The reason Flash is accessible on Windows is that Macromedia chose to
expose certain types of flash content via internet explorer, which in
turn exposed it to the screen reader. It was a joint effort initially
between Macromedia and GW Micro, as there are so many hooks involved
for accessibility in Windows that, in many cases, are undocumented
that they brought in a screen reader developer. I'd hesitate to really
call flash accessible though, as it's very basic and has to be coded
in such a way that the information gets exposed on the part of the web
developer. Inaccessible flash simply yields loads of unlabeled buttons
in the best of cases, and nothing at all in the worst.
Also it should be noted that Flash is accessible only in internet
explorer, not in Firefox as Adobe hasn't seen fit to implement that
either. Honestly, Adobe haven't done much if anything on Flash
accessibility.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:52, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
interesting. Why is flash somewhat accessible in windows?
On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:38 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
It must be clearly understood that flash is adobe's game and must
be fixed
by adobe. Apple provides all the code base to make apps accessible
so till
adobe wakes up and smells the coffee, we won't have accessible flash.
