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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Nov 20, 2009 11:10AM

Thank you thank you thank you! I knew you guys could set me straight! Yea!

Carin
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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] insight about weird flash


Your culprit: s1.addParam("wmode","transparent");

They are using a windowless mode and don't even need to here. If they change this to
s1.addParam("wmode","window");

then you can do some further testing.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Adobe Systems

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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Carin Headrick
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:53 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] insight about weird flash

Hi. Well, I figure I'm here, I might as well jump right into picking brains.

I was asked to check a site over for accessibility issues. Oh me oh my, they have some work to do. The headings, ug, the graphics, ug, the strange labeling of links, ug ug ug, but my biggest issue is how come JAWS skips right over the play buttons for the movies? The page is http://www.edmedia.tv/Default.php?pID=16

I can't find a single play button on the page, although they appear to be bleedin' obvious to anyone with eyeballs. Apparently System Access-users can also find them. I thought it was due to them coded in shockwave flash, but then I saw the following page: http://www.paulspond.com/index.php?entry=21
and I can see those fine.

Thank you in advance for any help at all.

Carin