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Re: Flash animation and accessibility on a particularwebpage.

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Nov 5, 2012 6:43PM

I don't think it does.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Birkir R. Gunnarsson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Flash animation and accessibility on a
particularwebpage.


> 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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