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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 9, 2009 11:55AM

Al,
What parts do you want to see happen automatically?
- Adding equivalents for images?
- Adding captions?
- Adding audio description?
- Creating beautiful animated characters?

The beauty of this example is that while slick and highly functional, it demonstrates the effective use of a fairly small number of techniques that apply not only to Flash but to HTML also.

There are a few items that are unique to Flash, including controlling the reading order and controlling the addition/deletion of objects from the reading order. To answer your question, I can envision making the authoring tool provide better supports to accomplish these tasks, but there will always be the need for developers to understand accessibility so they can handle it properly.

We do make products that are not so open-ended as the Flash authoring tool, that provide accessibility support but do not require (or provide means to) change the accessibility support. These are very specific applications with a narrower focus, so they can handle more accessibility by default.

If you have suggestions, I'm happy to take a look.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

From: "Andrew Kirkpatrick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >

> Glad you liked it. Thea Eaton from a company called Doodledoo in Texas
> created it in conjunction with Knowbility and did a great job.
>> http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/tutorial/

Out of curiosity, do you you envision a future Flash release that would have
the brains to do much of this automatically? I would guess that a lot of
Flash authors would not invest the time - especially in a more complex
application.

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Al Sparber - PVII
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