What would be great for 508 is to implement first class mechanisms for accessibility ... creating new components that are accessible (the Flash way) is a nightmare. On Jan 26, 2012 5:53 PM, "Michael Jordan" <mijor...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > On 1/26/12 1:54 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: David Francis Buhler [mailto:davidbuh...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:48 AM > >> To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: RE: Pushing Flex components thorough the GPU > >> > >> Windows, Jaws, jaws scripts, and IE. :) > >> On Jan 26, 2012 1:29 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> > >I'm not the expert, but one of our Adobe PPMC members is (Michael, are > >you out there?), but I believe we work with more than just Jaws and IE. > > > > > >Alex Harui > >Flex SDK Developer > >Adobe Systems Inc. > >Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > > > > That's correct, Alex. > > Screen reader support for the Flash Player is available on Windows in IE > and Firefox for swfs embedded with wmode="window." > > JAWS, Window-Eyes, and the open source NVDA screen readers can read Flash > content, but to date JAWS has the most comprehensive support for Flex. > This is because JAWS has scripts that work around limitations with the way > that the Flash Player is able to describe content through its > accessibility API. > > The Flash Player's accessibility support was implemented back in 2002, > around the time that the term "rich internet application" was coined. To > limit the performance impact of maintaining, updating, and communicating > role, state, and value information on a deep hierarchy of accessibility > objects, the decision was made to only expose one level of hierarchy and > allow an accessibility object like a list to maintain a single array of > children with no decedents. This is unlike the behavior of desktop > applications which are able to expose the full hierarchy of a tree, panel, > or data grid with nested children. JAWS scripts improve the way the screen > reader user interacts with more complex controls like the TreeView and > ComboBox in IE. > > > Michael Jordan | Accessibility Engineer | Adobe > > > > >
