Lisa 

Welcome to the frustrating world of sites highly done in flash.  
Currently, neither JFW or WE seem to do well with these sites.

As to your comment, Tom, while a site as this frustrates me, I would 
hardly hold contempt for the developer as seriously doubt he or she 
intentionally wished to frustrate any user.  It just happens that flash is 
growing in use, and the developer chooses to use it, therefore.  The real 
challenge here falls upon the screen reader manufacturers to figure this 
one out and come up with a product that can successfully deal with it.
I am sure that they are trying and, so far, at least have not come up with 
anything to successfully handle this.
Once a manufacturer does solve this, I can almost guarantee that they will 
have many consumers using their product.

Yes, this too frustrates me as there are sites I would like to regularly 
visit that makes it difficult or impossible to use.  But I don't consider 
owner, developer, or maintainer of that site as intentionally wished to 
make life difficult for a blind user.  Unless that individual regularly 
deals with screen reader users, how would they know that they were causing 
problem.  They are using a website development technique that is 
increasingly popular and effective; so why not take advantage of it.
Our difficulty is an unintentional consequence that they never imagined as 
a normal individual hardly thinks of blind people as they seldom come up 
with this issue in their lives.

If anything, at this point, I am more frustrated with GWMicro, Freedom 
Scientific, et al in not being able to crap this nut which has now been 
around for quite a while.  If they don't, and someone else does, that 
company will have many users knocking at their door.
And I would be one of them.



If you are to have peace with God, there must be war with Satan.
Charles H. Spurgeon, 19th Century British evangelist


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