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Re: mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Nov 10, 2009 5:45AM

Thing is I need eyesight to do it. :O)

I created it with Flash MX and with JAWS10.0 I actually find it
pretty accessible, probably as I remember the layout and know when to
hit enter to make things happen.

cheers

Geof

At 09:32 PM 11/9/2009, you wrote:
>There's no reason that that site couldn't be more accessible with a
>little effort. There are challenges around how to best represent
>some of the animations in that section, but the same issue needs to
>be dealt with for animation if provided in a complex animated gif or
>non-flash movie.
>
>Thanks,
>AWK
>
>Andrew Kirkpatrick
>
>Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>
>Adobe Systems
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>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Geof Collis
>Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:54 PM
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>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] mouseover/hover and keyboard accessible expandablemenu?
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>I'm wondering if Flash will ever be accessible to a screen reader,
>wehn I could see I was able to create things like this
>http://www.badeyes.com/flash/tower.html, it is not all functional but
>I'd sure like to be able to get back into Flash again. Try the
>animations section.
>
>cheers
>
>Geof
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