Agreed. The Apple accessibility APIs are documented and have been around for some time. The ball is in Adobe's court to implement them in their plugin. There was a bug opened on this back in April 2008 but to vote you have to get past a captcha, so the issue was self defeating.
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-38 A revealing bit is this thread from June 2008 on this mailing list with Andrew Kirkpatrick, senior product manager of accessibility at Adobe who actually posted directly to this list. CB Daniel Crone wrote: > It is Adobe we should contact. > On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > >> OK, I am no expert on these matters so I am coming to the list to ask >> the questions. Who are we to contact about the lack of accessibility >> with flash content? Apple or Adobe? I really am getting tired of not >> being able to use flash content and it is actually slightly better on >> the other OS but no where near as good as it once was. I used to be >> able to use flash content around version eight I believe it was but >> sadly we all had to upgrade to the really bad version nine which >> caused me to lose any hope of using flash. in the latest version with >> Jaws, although nothing is labeled, it seems a little better. so >> please, who do we talk too? I really feel this would help us all and >> if anyone else wants to use flash, let's email the relevant people. :) >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
