Mike,
I suspect that the Flash user interface is, in some basic inbuilt way,
inaccessible. JAWS scripters have developed scripts to work with
certain Flash programs; but they do not appear to work in every relevant
situation. have you seen the BBC iPlayer? it seems very good: But
there is at least one thing it can't do, regardless of screen-reader,
despite promises made by the BBC with the best of intentions about two
or three years ago. You can move by percentages through BBC programmes,
but you can't move (fast/forward-rewind) by time in minutes/seconds, in
either music or speech programmes, which - if you were sighted and
didn't depend on a screen-reader - you can do.
(This becomes important, say, in a two- or 3-hour-length radio programme
you are listening back to.)
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> Flor
>
> Even more scary is that the screen reader manufacturers, to this time,
> have not been able to effectively deal with flash. We've seen on this
> list, and many others, where more and more pages and sites are
> becoming
> more of a challenge to use.
> Whichever manufacturer will be first to make the break through, and if
> they are not quickly followed by the competition, will have a whole
> army
> of users ready to embrace their product.
>
>
>
>
>
> God's answers are wiser than our prayerss.
>
> --unknown
>
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