[thelist] Question of Accessibility

[Martin Burns]

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On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 11:07  pm, James S. Huggins (Evolt) wrote:

>>>> You're using Flash MX?
>
> Not sure. It is not my page.

My guess is 'yes' because of the keyboard tabs - MM put a lot of work in
exposing accessibility elements in MX, with much improved results.

>>>> Summary - what I can see on this setup is good for Flash.
>>>> I'm still left wondering why one wouldn't do this with HTML
>>>> which would provide *all* the hooks to *all* UAs,
>>>> and with likely lesser download times...
>
> Not a clue. I can't even get it to play at all on my machine (but I'm
> sure
> that is a peculiarity to my machine).

<rhetorical question>Would that have been a problem with standard
HTML?</rq>

> So are you saying it "is" accessible?

No, I'm saying 'so far so good' but there's a lot to test on a machine
with a screenreader like WindowsEyes.

The lynx test suggests that even if all the hooks are used, though, it
won't score more than a 6/10. Certainly not gold standard accessible, no.

Adding duplicate text links on *all* the pages would help, though.

Cheers
Martin
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