Please disregard the below message. I started to write it, but people had responded before I finished it and I thought it was scrapped. However, in restarting mail, the system seemed to send two messages that I thought were deleted, but apparently were not and were somehow in my outbox.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:27 PM, John Panarese <jpanar...@mac-access.net> wrote: > I don’t know what you consider accessibility with Flash, but it is actually > Adobe’s problem. They were gong to try to make Flash much more accessible at > one point, but I think they abandoned that option. At this point, as the > move to HTML5 is continuing, I doubt you are going to see anything happen > with Flash accessibility. > > As far as I know, no screen reader handles flash well at all. Sometimes, > if the developer is using the later versions of Flash with Text tags, you > might find some success, but with JFW, Window-Eyes, System Access and > VoiceOver, I have found Flash to be nothing less than a waste of time. Apple > had good reason to not support it on iDevices. > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email, j...@macfortheblind.com > Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com > > APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > > On Sep 27, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Andy Collins <a...@recreation.plus.com> wrote: > >> 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. 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