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Re: Flash, absolute positioning and font resizing

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From: Michael_Jordan@hmco.com
Date: Feb 8, 2006 8:30AM

With accessible Flash, you shouldn't update a button's Accessibility
property name as your animation loops. That will cause the screen-reader
to keep updating the page, which is very frustrating to the user. It's
better to label the container for the looping animation with a single
Accessibility property name, and hide the child objects of the animation
using _accProps.forceSimple = true or by unchecking "Make Child Objects
Accessible" in the Accessibility Properties panel.

Cheers!

Michael A. Jordan
Houghton Mifflin Company
School Division/Instructional Technology




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<quote who="ben morrison">
> On 2/8/06, Stephane Deschamps < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> and thanks for the great daily input :)
>>
>> There's a Flash animation that cycles endlessly in a sidebar. The
>> trouble
>> with JAWS is that once it gets inside the animation it gets trapped
>> inside, with no way to get out easily, it seems.
>
> There is some info on the webaim site which should be usefull:
>
> http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/4

... so much easier indeed :)

Thanks a lot!

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Stephane Deschamps
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