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Re: Technical explanation on how Flash interupts screen readers

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 15, 2010 8:15AM


Deborah,
That is a overgeneralization that is simply not accurate. The experience for keyboard only users is not even across all user agent, that is accurate to say, but to state that keyboard users can't escape Flash content without any type of clarifying information is just wrong.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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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