Re: Suggestion for a fruit basket program

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:46:48 -0500

Hi Rick,
Unfortunately, there have been no takers yet on either Flash or Silverlight fruit basket programs. Hopefully someone will eventually take up the challenge, especially on Flash since it is so widespread on the web.

Jamal


On 3/7/2011 7:54 AM, RicksPlace wrote:
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>;
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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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