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RE: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Jamie
Date: Apr 9, 2006 9:30PM

Thanks for you comments. I am collecting all the
comments for the web person of the site... if that
person decides to make it accessible.

I'm just learning flash, but not to develop a whole
website. I'm hoping to make a few Computer Based
Training Modules and I'd love to make a fun kids page
for sighted young kids to learn about blindness. (so
many plans, so little time.)

Way back when, I was disenfranchized - using a mac
with external disk running a freeware program, and
became interested in the any browers campagin (anyone
remember that), which was my first understanding of
accessiblity as I could only access the pages that
were set up for a text browers.

I fear that even if we could get a flash site totally
accessible, that we would be excluding folks that have
older stuff or were limited to libraries that may or
may not allow plug-ins. What has been your experience
with flash websites?

--- Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I've taken a look also, and the buttons are
> generally well labeled, but
> there are issues with the reading order of the
> content and the extra
> buttons found in the scroll bar for the content of
> the different
> sections are the unlabeled ones that Will is
> hearing. Also, the way the
> the links are provided in the links section doesn't
> result in them being
> accessible.
>
> All of these issues are relatively easily addressed.
> This site could
> (and should) be fixed without too much extra effort.
>
> AWK
>
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> >