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Re: Testing a flash movie

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Nov 15, 2006 9:30AM

> 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.

Thanks for that Andrew.

Josh

Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> 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?
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> 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
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