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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Mar 15, 2010 1:39PM

The Flash CS4 Professional authoring tool is not generally accessible to users without any sight, in part related to the timeline-based workflow and visual stage. However, developers interested in working with Flash can use Flex Builder (an Eclipse-based IDE) effectively to create SWF files or they can use a text-editor to write actionscript files that can be compiled into SWF with the CS4 Pro authoring tool's compiler.

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AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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I am sure you will find good information here:

http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/best_practices.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/accessible_animated_preso.html


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> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:24 -0500
> Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Flash Authoring Tool
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> Hello,
> Is there any information about the accessibility of Adobe Flash CS4
> Professional, or other Flash authoring tools? Much is made about Flash
> accessibility when it comes to the end Flash components. But what about the
> authoring tools? What can a screen reader user do with current tools?
> Thanks.
>
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> Travis Roth
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