I went to Microsoft's free ante virus program, and was using Avast until I tried to open an email program. Now, before Avast was updated, it worked fine. The minute the updated that was made in November of last year, things went south on me. Nothing would read on the screen, and Jaws wasn't responding to any commands. The Jaws curser wasn't working correctly, and nothing was readable in my inbox. So I went back to Microsoft security essentials. On my windows 8.1 machine, I'm using the built-in windows defender program, and haven't had any issues with the program.
Best: James From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike DeZinno via Skypeenglish Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 8:04 AM To: screen readers' access to skype and its interface. Subject: [Skypeenglish] another place to consider for Skype problems Good morning Skypites: I'm 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 aren't 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. I'm 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. I'm 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 isn't messing up your screen reader and that's also blind friendly to use? Thanks for any and all help, Mike, from SC
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