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From: COHEN, ED
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 8:00AM
Subject: JAWS and FlashPaper
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Hello,

My agency will soon begin to use Contribute for remote content
management. At the same time we are testing FlashPaper as a possible
substitute for PDF's which are used sparingly.

While the original Word document was not formatted using Styles, a PDF
version of the document was successfully read by JAWS. The FlashPaper
version however, is not read at all by my 4.5 version of JAWS.

Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Here is the FlashPaper
file.

Vigo County Redesignation plan
<http://www.in.gov/idem/contrib_home/vigo_redes.swf>;

Thank you very much

Ed Cohen

Web Accessibility Manager

Indiana Department of Environmental Management

From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 8:40AM
Subject: Re: JAWS and FlashPaper
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Thats a good question. I asked a similar one after being at the launch
of Macromedia Studio 8 in Dublin, Ireland recently but it was relating
to the application Contribute. Here's what Andrew Kirkpatrick said about
exporting from MS Word

>Contribute will not add semantics when there is none already, but if you
>specify headings, links, table headings, tables, lists, etc., Contribute
>will create the appropriate HTML elements.
>
Does Flash Paper handle MS Docs in a similar fashion?

HTH

Joshue O Connor

Web Accessibility Consultant

**Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)* *
National Council for the Blind of Ireland

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COHEN, ED wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My agency will soon begin to use Contribute for remote content
> management. At the same time we are testing FlashPaper as a possible
> substitute for PDFs which are used sparingly.
>
> While the original Word document was not formatted using Styles, a PDF
> version of the document was successfully read by JAWS. The FlashPaper
> version however, is not read at all by my 4.5 version of JAWS.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Here is the FlashPaper file.
>
> Vigo County Redesignation plan
> <http://www.in.gov/idem/contrib_home/vigo_redes.swf>;
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Ed Cohen
>
> Web Accessibility Manager
>
> Indiana Department of Environmental Management
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 9:20AM
Subject: RE: JAWS and FlashPaper
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FlashPaper will read in JAWS - can you send me the document separately
or post a link - attachments don't seem to work on this list.

For FlashPaper info, take a look at:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flashpaper/

We also offer JAWS scripts for Flashpaper to improve the reading
experience. JAWS can read FlashPaper without them, but they enhance the
reading experience, for example by adding ctrl+page up/down as keyboard
shortcuts to skip ahead or back a page.

Hope this helps,
AWK

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> Joshue O Connor
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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] JAWS and FlashPaper
>
> Thats a good question. I asked a similar one after being at
> the launch of Macromedia Studio 8 in Dublin, Ireland recently
> but it was relating to the application Contribute. Here's
> what Andrew Kirkpatrick said about exporting from MS Word
>
> >Contribute will not add semantics when there is none already, but if
> >you specify headings, links, table headings, tables, lists, etc.,
> >Contribute will create the appropriate HTML elements.
> >
> Does Flash Paper handle MS Docs in a similar fashion?
>
> HTH
>
> Joshue O Connor
>
> Web Accessibility Consultant
>
> **Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)* * National Council
> for the Blind of Ireland
>
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = +353 1 8821915
>
>
> COHEN, ED wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > My agency will soon begin to use Contribute for remote content
> > management. At the same time we are testing FlashPaper as a
> possible
> > substitute for PDF's which are used sparingly.
> >
> > While the original Word document was not formatted using
> Styles, a PDF
> > version of the document was successfully read by JAWS. The
> FlashPaper
> > version however, is not read at all by my 4.5 version of JAWS.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Here is the
> FlashPaper file.
> >
> > Vigo County Redesignation plan
> > <http://www.in.gov/idem/contrib_home/vigo_redes.swf>;
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > Ed Cohen
> >
> > Web Accessibility Manager
> >
> > Indiana Department of Environmental Management
> >
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> >-
> >
> >
> >
> Address list
> >messages to = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 12:00PM
Subject: RE: JAWS and FlashPaper
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> The current version of JAWS is 7. Perhaps certain older
> versions are not supported. This page at Macromedia seems to
> claim support:
> http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/fl
> ashpaper/
>
> I would contact Macromedia and Freedom Scientific to get an
> accurate answer.

FlashPaper is flash, and any screen reader that is capable of reading
Flash can read FlashPaper.

JAWS has difficulty with Flash when the swf is viewed in IE directly.
If you make an HTML page that references the FlashPaper and then test
with JAWS, you'll have a better experience.

AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Principal Accessibility Engineer, Macromedia
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From: Al Sparber
Date: Tue, Oct 25 2005 6:00PM
Subject: Re: JAWS and FlashPaper
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COHEN, ED wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts? Here is the
> FlashPaper
> file.
>
> Vigo County Redesignation plan
> <http://www.in.gov/idem/contrib_home/vigo_redes.swf>;

The current version of JAWS is 7. Perhaps certain older versions are
not supported. This page at Macromedia seems to claim support:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flashpaper/

I would contact Macromedia and Freedom Scientific to get an accurate
answer.

Al Sparber
PVII
http://www.projectseven.com

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