I am also wondering, if this fashion for joining everything together, could also be contributing to the problem. If you go into internet explorer, you will be presented with a whole list of applications, like msm, skype hotmail and outlook, all on the same place. No wonder there are problems. I am only basing my thoughts on my own experiences, so I am throwing this open for all members to make comments and if they find I'm right, suggestions as to how this can be combated. One thing which could be done is to ask anti-virus developers to allow the screen readers to be viewed as "friendly "and not a threat, Andy. _____ From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike DeZinno via Skypeenglish Sent: 06 February 2015 16:04 To: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Subject: [Skypeenglish] another place to consider for Skype problems Good morning Skypites: Im just putting this out there as a possible explanation for some of the random nature of the Skype issues I have been reading about in recent weeks. I see some of you having certain issues and others challenging them responding back that others arent having those issues so the answer is not what someone else just shared here in the forum. Here is what I just learned yesterday which has me wondering if we might not be looking in the wrong place for answers. Im a JAWS user currently working with JAWS 16. About two months ago I had many of the problems we have seen discussed here in the group and many of you were kind enough to offer help and I was able to go backward to a prior version of Skype and JAWS scripts and since that time all has been well until recently. Over the last few weeks Jaws has been acting weird with Skype and a few other older applications that I have been using for years. The problems in nature are intermittent and because of that have been difficult to nail down for a definite cause. Yesterday a high level JAWS tech user told me that recent upgrades in some of the anti virus software could be the cause of some of our issues because of the way screen readers work it sees a screen reader as a potential possible threat. Im currently using Avast and he did say that Avast is for sure on that list, so now I need your help again. What are you all using for virus protection that isnt messing up your screen reader and thats also blind friendly to use? Thanks for any and all help, Mike, from SC
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