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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Jul 6, 2009 12:00AM

Good evening,

A quick point about Flash accessibility. For screen-reader users of
the Mac and Linux Flash is not accessible. I believe that this holds
true for some Windows screen-readers as well.

HTH,
Everett

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On 6-Jul-09, at 1:19 AM, Vivek Gaikwad wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> ADOBE has provided a list of accessible components with Flash. These
> components works perfectly fine with JAWS.
>
>
>
> You can get the list of accessible components in flash here:
> http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/UsingFlash/help.html?content=WSd60f23110
> 762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7c27.html
>
>
>
> Flash components make the flash movie inaccessible by trapping the
> focus is
> NOT true. If we follow best practices for accessible flash, we can
> certainly
> make flash accessible.
>
>
>
> We need to implement the accessibility right from the beginning of the
> development. If we try to implement it once the development is done,
> it's
> almost a 50% rework on the project as the developer has not kept
> accessibility in mind while working on the project which leads to a
> lot of
> unwanted controls/text in the movie. A normal user won't even come
> to know
> what and how is used to make the flash movie look so good. But when
> it comes
> to a screen reader, there is no escape; the screen reader will catch
> all the
> unwanted things in the movie and present it to the end user.
>
>
>
> To avoid this, the developers must be educated to use the screen
> reader and
> other testing tools in order to do the basic testing at their end.
>
>
>
> Making flash accessible is not a difficult thing but it requires
> logic and
> patience.
>
>
>
> Have look at the blog to get an idea of flash and accessibility.
> Myself
> being a developer, you can get a developers point of view on flash and
> accessibility. :)
>
> http://barrierbreak.com/blog/?cat=15
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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