Christie Mason wrote:
It seems that SEs are beginning to index text in Flash. Maybe the same will
be true of screen readers, some day.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Search-Engine-Ind
exing-for-Flash-Websites-is-Improving/#?kc=EWKNLINF01142009STR5
The needs of search engines and those of screen readers (and their
users) are quite different. In the case of Google and co, they just need
to trawl through all the unstructured text to index according to
keywords. Screen readers need to actually understand the structure, and
most importantly dynamic changes, relationships of elements, etc. And,
with well-authored flash, it's possible even today to have a reasonably
accessible experience even for screen reader users.
P
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