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From: Geof Collis
Date: Apr 2, 2010 7:09AM

Hi Andrew

My mistake, it was not the comment that I was referring to, although
you've made an argument for it, I was referring to the title of the
article, it makes it sound as if things have turned a corner yet
there is still miles to go.

Of course Adobe is part of accessibility, I'd love to se Flash become
really accessible, remember I designed in it for 4 years and loved it. :O)

cheers

Geof



At 10:45 PM 4/1/2010, you wrote:
>Geof,
>I'd say that the comment in the article is what is not helpful, as
>it implied that Flash can not be accessible at all, full stop.
>
>The comment helps provide additional nuance to the picture - you
>can't say Flash is not accessible out of the box without knowing
>what the use of Flash is - some uses require more work to make
>accessible than others, just as is the case with HTML.
>
>How do you feel that this hurts "the accessibility movement"? Is
>Adobe not part of this movement?
>
>Thanks,
>AWK
>
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>Adobe Systems
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: [WebAIM] Flash accessibility
>
>Hi All
>
>While I find the title of this article at
>http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/31/f-visually-impaired-website-accessibility.html#socialcomments
>
>very simplistic and misleading ,I'm wondering if the comment that
>follows is very helpful to the accessibility movement:
>
>at 6:35 PM ET Actually since this interview happened, exciting news
>has been provided by Adobe. Exciting in the way that the horror
>stories of trying to
>make flash accessible is potentially over!.
>The idea during this interview was that flash out of the box per say
>is not accessible however with proper training, awareness and
>knowledge flash and
>images can be made accessible.
>Currently Adobe now has a flyplayback component in CS4.
>If you use flash to create a video player with the flvplayback
>component in cs4 it is accessible out of the box!
>http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/
>
>cheers
>
>Geof
>
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