I went to the HTML5 v. Flash presentation today. IMHO there was tap
dancing going on in the presentation. In the list of "Cons" about Flash
they listed Mac accessibility but the speaker said they were activly
working on it and were adding support for open standards-based
accessibility APIs like IAccessible. Sooo, how will that help with
voiceover? They seem to have some nice object to accessibility API
mappings going on for Windows but are tenacious about not implementing
for Apple's APIs. I'm sure the general friction with Apple over flash on
iPhone isn't helping things either.
BTW, WebAIM screen reader survey found VO usage on non-iOS devices over
the last three surveys has gone from 6% in January 09 to 20% in December
2010 in the "commonly used" category. Still only 10% in the "primary"
category (up 1%) as compared to Jaws at 59% (down 6%).
For those of you wondering, yes I'm still lurking. Just not as much time
to respond these days.
CB
On 3/18/11 6:18 PM, Bryan Jones wrote:
I'm wondering if anybody here who attended CSUN heard any promising news from Adobe
regarding the accessibility of Flash on the Mac. It's now been one year since Adobe
announced they were, "...planning major upgrades to the accessibility support in
Adobe Flash Player" and my testing of the latest Flash player, 10.3 beta, shows no
accessibility improvements unless you count the addition of a control in System
Preferences as an improvement
Here's the link to their CSUN schedule:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2011/03/adobe-at-csun-2011-conference.html
Here's the link to their March 24, 2010 announcement about bringing
accessibility to Flash:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html
TIA,
Bryan
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