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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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