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Re: Technical explanation on how Flash interupts screen readers

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 15, 2010 6:57AM

Birkir,
I believe that the issue with that site is how the Flash content is created, not necessarily that it is in Flash. The authors could easily hide the motion from JAWS and other screen readers, but haven't. I'm not sure why JAWS is jumping all over the page for you though. You mention the JAWS Cursor - do you mean the JAWS cursor or the Virtual PC Cursor?

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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