avast! 8 totally brakes accessibility

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1

hello,
in avast 7 avast could be made accessible by switching off the self defense modjule
but unfortunatly in avast 8 the accessibility is totally broken
the gui is impossible to navigate with the nvda screen reader even when self defense is switched off
I would really appriciate it if someone could reimplement accessibility

2

Try a repair. Control Panel>Uninstall>double click “avast”>click “repair”>reboot :slight_smile:

3

hi,
well did the repair still no difference

4

What OS?
And what do you mean by “accessible”? ???

5

hi,
on windows 8 64 bit
and by accessible I mean usable with a screen reader
the gui is totoally impossible to navigate atm

6

Turns out a similar solution that worked in Avast! 7 (found here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=98429.0) does in fact work in Avast! 8 with some minor adjustments. Here’s what I did:

  1. Open Avast
  2. Press Alt+E to get to Settings
  3. Press Down Arrow 20 times to get to Troubleshooting
  4. Tab 6 times to “Enable Avast! Self-defence Module”
  5. Turn off Jaws
  6. Hit Space to check the checkbox to disable the Self-defence Module
  7. Press Alt+O for OK
  8. Wait 10 seconds, then Tab once and then Space. This is to confirm that you want to allow these changes.
  9. Now re-enable Jaws and the screen should read. You may or may not need to close/reopen Avast!

To re-enable the self-defence module, follow the same steps but skip step 8.

Note: If you alt+Tab out of Avast at any point, you will likely have to close/reopen the interface to get it to read. Weird I know, but that works for me.

This was using Windows 7 64 bit, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work on Win 8.

Hope this helps!