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Hi everyone, We were having a barbeque on the beach on Saturday night when Jeremy Keith from Clearleft told us of an idea he had had for improving accessibility in Ajax applications by exposing, from a Flash application, the ability to detect whether accessibility features are installed on the user's computer. I had taken this feature for granted and didn't realize that the Ajax world was forced to live without it. Jeremy was surprised that no one had implemented this yet and we agreed that it was not rocket science by any means. In fact, I got a little time today to develop it and the result is FlashAid, which I've released under the open source MIT license on OSFlash! FlashAid allows _javascript_
to check if accessibility features exist on the user's computer by
using a hidden (1 pixel x 1 pixel) Flash application. It requires Flash
8 and should be compatible with every browser supported by
ExternalInterface (for a full list, see the FlashAid web page.) FlashAid v0.1 Preview is ready for download. This is a very early, proof-of-concept release. Please join the mailing list and give us feedback. It would be especially useful to hear from Ajax developers working on implementing accessibility in their applications. More info on my blog post at http://aralbalkan.com/644 See the FlashAid web site
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