Hi Everyone. I've been working on some posts about what we've learned while building Yahoo! Tech (http://tech.yahoo.com ). We tried to make it as accessible as possible and made a number of adjustments after doing user testing with screen readers.
I just posted a piece about how we got our front-page media space to work with a screen reader. I had thought the U.F.O. javascript would be accessible. But screen readers ignored the content when we had to give the movie a transparent window mode. We tried to modify the script to use methods other than visibility:hidden, but we couldn't bypass the Flash movie's dominance over the hidden content. We solved this by creating a secondary div for the screen readers. Find out more on my blog: http://www.last-child.com/make-flash-accessible-to-screen-readers-in-transpa rent-window-mode/ I've got a couple more stories that will be published soon on the Yahoo! User Interface blog in the near future. Ted Drake Front-end Engineer Yahoo! Tech http://tech.yahoo.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
