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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: Jon Brundage
Date: Nov 6, 2009 2:55PM

Hi Andrew,

Your post states "Here's one example of Flash being authored with
accessibility in mind."

Were you meaning to include a link or an example .fla file? Or was that a
reference to another post?

Thanks,

Jon


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kirkpatrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible
expandablemenu?


> 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
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
>
>