great initiative! thanks! btw, is 'FlashAid' a *legal* name ? won't Adobe's lawyers suck your blood for that ? ;) Cedric > 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 for more information on FlashAid. > > Aral > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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