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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 6, 2009 2:40PM

I'm not sure what you mean when you write "when text is presented as an image in Flash". If there is text in the Flash content it will be available to windows-based screen readers unless the developer explicitly hides it or embeds the Flash content using an unsupported window mode.

Yes, there are caveats that developers need know about but there's a fair bit of ground between that and saying "of course, Flash format cannot be read in any screen reader".

Here's one example of Flash being authored with accessibility in mind.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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