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From: Ritz, Courtney L. (GSFC-7500)
Date: Jun 11, 2010 10:48AM

Hi all,

thanks for the suggestions.

I'm curious though, as to whether this whole keyboard trap issue with some Flash jobects is specific to JAWS, or common among screen readers in general, or what.
The answer to that may help me determine whether the pages could be considered 508 compliant as long as the Flash content is made available another way such as via HTML. I don't want to ding someone if the problem is screen reader specific and not a real 508 or general accessibility problem. Personally, becoming stuck in the Flash object and having to refresh the page decreases the page's accessibility. but that's just my two cents. (grins)

thanks and sorry for the ramble.

Courtney