I always thoughtit had to do with the lack of security that Adobe Flash 
Player has. At least, that's what I've been told by my store here.

Take care,

Brenda

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Collins" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 2:07 PM
Subject: Apple's response to my enquiry about flash accessibility


Hi all -

In my frustration at not being able to listen to a sports stream, I 
contacted Apple accessibilty, below is there reply. It doesn't quite add up, 
as they say Adobe hasn't made flash accessible to screen readers, and yet 
JAWS for one does pretty much ok these days with it. Non the less, perhaps 
if lots of us folowed their sugestion of contacting Adobe, this time it 
might make a difference? -

Andy
  Hello,

Thank you for your email. Unfortunately there is an issue with the Flash 
component that makes it inaccessible to screen readers. Apple has reported 
this issue to Adobe over the years and in March of 2011 they announced plans 
to fix it, you can see their blog post in the link below:

http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html

Unfortunately, Adobe has not made the appropriate changes to Flash that make 
it screen reader compatible. We would encourage the you to contact Adobe and 
request that they implement the changes that will make Flash content 
accessible.

Apple Accessibility


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