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From: Steve Vosloo
Date: Sep 3, 2002 8:04AM

This is a hot topic -- strictly speaking you should. But in a real world
where there isn't always the budget or time to do this, and considering
your circumstances, I think a separate text description is perfectly
fine.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birdsell, John [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: 03 September 2002 04:44 PM
> To: ' <EMAIL REMOVED> '
> Subject: RE: flash - alternatives
>
>
> Are there any good tutorial or instructions on how to
> synchronize a text file and a flash clip? I also have read
> that they should be synchronized, but understood that to be
> for sound or a true "movie" clip that showed for example
> people doing something. This is a seamless presentation of
> text. Before you had to.... Now you can..... any images are
> pure eye candy and not directly related to the text. Does
> this still have to be synchronized? -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Luoma [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: flash - alternatives
>
>
> Birdsell, John wrote:
> > I have a flash clip that I am providing alternative text for,.
> > question
> > is does it matter whether the link for the text comes
> before or after
> > the flash content. My inclination is to put the link to
> the text BEFORE
> > the flash content. The flash content is text only No
> sound. I describe
> > it as a flash version of a power point presentation.
>
> My (extremely limited) understanding is that it should be
> synchronized,
> neither before nor after.
>
http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm#(b)
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-synchronize-equivalen
ts

TjL

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