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Re: Testing a flash movie

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 15, 2006 9:20AM

> Does varying WMODE make *all* of the content of the Flash
> movie invisible to the screen reader and if so why?
> WMODE relates to making the background of Flash movies
> transparent (enabling layering of SWFs), so how does it turn
> off the access to the screen reader? Does it interfere with the OSM?

The Flash player doesn't send any information to MSAA in this situation.
This is a shortcoming that we will hopefully address but related to the
difficulties of the player sending MSAA info when displaying in a
windowless mode.

AWK