At 1/31/2010 07:52 PM, Russ Weakley wrote:
A colleague has just asked me for some examples of Flash sites:
1. examples of flash sites which are not keyboard accessible (and/or
poor tab ordering)
2. examples of flash sites which ARE keyboard accessible
A wrinkle in keyboard accessibility is what I think of as the Black
Holes of Flash: when a Flash application swallows keystrokes that
normally operate the browser such as the CTL and ALT combinations in
Windows. It's commonplace in my experience that Flash developers will
prevent me from using CTL-w to close the current tab, CTL-TAB to
switch to the next tab, ALT-whatever to use the browser's menu, and
so on. They're not even re-purposing the keystrokes for new uses in
their applications, they're just eating them. Keyboard accessibility
can therefore be seen as a matter of degree, not merely true/false. A
Flash app might itself be keyboard-accessible but still be quite
frustrating for a keyboard user for whom the Flash app is not the
only activity in their day. If you can't leave the browser window
running Flash without using a mouse, someone's botched their job.
An example of a Flash application which itself is, alas, not
keyboard-accessible but that does honor browser keystrokes is the
jacket designer <http://tmathletics.com/designer.php> which we
produced a few years ago. (The next-gen version we're producing this
year will be accessible!)
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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