Re: accessibility calls, but some questions from the mods of the forum in which they are being made

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:38:09 -0400

The only thing that I can think of is that they * may * be trying to protect 
their application by using non-standard UI controls that are more difficult to 
automate (also more difficult to use with a screen-reader).  This is security 
through obfuscation.

This is what online gambling sites do, so that players cannot write 
applications to automate the UI and play tables automatically.

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On 2010-08-28, at 10:23 PM, Katherine moss wrote:

> Hey folks,
> I am currently discussing the topic of accessibility with the moderators of 
> the Bleeping Computer forum.  I made the coment that I don’t find 
> MalwareBites anti-Malware as accessible as it could be and suggesting that 
> they talk to the developers about it and ask them to possibly think about 
> making the controls more standardized.  One particular mod had the question 
> of whether using standard windows controls versus custom ones would cause the 
> staff at MBAM to have to do extra work to protect the program from malware.  
> Does using windows controls equal a malware attack vector?  I’m currently 
> learning to program in C#, and the book I’m reading says nothing about that.  
> Some input, explanation?  Many thanks,
>  
> Katherine
> 
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