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Re: Flash and accessibility

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Dec 22, 2008 6:30PM

On 22/12/08 18:10, Dean Hamack wrote:

> 2. Set the wmode parameter of your Flash movie to transparent. Someone
> pointed out earlier that if you do that, Screenreaders can't find the Flash
> movie. But they will have no problem picking up the HTML menu.

That doesn't follow, unfortunately. If the Flash movie replaces the HTML
menu then there is no HTML menu for them to pick up; there's just an
inaccessible Flash object.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis