RE: [WSG] long description and its implementation

[Steve Green]

I checked www.salford.ac.uk with JAWS 7.10 and 9.0, and neither of them see
either the linked image or the Flash content.

Steve

 

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Sent: 04 February 2008 13:27
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Subject: RE: [WSG] long description and its implementation

Quoting Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Screen readers do not read Flash content that is embedded using 
> unobtrusive techniques such as SWFObject. I expect they would read the 
> content that is supposed to be replaced, but I have never encountered 
> an implementation where there was any alternate content. Does anyone 
> have an example I can check?

Try www.salford.ac.uk - there's a big flash movie at the start of the
content area, which is put in place via UFO. w/out flash/js, there's just a
big linked image there instead.

P
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