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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Feb 19, 2013 1:52PM

I did a rather thorough review of a number of publishing tools, including
Issu, TapEdition and a number of others. There wasn't one of them that
could spell accessibility, let alone make it actually happen. They are
neither usable nor accessible, but simply images of the pages with hotspots
for links. They would be better off with a PDF file.


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Patrick H. Lauke
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> On 19/02/2013 16:14, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> > My gut feeling is that since it's flash based, it's not.
>
> Not tested the site in question, but just wanted to mention that, as a
> general rule, flash-based does not automatically mean inaccessible. Over
> the years Adobe's worked quite hard on making it possible to create
> flash content that works perfectly fine with AT like screenreaders.
>
> > I also can't find
> > any mention of accessibility on Issuu's website and the only place where
> I
> > can find Issuu employees engaging on the issue they appear to believe
> that
> > being able to zoom is good enough (even for blind users!)
>
> Of course, developers that create the flash content need to be aware of
> how to make it actually accessible, and this kind of response doesn't
> seem to suggest that.
>
> P
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