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Re: Flash animation and accessibility on a particular webpage.

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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Nov 5, 2012 3:21PM

Does anyone know how (or if) aria-hidden works with screen magnifiers?


On 11/5/12, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Is the purpose to hide it entirely?
>
> If so, and they are just images with no value, and if there are no active
> elements, you could put aria-hidden="true" on the container to hide it from
>
> screen readers. This may solve the refresh issue, but it would need to be
> tested to be certain.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 8:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Flash animation and accessibility on a particular
> webpage.
>
>
>> Sorry guys. The pressure and ill-informed complaints I received caused
>> me to act too soon. The problem is not Flash per se, in fact it
>> appears to be Javascript Carusels (two of them), on the front page,
>> that rotate headlines. This is something that we worked on in the
>> spring, but somehow got lost in software updates at that organization.
>> I believe there is plenty of literature on accessible carusels around,
>> Hans Hillon had a great one, Bryan as well I believe, but if anyone
>> has further suggestions, feel free to point out how best to hide these
>> from assistive technologies (most like using ARIA).
>> Thanks and sorry for a hastily written post, should not have gone out
>> to the list until I had a closer look.
>> -B
>>
>> On 11/5/12, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> I will never turn this into some sort of personal service request
>>> list, no worries, but I am faced with a particularly urgent problem,
>>> one that reflects the wider concern for Flash, animation and
>>> accessibility, a popular topic though not mentioned lately on this
>>> list, as far as I remember.
>>> The website
>>> www.ruv.is
>>> (the website of the Icelandic National Public Radio), seems to have
>>> just putting started a lot of Flash objects, pictures and ads on their
>>> page. At least my screen reading software loses focus all the time,
>>> jumps around, and I have gotten a deluge of complaints from our blind
>>> and VI users (this plays havoc with screen magnifiers as well), that
>>> the page has suddenly become completely inaccessible (funny since I
>>> have done a lot of work with them on ARIA accessibility, labelling
>>> buttons etc .. goes to show our work can be frustrating as well as
>>> fun.
>>> Just out of professional curiosity, could anyone check over the page
>>> for me to confirm that Flash is the issue, and if you have pointers to
>>> the latest Flash accessibility guides, could you please post. I point
>>> people to a very good WebAIM guide, though a few years old, that
>>> discusses how Flash is more accessible if it is set to Transparent,
>>> and it will subsequently be ignored by screen readers/magnifiers.
>>> Are there any updates to this, and are there ways to keep these Flash
>>> objects on the page for sighted users (well, for who I do not know,
>>> since these are not exactly popular with anyone), without messing up
>>> accessibility for visually impaired users? Or is the only snesible
>>> suggestion I can make to take these out altogether, at least the
>>> animation part? How would you handle this folks. Always a pleasure to
>>> follow discussions on this list and to be able to occasionally tap
>>> into the wealth of expertese here is simply an honor.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> -Birkir
>>>
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