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RE: Flash and keyboard navigation

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From: Steve Vosloo
Date: Oct 9, 2002 12:21AM

MM's official answer was:

"You suggest a perfectly reasonable workaround for this near-term
solution: provide a skip-Flash link ("Skip over Flash movie"). A
slightly better technique that we would endorse is re-publishing the
Flash movie as version 6, and simply turning off accessibility support
for the whole movie (uncheck "Make Movie Accessible" in the
Accessibility panel while nothing is selected on the Stage). This makes
the screen reader ignore the Flash content entirely."

As a last thought ...

"We hope that our next version of Flash will make enough improvements
that everyone will be able to make their content accessible without
undue effort."

As far as I know there is no way around this other than these 2 options.


Steve



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