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

  • From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:32:40 +0200

Not necessarily too relevant, but what I did on my drumming and noughts and 
crosses pages was use JQuery to control playback from an embedded/hidden flash 
object implemented by a thing called soundManager, and it lets you do things 
like set volume, pan stereo, play, pause, etc., and I used it since it sort of 
hides the flash object, can preload sound clips, and I used javascript via 
JQuery to control sound usage/playback.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RicksPlace 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:47 AM
  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 
    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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