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Re: Land mark roles on Mobile Web

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: May 10, 2011 11:42PM

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Jeevan Reddy
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> But consider the web page is made up of purely flash, or a flash
> application, then can we apply the landmark roles to the different sections
> of this flash page?

You cannot apply landmark roles to different components within a single flash
embed from the HTML side.

But you can use Flash's own accessibility features. See also:

http://webaim.org/techniques/flash/

http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html

As Paul Adams mentioned, making a mobile app dependent on Flash sounds
like a bad idea.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis