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From: Kevin H. Spruill
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2005 8:56AM
Subject: Re: flash
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>1. Is the resizing only to fit the size of the current
>graphical window in FLASH or can the user say they want bigger
>text in the current size window?
>2. Can users restyle the foreground and background colors of
>the text rendering in FLASH?
>Thanks,
>Jon
Jon,
The answers to your questions above are yes, and yes. Font resizing is available either through implementation within the context sensitive ("right click") menu depending on how the movie is exported - or more often through the inclusion of font resizing controls within the movie interface itself. The ability to change the visual appearance of the movie is merely a matter of including controls to allow the user to do so, again within the movie interface.
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2005 10:18AM
Subject: Re: Re: flash
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But it is up to the author to create these style controls and
to write the code to inact the changes, right?
The flash player can only change text rendering to high
contrast (white on black) if the author included this function
within their code, it is not an inherit feature of FLASH that
can be applied to any random flash movie.
Jon
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>> >1. Is the resizing only to fit the size of the
>> current
>> >graphical window in FLASH or can the user say they
>> want bigger
>> >text in the current size window?
>>
>> >2. Can users restyle the foreground and background
>> colors of
>> >the text rendering in FLASH?
>>
>> >Thanks,
>> >Jon
>>
>> Jon,
>>
>> The answers to your questions above are yes, and
>> yes. Font resizing is available either through
>> implementation within the context sensitive ("right
>> click") menu depending on how the movie is exported
>> - or more often through the inclusion of font
>> resizing controls within the movie interface itself.
>> The ability to change the visual appearance of the
>> movie is merely a matter of including controls to
>> allow the user to do so, again within the movie
>> interface.
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>> FAA Section 508 Technical Support
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From: Kevin H. Spruill
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2005 12:09PM
Subject: Re: Re: flash
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>But it is up to the author to create these style controls and
>to write the code to inact the changes, right?
>The flash player can only change text rendering to high
>contrast (white on black) if the author included this function
>within their code, it is not an inherit feature of FLASH that
>can be applied to any random flash movie.
Jon, while there are a variety of ways to accomplish contrast change... the answer is yes - currently this is something that the developer would have to code into the flash movie... you can't just change the interface contrast as you can in some browsers. Though, I vaguely recall this popping up as a discussed enhancement for future players awhile back. Hard to say where that may be or may go with Adobe's recent purchase of Macromedia.
This is another reason why alternate formats of the content are almost always advisable.
Kevin
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From: Sofia Celic
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2005 6:13PM
Subject: Re: Re: flash
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>1. Is the resizing only to fit the size of the current
>>graphical window in FLASH or can the user say they want bigger
>>text in the current size window?
>>Font resizing is available either through implementation within the
context sensitive
>>("right click") menu depending on how the movie is exported - or more
often through
>>the inclusion of font resizing controls within the movie interface itself.
Also note the possibility of providing access to the zoom feature of Flash
Player through HTML links in the parent HTML document. Have a look at
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/Monash2005/js_zoom.html for a
basic example of controlling zoom and panning via the keyboard. Note that
the technique is dependent on Javascript.
Sofia
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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Thu, Apr 21 2005 6:24PM
Subject: Re: Re: flash
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>>> >1. Is the resizing only to fit the size of the current
>>> >graphical window in FLASH or can the user say they want bigger
>>> >text in the current size window?
>
>>
>
>>> >Font resizing is available either through implementation within the
>
>> context sensitive
>
>>> >("right click") menu depending on how the movie is exported - or more
>
>> often through
>
>>> >the inclusion of font resizing controls within the movie interface itself.
>
>>
>> Also note the possibility of providing access to the zoom feature of Flash
>> Player through HTML links in the parent HTML document. Have a look at
>> http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/Monash2005/js_zoom.html for a
>> basic example of controlling zoom and panning via the keyboard. Note that
>> the technique is dependent on Javascript.
The really scary thing is that I came across a lot of designers so far
who prefer surpressing the "ugly right click menu", as it allegedly
poses a security problem with Flash applications.
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