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

From: "Katherine moss" <plymouthroamer285@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:59:49 -0400

So no wonder they don't listen to me now, and I take it that they will
continue to not?

From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E.J. Zufelt
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:38 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessibility calls, but some questions from the mods of the
forum in which they are being made

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.

HTH,

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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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