Greetings, I'm encountering another problem with accessibility or the lack there of. Mcafee upgraded their secure web gateway software to version 7 probably about a year ago. We're very slow to upgrade critical systems here so we've been working with 6 for that time. Version 7 is Java based so dredding the worst I have been in no hurry to move onto the upgrade project any time soon. Unfortunately however, as part of a green IT policy this service needs to be virtualized so sticking with version 6 is no longer viable and my desprit attempts at prolonging the inevitable cant continue indefinitly. To say I'm screwed is now an under statement. This version 7 is completely inaccessible. Even with the Java access bridge installed Jaws simply can not navigate around the screens. I know that speaking with Mcafee wouldn't make a blind bit of difference if you excuse the punn. There's nothing FreedomScientific can do about it either because they rely on the Java access bridge and in turn, the Java access bridge relies on developers. This is a very bad time to be pushing responsibilities to other people. My team is now down from three people to two. One of the guys are leaving and although they have promised the fill the vacancy I seriously doubt that will happen. I have been given a lot more responsibilities for systems that I wanted to be more involved with such as the SAN and virtualization. I'm really struggling with the advanced administration of VSphere at the moment. With some scripting I was hoping that I'd be able to get around some of the problems I'm having with that application but I really cant afford to have both problems at the same time. I'm starting to become convinced that with todays accessibility chalanges and the lack of improvement in screen reading technologies such as Jaws, Window Eyes and every other screen reader out there being a blind system administrator is just not a viable long term possibility. Moving to an alternative web gateway application is not an option. There's no way they'd ever consider it and there is so much red tape here that it would take a year for the project to be approved, tested and implemented. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie