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
