Re: Silverlight Demos

  • From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:17:09 -0400

I will post up if I head in the Silverlight direction. Netflix has a pretty 
accessible Silverlight experience - only 3 buttons not reading their alt values 
and that is likely the programmer not specifying values.
Rick USA

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jared Wright 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:08 PM
  Subject: Re: Silverlight Demos


  I don't know how many favors you do yourself when you pick your tools based 
simply on the company who produces them. Still, your perrogative. Just know 
that I've seen lots of accessible Flash and no accessible Silverlight. But at 
least do let us know how you get along.

  JW



  On 6/25/2009 7:40 AM, RicksPlace wrote: 
    Well, it has been a couple of days I think since the responses on this 
thread. Since nobody has seemingly used Silverlight I guess it would be the 
world's first use by a blind programmer! flash is not an option since I am a MS 
person and want to stick with MS solutions.
    Thanks for all the suggestions and I may, or not, mess with Silverlight if 
I can find any examples I can understand.
    Thanks again:
    Rick USA
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jared Wright 
      To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:18 PM
      Subject: Re: Silverlight Demos


      I would check it out. Flash is a lot more prominent on the web, at least 
the places I frequent, than Silverlight, and I think for good reason. Not all 
Flash is accessible, but these instances can always be traced to developers not 
having much of a mind for accessibility. Given your sensitivity for it as a 
developer, I am confident you can come up with not only an accessible but a 
very user friendly interface for streaming media through Flash. I have not done 
any real dirty work with it, just a couple of demos myself, but I've already 
been to about four places on the web today that used Flash to stream their 
content, and I had a passable to pleasant experience with all of them. Just go 
look at Youtube for the most obvious example. All their video is flash.

      JW

      On 6/23/2009 11:07 AM, RicksPlace wrote: 
        Hi: Well, is that much simpler than using Silverlight? I have never 
even looked at flash and, for the most part, found flash sites not very 
accessible using a screen reader.
        Have you experience in using flash to play audio and video? Can it be 
made accessible and is it easy to learn?
        Silverlight seems quite complicated and I have not found good articles 
with any details concerning building a webpage and playing audio let alone 
video that was complete or simple enough to get through.
        Rick USA
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Jared Wright 
          To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
          Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:46 AM
          Subject: Re: Silverlight Demos


          Why not just use Flash?

          JW



          On 6/23/2009 8:04 AM, RicksPlace wrote: 
            Hi: Are there any folks who have worked with Silverlight?
            I would like to add audio streaming to a site and later video so 
think Silverlight may be the tool but I sure have not found any examples I 
could understand yet.
            Rick USA

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