RE: switching pages in a web site to use Silverlight 3 instead of Adobe flash?
- From: "Katherine Moss" <plymouthroamer285@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:00:57 -0500
Thanks Rick. I'm very close to the leader of the Mojo Portal project, in
fact, I'm always trying to help him out. I'll mention this, yet the funny
thing is that I've had no problems accessing any of the editors in VS2010,
nor SQL Server 2008 R2 for that matter (I use the express version). And
Silverlight is very accessible for development considering they have
explicitly made it to support the UIA framework in V 3. The issue that's
existing now is that JAWS scripting now supports UIA, yet no one uses it or
knows how to. Not that this matters, but Eset personnel are looking into
the issue of their current version not having lists of items accessible to
JAWS users, which I was going to try and see if anyone had scripting ideas
for it, but they seem to have it under control. I just thought that I'd let
you folks know. But I've heard of good accessibility with Silverlight 3.
The Mojo Portal leader told me though that certain things are staying in
flash from his perspective, but if one of his community members wants to
change it, then they can, but he's not going to mess with it. That's
completely understandable since he's focusing on the more important things,
while I try to help him out with the nitty-gritty. I'm named as the
accessibility adviser for the Mojo Portal team. And feel free to join the
Blind Access and Support Network, a.k.a. Raeder24. Our site is again:
www.raeder24.org.
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RicksPlace
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:48 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: switching pages in a web site to use Silverlight 3 instead of
Adobe flash?
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 <mailto:plymouthroamer285@xxxxxxxxx>
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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