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Re: Proper way to hide content from a screen reader

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Nov 17, 2009 1:40PM


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

> Put the content in Adobe Air and it won't be seen by the screen reader.
> Ha ha. A joke only.
>
> And a timely joke at that - today we released the public beta preview of
> AIR 2.0 which introduces support for assistive technologies via MSAA. You
> can try it out at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air2.html.

Does this mean that Air components in CS5 (like Extension Manager) will
become usable and not violate basic UI conventions?

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