Hi Darragh,
Out of interest can you recommend such a site, that way can do a "view
source" to see how they implement it.
Regards
David Howe
Darragh writes:
> There are ways of ensuring that Flash is accessible but I actually think that this can be acomplished at the moment by just following the best practise guidelines when writing. Again, I'm not all that great with Flash. I know it's a pain, and I hate when I come across it but there are sites that I've had to use who have it done quite well.
>> One site who really don't have it done well at all is bebo. They have a stupid flash box on some sites that play music, drowning out the speech from my screen reader and with no way that I can find to shut it up. For some reason, their controls don't seem to be labeled with any text alternatives so when I tab or arrow around them all I hear is button.
>> I also don't think that all the buttons are in the tab order so there are a few, such as the most important one, "stop" that don't allow me to give them focus using the keyboard at all.
>>> Again, I think the people at Front End are the best people to talk about in relation to this. They have had a lot of discussions with a lot of flash developers to find the best way of making flash accessible.
>> I'm glad you've taken some kind of an interest in it though. Pity more don't do the same.
>> Darragh
> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com>
>> Sent: 22 February 2007 17:12
>> To: Liam McDermott <theirishmole at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ILUG] testers
>>
>> Sure, that's being rectified. On visually impaired screen readers, how
>> would they cope with flash ? - is there a way to link sensibly so they
>> can play sound.
>> /Kev
>>>> Liam McDermott wrote:
>> > As far as the site goes, it lets me pardon or punish as much as i
>> > want, ie there is no check to see if i have done it already.
>> >
>> > On 2/22/07, Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi Folks,
>> >> We're in beta mode with a new site, wondering if there was anyone
>> >> there risky enough to test. You can admit to using windows, this would
>> >> probably be unpardonable.
>> >> Any feedback welcome.
>> >> http://www.venials.com>> >>
>> >> /Kevin
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