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Re: Technical explanation on how Flash interupts screen readers

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From: deborah.kaplan
Date: Nov 15, 2010 8:03AM

Birkir wrote:

> I know that Flash, by itself, does not necessarily constitute
> accessibility issues.

Sure it does. The most accessible Flash in the world is still
something keyboard users can't escape without using the mouse.
The only way to avoid this is by hiding the Flash from the user
and replacing the controls with javascript/HTML, as Terrill
Thompson did with
<http://terrillthompson.com/tests/flash-yahoo3.html>;.

Until this is fixed, there is no such thing as truly accessible
Flash embedded in a web page.

-Deborah