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Re: what's up with the new inaccessible Flash installer?

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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 18, 2010 8:30AM

Agreed, I expected better from Adobe, and things have been very good
in the recent past.
I guess this was a very urgent release due to a security flaw in Flash
player, at lesat according to the BBC News web site, and perhaps
proper care was not taken with testing the installer, but I have the
same issues to report, using Jaws 11 on a Windows 7 machine.


On 6/18/10, Carin Headrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi. I booted up my computer, and got a request from Adobe Flash player to
> update. Ok then, sure will...if I could read more on the buttons than
> "button", "q button" and "i button." That's seriously all they said. I'll
> have to go to the website and install it that way because I can't navigate
> this installer.
>
> My big question is how did it get broken?
>
> Carin
>
>