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

This document does describe what I said in my earlier email, the developer
has to assign the text in some manner.

On 9/26/07, John Greer <jpgreer17@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > James Teh
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