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Re: iCaption2 Student Project to create people learnabout and create captions for Flash Videos

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Apr 21, 2009 12:55PM

I received a message from someone who is famiilar with Adobe technology and they said the problem was with the AIR 1.x technology for screen reader compatibility and not the Flex technology itself.

This does not fix the problem, but helps at least understand where the problem lies in the system.

Jon




---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:34:57 -0700
>From: Randi < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] iCaption2 Student Project to create people learnabout and create captions for Flash Videos
>To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>
>Hi John,
>
>I was going to check it out to look at the basic keyboard functions,
>but Voiceover couldn't interact with the page at all. I know you said
>that it isn't accessible, but soemthing about basic keyboard
>functions? If those things work with Jaws or Window Eyes, the page
>wasn't accessible with Voiceover. Just thought I'd add that little
>tidbit if it helps the students. I think its awesome that students are
>getting involved with accessibility.
>
>:) Randi
>
>On 4/20/09, Steve Robillard < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> My apologies to all for my previous message it was a combo of a reply that
>> my only suggestion would be to make the tool accessible and a tweet about a
>> web site that (compared having a baby and designing a website) got garbled
>> together. Again my apologies I meant no disrespect to anyone.
>>
>>