I think you're confusing the Mac with the iPhone. Jobs did not want flash on the iPhone, and the iPhone consequently doesn't have it. He probably doesn't want flash on the Mac either, I kind of agree with him given how badly it's misused, but the fact is the plugin is there and Adobe has proven outright hostile to any requests for accessibility on any platform other than Windows. Not surprising really, seeing as how most of the accessibility stuff was done by Macromedia before Adobe acquired it, and Adobe doesn't exactly have a great reputation when it comes to accessibility in general. I've never received a hostile reply from anyone at Apple concerning flash accessibility, though there's not much Apple can do given that they do not have access to the source of the flash plugin short of making their own version of it and that's not likely to happen.
On Mar 9, 2009, at 20:40, louie wrote: > > The way I heard it on Leo Laporte podcast was Jobs did not want flash. > > On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> >> Unfortunately, Adobe does not currently expose flash elements in a >> way that >> voice over can use, and last I heard, they didn't think there was >> enough mac >> users to spend resources on this. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:55 PM >> Subject: flash and VO >> >> >>> >>> One of the things that I have noticed since I started using VO is >>> that >>> it doesn't recognize flash players. Does anyone know if there is any >>> plan to make VO accessible with flash? It is really frustrating >>> when >>> I can't activate a movie on a website because it's in a flash >>> player. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Alena >>> Blog: http://blind-gal.blogspot.com >>>> >>> >> >> >>> > > louie > [email protected] > > > > > > The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
