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Re: flash satay firefox bug

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 23, 2005 7:49AM

> Yes, it is cheating somehow. But as long as browsers simply do not
> support the specs, one has to be tricky.
> We don't produce websites for the specs but for people. It's more
> important to provide accessibility and usability as well than
> following rules that possibly get your visitors stuck somewhere in a
> flash object.

If accessibility is a concern, the satay method is a problem, since at
least in JAWS (but not with Window-Eyes) a flash movie embedded this
way renders the movie completely inaccessible. This isn't an issue for
decorative Flash, but if there is content in the SWF it is best to use
a different embedding method.

AWK

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