I stand corrected. Thanks. On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > 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 > > > > louie [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
