microsoft antispyware accessibility

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All.

Sorry for the OT post. Microsoft is coming out with a free new AntiSpyware

product detection/removal tool which is now in beta 1. It is / will be the best

antispyware utility created. I downloaded the beta and it is 100% inaccessible.

I was baffled by this since microsoft is so big on accessibility. Since this was

so important, I emailed freedom scientific and asked them to contact the

accessibility rep at microsoft. damery wrote me back and said / asked me to

get involved as much as possible since the more people that give feedback, the

better chance we have of getting accessibility into the program.

With this utility being so necessary, it has to be accessible. Bare in mind,

this will be the best spyware utility made, you can read over its project specks

later on.

I would ask that each of you get involved and forward this onto any mailing list

that is for the blind and ask folks to get involved.

We need to go to the microsoft website and submit a comment asking them to

improve the accessibility of the program.

Read these instructions below on how to submit a comment. I have outlined

exactly how to do it so read them over prior to trying to do it. First, here is

a link you can follow to submit a comment to them. Keep reading past it though

for exact instructions on how to submit the comment:

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/feedback.aspx

When the page appears, Read until you come to the text, not a link, but the text

Microsoft Products: (you can start at the top of the page and do a screen find

for the text " microsoft products " and land right on it.

Below that line of text is a combo box, set it to Suggesting Product

Improvements and tab one time to the go button and press enter on it.

The next page has a form you can fill out and submit to them. Start by getting

into the combo box for country, tab once to the comment text box and type in a

comment to them. I suggest something like this (copy/paste if you wish):

Hello.

I am a blind computer user using a screen reader. I have tried your microsoft

AntiSpyware application that is in beta 1 and it is inaccessible to me. I cannot

use it. I would ask that you improve the accessibility of this program since it

is so essential for us to have access to. Microsoft is committed to

accessibility and I am asking that you contact the development team of this

application and improve the accessibility of it. It isn't fair that we don't

have access to such an important security application.

After you paste in the above text, or type your own comment, tab once to the

email box, type in your email address, then tab once to the next button and

press enter. Your comment will be posted to microsoft.

If enough of us submit this request to them, we will have a necessary, and

accessible, anti spyware tool that will be the best on the market.

If you do want to check out the inaccessibility of the beta 1 version, or read

up on its features, go to this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd\

-dbf62eda9671 & DisplayLang=en

Regards,