[nvda] Re: Debra's Flash application [was Audacity problem]

Sorry for the long web address but I think this bit of info can help with flash accessibility. If the address below doesn't work people can just type creating an accessible flash application into a google search and look through the results. 
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Rv3TprXLi-oJ:www.adobe.com/resources/accessibility/best_practices/best_practices_acc_flash.pdf+creating+an+accessible+flash+application&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Teh" <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:48 AM
Subject: [nvda] Debra's Flash application [was Audacity problem]



Debra Riese wrote:
All that screen readers do is read text, and as long as there is text on the screen it will be read.
This isn't entirely true, especially in the case of a screen reader like NVDA and especially with a technology such as Flash. The easiest way to expose information to screen readers is through the use of accessibility APIs such as MSAA. You would never use MSAA directly; Flash would expose certain information to the accessibility API for the platform in use. However, I'm not sure how Flash determines what information to expose for accessibility.
The method is to be able to code the keys to tab from button to button, have the button function with either a control/enter or two keystrokes on the users keyboard, and to place the text over the button, This is also the limitation of the TTS voice files
Again, I'm not sure how Flash implements accessibility, but you should theoretically be able to have a piece of text which is exposed for accessibility but which is not visible on the screen. You should be able to do this as part of the control itself, rather than having to place a separate text control over the button. At least, this is how it is done in other UI toolkits. Hopefully, Flash is intelligent enough to have something similar... 

Jamie


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