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From: Randi
Date: Apr 20, 2009 12:05PM

Yes, Voiceover has some catching up to do. But the fact that in every
new OS with Apple, Voiceover is included at no extra charge, and the
fact that out of the box, and Apple is accessible, sold me right off
the bat. ;) Didn't mean to deter from the Flash conversation. Now that
I know its most likely Voiceover and not Flash, I'll look out for
improvements from Apple.

On 4/20/09, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Randi,
>
> In my experience, VoiceOver doesn't work well at all with Flash & Flex. IMO,
> Adobe's done a great job of working toward improving Flash & Flex
> accessibility by providing support for MSAA. In the case of VoiceOver, I
> think more of the blame rests on Apple for not also supporting MSAA.
>
> For JAWS users, Adobe provides JAWS scripts at
> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flex/jaws.html which should help
> - provided of course the Flex app was created properly.
>
> Karl
>
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