The Hands That Feed(hofstader.com)
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The Hands That Feed
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@zdw, I hope you're not suggesting that native iOS apps have better accessibility than Flash? That's not the case. Flash is way out in front of native apps for accessibility.
Good closed caption support via external file or cue points, strong keyboard control, mouse pointer/cursor appearance manipulation, versatile multi-channel audio.
Apple did no favors by excluding Flash from Safari. When a website contains Flash, it's in everyone's interest, including blind users, that the Flash object is loaded successfully if the user wishes it so. That should be obvious.
Check the Adobe site for "Flash accessibility design guidelines".
Screen reader technology is evolving too remember. Of course there would need to be capabilities added to iOS Safari, such as screen reader plugin. But that the Flash accessibility problem has been addressed on desktop now, but no one seems to have noticed!
"When a screen reader encounters content created with Flash, it loads the current state of the movie and notifies the user. With the Window-Eyes screen reader, the user hears, "Loading…load done." Once a piece of content has been read, the screen reader moves on to read other parts of the content and the rest of the page."
"Adobe worked with GW Micro to create a Halt Flash Events keystroke (Alt+Shift+M) for the Window-Eyes screen reader. This keystroke allows a screen reader user to suspend Flash notifications on the page. Pressing the keystroke again allows the user to resume Flash notifications..."
Good closed caption support via external file or cue points, strong keyboard control, mouse pointer/cursor appearance manipulation, versatile multi-channel audio.
Apple did no favors by excluding Flash from Safari. When a website contains Flash, it's in everyone's interest, including blind users, that the Flash object is loaded successfully if the user wishes it so. That should be obvious.
Check the Adobe site for "Flash accessibility design guidelines".
Screen reader technology is evolving too remember. Of course there would need to be capabilities added to iOS Safari, such as screen reader plugin. But that the Flash accessibility problem has been addressed on desktop now, but no one seems to have noticed!
"When a screen reader encounters content created with Flash, it loads the current state of the movie and notifies the user. With the Window-Eyes screen reader, the user hears, "Loading…load done." Once a piece of content has been read, the screen reader moves on to read other parts of the content and the rest of the page."
"Adobe worked with GW Micro to create a Halt Flash Events keystroke (Alt+Shift+M) for the Window-Eyes screen reader. This keystroke allows a screen reader user to suspend Flash notifications on the page. Pressing the keystroke again allows the user to resume Flash notifications..."
Apple did the blind a huge favor by not supporting Flash in iOS.