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From: Paul Collins
Date: Feb 13, 2006 5:45AM

Hello all,

I am currently looking at having a photo library built using Flash. All efforts would be undertaken to make the Flash accessible, using captions for all photos, tabindex, labels, etc.

My question is, if the major Screen Readers can pick up Flash if programmed correctly, does this mean my site is still accessible for Priority 2 guidelines? If not, priority 1? The applicable guidelines state "until user agents allow", which to me would mean the fact that they can pick up Flash these days would mean using it would be OK?

Please let me know your thoughts.

1.3 Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation.
1.4 For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.

Thanks,
Paul