Flash MX Accessiblitiy Features are Disappointing
The Royal National Institute for the Blind wanted to know just how accessible the Flash MX could be, so they commissioned Bluewave to create an online game that would be accessible to the blind. Only the latest version of Windows-Eyes screen reader was able to benefit from Flash’s accessibility features. Julie Howell, Campaigns Officer for the Institute is disappointed with the results.
“Macromedia needs to recognise its social responsibility - disabled people shouldn’t be locked out of the Web,” she said.
(via CHI-WEB)
- 19 Jun 02
- accessibility, flash, julie howell, software
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Hi Joshua, thanks for your interest in this… here’s some more context on the current level of device support:
http://jdmx.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_jdmx_archive.html#77899243
This morning I also came across an article from Robert Hall… I haven’t been able to evaluate the implementation yet, but this sounds exciting too:
http://www.impossibilities.com/blog/entry_blog-35.html
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support
John Dowdell on 19 Jun 02