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 <mailto:wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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 <mailto:wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
*To:* programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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