Re: BLINK WITH JAWS

  • From: "cheryll" <cheryll@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 03:19:35 -0700

Hello,
Is Blink an anti virus?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: BLINK WITH JAWS


this was indeed the personal version, the one which is free in North
America for a year, perhaps for longer depending on the whim of the
company.  thanks to the person who brought it to my attention.

Dean


At 11:26 PM 5/14/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Dean,
>this was the personal version you checked out?
>Thanks for your effort. I might give it a go then.
>Max.
>on 16:07 15/05/2007, Dean Martineau said:
>>I'm not sure I'm ready to agree with the conclusion that Blink is so
>>hard to use with JAWS.  It isn't effortless, but in part that
>>situation is due to the fact that Blink is a very powerful program
>>and I don't understand a lot of hat it does.  The review I read said
>>that it isn't a good program for novices because it offers much more
>>power than other security programs aimed at t his market.
>>
>>while in the program's main window, hitting ctrl+o brings up the
>>options dialog.  that dialog has pretty good keyboard navigation.  I
>>could look  at the various schedules the program offers and change
>>them all via keyboard.  In the main window, the menu bar doesn't
>>speak, but one can just hit alt, then down arrow to read the first
>>menu, and can repeat this, simply hitting right arrow one or more
>>times before starting the down arrows, to examine all the menu
>>options.  Some tool bar buttons contain text labels.  the manual is a
>>large pdf which converted effortlessly to text using TextPal.
>>
>>the program isn't perfectly accessible, but my present impression is
>>that anybody who can figure out its technical complexity will
>>probably be able to use most of it.  I have yet to see what it will
>>do while scanning, or when it detects an invasion.
>>
>>Dean
>>
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