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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 22, 2005 7:37PM

A small heads-up to alert those (myself included) using the flash satay
method http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ of an annoying
variation of an old bug in firefox:

"The flash satay method has become a widely used technique for embedding
flash into valid XHTML documents. However, even current builds of
Mozilla Firefox (at the time of writing, version 1.0.4) seem to have a
problem which can have a serious impact on accessibility: flash content
embedded this way swallows the tab focus, making it impossible to
proceed beyond the movie when using keyboard navigation.

"Of course, the core issue of embedded flash stealing focus is not new,
but the fact that satay triggers this in Firefox - when Gecko based
browsers have, up to now, been known to simply skip flash movies when
tabbing, which was another issue in itself - is a novel and annoying
variation, particularly when flash is used purely for decorative effects
rather than functional page elements."

Check out the example page in firefox.

http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/76/

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Patrick H. Lauke
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