Re: Suggestion for a fruit basket program

  • From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 07:54:42 -0500

Hi Jamal: Have you heard from anyone? I tried to use Silverlight with my VWD Express but it would not work and I ended up giving up. It might work with Visual Studio because it has, or had, other project types without downloading things that did not work when I tried them a couple of years ago. Also, I have done nothing with flash. It would be cool, in fact getting almost manditory, that a Website support Audio / Video so this is a good Project. It is also complicated. Flash is complicated and has accessibility issues. Silverlight, wpf, is complicated in prior to the latest releases has had accessibility issues. Anyway, keep us informed if anyone tackles that project line. Some day I might be able to upgrade to Windows7 or Windows8 or whatever and I might then try Silverlight again after looking into wpf with VS 2010 or later.

Rick USA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> To: "programmingblind" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 11:04 AM
Subject: Suggestion for a fruit basket program


Unfortunately, Flash/Flex-based web interfaces commonly involve unlabeled or otherwise inaccessible controls. I think Adobe should do more to make default settings of such interfaces accessible. Since it is, indeed, usually possible to make such interfaces accessible with appropriate coding, I think a useful contribution would be a fruit basket program that illustrates how this can be done. Information about the specifications for a fruit basket program, and examples of many in various languages, are available at

http://FruitBasketDemos.org

Another variation of this would be a Silverlight-based fruit basket program. If one develops an accessible such program, I suggest being explicit about the screen reader and version used for verifying this. The example could then also be used to spur other screen reader developers into improving their support for dynamic web interfaces (ARIA).


Jamal
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