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From: Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Date: Jun 7, 2010 10:03AM

Greetings,

I'm dealing with two instances where developers have chosen to include Flash content on their pages. In one instance, there doesn't seem to be any controls within the Flash, just text; in the other instance, there are controls. In both instances, once I tab into the Flash, I can't navigate out; also, both pages contain HTML content as well as the Flash.
I'm currently using IE7 and JAWS 11.0.756. Is getting trapped within the Flash movie still unavoidable without the developers(s) rendering the movies themselves invisible, or is there another fix that I can suggest for making it possible to navigate the page Flash and all without getting stuck? In one instance, I know that the developer has provided links to HTML versions of the text content that could be accessed through the Flash, so at least the content is available that way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Courtney