the only way to get adobe's attention is to hit them in the wallet, HARD. if all 15 million visually impaired in the US were to join in on a class action against adobe because of their flash player, that would make a hell of a class action and really get adobe's attention.
-Eric On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > I'm glad that at some point Flash may become a thing of the past, but I > suspect it will be several years before it happens. In particular with > respect to higher education. I certainly complained to the university I > attended and made zero progress. The solution was to simply require the > instructor to come up with an alternate assignment, which worked, but is not > addressing the issue. Even the agency I work for uses flash and I have tried > to get them looking for alternatives, but people like flash because they > really do not have to put out a lot of effort to complete a project. > Just my thoughts, but as far as I know Adobe has no plans to make anything > accessible for the Mac despite any petition. > > Scott > > > > > > On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> Events are rapidly overtaking adobe and flash in terms of html 5.0. Very >> probably once that comes out adobe flash will be able to be put in the junk >> software museum and left there as a particularly bad relic for the future. >> Another problem for web petitions is those are often used by spam artists to >> collect valid email addresses for their own uses. >> >> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Yuma Decaux wrote: >> >>> Hey list, >>> >>> I remember about 16 months ago, i participated in a petition made by >>> maccessibility in regards to making the flash player accessible. >>> >>> I remember that they said it would take another 18 months to get that >>> through. Well, the date is about to be reached, and with all this talk >>> about flash eating up ressources, battery and being as open as a lidless >>> jar of cookies, pun intended, i really don't care what they might do and at >>> which rate, but it would be interesting to know if they have even gone >>> forward on that. >>> >>> Just saying this because i've been looking into the lumigo T1 andro?d phone >>> holding bang and olufsen hardware within, and saught to look into some of >>> the accessibility inherent to that phone. And flash is probably prominent. >>> >>> Another area in which flash is rather ubiquitous are the shockwave powered >>> online courses. >>> >>> It's a bit of a frustration not being able to take certain courses because >>> flash has pasted itself all over the net. >>> >>> This just makes me reminisce when i was having loads of fun creating >>> futuristic interfaces. >>> >>> Best regards. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> "Light has no value without darkness" >>> >>> blog: http://www.theblindsamurai.com >>> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 >>> Tel: +64 210 22 77 190 >>> Phnom Penh: +85589900095 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
