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
