Re: switching pages in a web site to use Silverlight 3 instead of Adobe flash?

  • From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:47:43 -0500

Hi Katherine: I am not sure about just adding a Silverlight Player to a page. 
Coding for Silverlight, native code, is done in a subset of WPF which has not 
been very accessible in Visual Studio. I don't know how accessible it is in VS 
2010 or any of the other Development Packages that work with Silverlight for 
2010 - I think that would be version 3 or so. If you find a canned Silverlight 
Player you can encorporate in your page let me know since I would like to do 
something like that myself and might even create a little tutorial on the 
experience.
Well, That's all I have, sorry it isn't much.
Rick USA 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Katherine Moss 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:47 PM
  Subject: switching pages in a web site to use Silverlight 3 instead of Adobe 
flash?


  Hi guys,

  This has been bothering me for quite a while now.  I'm certainly no 
programmer, not yet at least, and I'll never be one professionally, but I do 
enjoy coding to say the least.  I'd like to know something.  Mojo Portal, the 
CMS off of which my web site is based (it's about technology with a primary 
focus on accessibility), has some flash elements in it, and I don't really like 
that for a number of reasons going in order from most important to least 
important:

  Flash exhibits many security holes, and I want to protect my users/viewers

  Flash is not the most accessible thing in the world for JAWS users

  Flash is not a viable option when it's installer is not accessible and the 
plugin for Firefox is unstable

   

  I've not heard of a single issue like this with Silverlight.  I know that 
this may sound strange, but one of my proposals for the web site downloads 
page, which is a separate page due to the fact that some of it branches in a 
few directions, is to have video/audio live demos of Operating system 
functionality, apps, and other related media content.  I'd like that to be done 
in Silverlight.  Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.  To see the 
site, go to www.raeder24.org.  

   

  Thanks,

  Katherine

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