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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Jun 7, 2010 10:57AM

Hi Courtney,

Webcredible at http://www.webcredible.co.uk have the best and most reliable
cross-platform/cross-browser tabbing on their home page, with regards to
inline flash within (x)html documents. There is no documentation on it
however, but I am personally working on something myself having taken
their's apart. The big bonus, is that it is AS2 compliant which means it
degrades very well unlike other methods such as this one at
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/04/firefox_focus_and_actual_links_
1.html which requires AS3

Steven




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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Ritz, Courtney L.
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Sent: 07 June 2010 16:05
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Subject: [WebAIM] Trapped in Flash

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