Hello everyone,
some of you may remember me as blind man who fights for screen reader accessibility of antivirus programs, even I was here a long time ago.
My post will be longer than expected, but I hope that devs will read.
First of all, congratulations on new version.
Installed free version and installation went fine. Because I am advanced user, I set all shields to ask me before any action taken.
No automation, I had to decide.
Especially HIPS.
I challenged "virus found" dialogue with one keygen, false positive of course, and decided to clear it.
But popup starting to apeer again, again and again, with information that process search protocol host.exe requesting the file, even its already removed by Avast! realtime protection.
When I ckclicked "block" instead "delete", popups disapeered.
System was stable and everything worked fine, until I got to update tab on Avasts settings window.
There, updates said that need to apply some critical update and requested restart. I pressed "restart now", and, boom. My system crashed, with Win RE presented to me.
Fortunately, I am using latest Insider build with talking Win RE and recovered, reimaged my PC in a minute without sighted assistance.
Dont know why its happened, but I am now living without Avast. Waiting next build.
Now, I wish to talk about Avasts accessibility to screne reader programs.
I am using JAWS.
The best Avast time for blind community was when developer Omar Yonatan cooperated and worked with me, polished and tuned UI, to fit our needs.
After him, everything going only down, and down, with critical progress.
Its so sad to see, especially because mostly all antiviruses are not accessible with screen readers fair enough.
When I opened Avast main window, I got nothing. Tab, arrow keys, enter, do nothing. Navigation with keyboard is impossible.
But when I clicked casually somewhere with mous, screen reader presented me UI, looks as webpage shown in Chromeum based browser.
And, its so nice for us to operate, but its not apeered instantly.
Every time I click some option, I am losing focus and need to click somewhere with mous to get working window again.
I am ready to cooperate if you like to help. Testing is not a problem.
Settings screen is accessible like always was. Only shields tab not accessible completely, but I can work there.
Avast safe zone browser, working great, because its Chromeum based browser.
