I believe that the labeling of the "buttons in Flash players on the web are left up to the web developer. They must provide something like an Alt tag when creating the object. Otherwise it seems to get assigned a sequential number, such as "3" or "4" and so on. I am not sure if this is assigned by Flash, MSAA, or JAWS when reading the MSAA information passed by the Flash object. Some sites do a reasonable job in this regard, like SuperNovaTube.com. This French site even tries to assign hotkeys. But, unfortunately, most sites I have found have spent no effort in this area. Web sites have no excuse for this except ignorance. Major sites such as Google Video, FoxNews, and YouTube certainly have the resources to do this seemingly simple matter. Adobe claims to provide the capability to provide accessibility in this product on their web site, but they must not stress it enough or provide accessibility in their examples. Even on their web site, the document describing accessibility was written in 2005 by Macromedia (before Flash was purchased by Adobe). This may be the next big stumbling block for the blind and visually impaired, similar to the original web and images in HTML! A major accessibility awareness campaign needs to address this rapidly growing product. Flash is being used for everything on the web these days! Even the site I use to test my DSL speed, Speakeasy.com, heavily use Flash. This is not just a video playback issue, which many consider not to be useful to the blind anyway! I think even Freedom Scientific has some culpability too. Activating these "buttons", once their function has been determined, seems to be unreliable unless you root the JAWS cursor to the PC cursor before pressing the space bar. I have spent a lot of time recently researching this problem, finding these offensive sites, and providing email feedback to the site developers. Perhaps a few emails is not enough, and they will not pay attention until a few class action lawsuits are pursued. Perhaps a tool like Webvisum could help in the future to label these sites and share with the community. But I don't think this function works within Flash objects right now.
Don Marang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 5:28 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] New Flash Player > Even after one installs this, I have an awful time getting to the buttons > to > have it play. Are there any quick JAWS keystrokes to get to the play > button? I receive many things that require flash player but admit I get > awfully frustrated trying to get the darn thing to play. I much preferred > Window's medial player and mp3 attachments where one just had to click the > file and it played. Any suggestions on this would be much appreciated. > > thanks > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lino Morales > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] New Flash Player > > > Trisha, > Go to: > www.adobe .com > and there you'll find Adobe Flash Player. HTH. > Lino Morales and Louie Lab > Email and Windows Live Messenger: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For Blind Christian Men, visit: > http://morales-family.lljfm.net/mailman/listinfo/blindmen4christ_morales-fam > ily > to subscribe to Blind Men For Christ. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patricia Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "BPC" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:14 PM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] New Flash Player > > > I want to listen to a funny link that was sent to me on a web page, but I > go > there and I get that thing...my flash plaer is out of date or something > like > that. > I've been down this road before and when Norton got uninstalled all seemed > ok. I got a message telling the latest flash player is available or > installed or something like that, I can't recall the exact wording it's > been > a few months ago. > So guess I need a new one again sigh, how many times do they update this > anyways... > But also, I had a devil of a time getting it back before I got rid of > Norton > and I just dread going through all that again. Is there a simple process > or > maybe a direct link for this thing for users with screen readers?? > > Thanks, > > Patricia > > PS David or Rick put it up on your web site by any chance?? > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
