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Blind computer users struck by a very unusual Trojan attack

January 22, 2008 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

We have just received a disturbing report from Vanja Svajcer on the SophosLabs security blog indicating that a recently distributed “unofficial” build of Freedom Scientific’s JAWS 9.0 screen reader making the rounds on various blindness related mailing lists contains dangerous code that disables the use of JAWS and most other screen readers. In his article,… Finish Reading Blind computer users struck by a very unusual Trojan attack

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Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) Version 0.5 Released

June 6, 2007 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

The NVDA developers have released version 0.5 of this open source screen reader. It is now available on the project’s download page. Check out the release notes for this new version. Changes since r425: Added Czech language files thanks to Tomas Valusek. Added Swedish language files thanks to Daniel Innala. NVDA now has a built-in… Finish Reading Nonvisual Desktop Access (NVDA) Version 0.5 Released