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From: Rothschild, Joseph T. (CDC/OD/OWCD) (CTR)
Date: Jun 8, 2010 2:18PM

My experience is that often components and 3rd party add-ins are often
the cause of flash trapping focus. In terms of setting the wmode to
transparent, I've run into situations where that effectively makes the
flash movie "hidden" to accessibility tools.

Thanks,

Joe

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Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:05 AM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
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