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From: Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 14, 2010 8:09AM

Hello everyone

I need to convince a public media web site in my native country to
stop, or reduce, their usage of Flash, since the Flash movies on their
web site make it nearly impossible for me to read it by now, the Jaws
scursor jumps all over the page and I cannot click on the links I plan
to click on.
To clarify, the web site is www.mbl.is (it is all in Icelandic).
Is there a good explanation somehwere on what type of Flash interups
screen reading and how that happens?
I believe the Flash objects send out events that the screen reader
interpetes as page refreshes and the cursor tries to jump to that
area, but I may not be understanding this process correctly.
If anyone can point me to a resource on this that would be very helpful.
Thank you
-Birkir