RE: "commercial websites that have adopted symbolic based accessibility"

> Flash has come a long way toward the *possibility* of 
> accessibility in the last couple of years. It would have been 

John, 
Just to clarify, accessibility has been a development topic for over 5
years.

> possible for the developers of the Disney site  to achieve 
> considerably more accessibility. But Disney would have had to 
> include it in the project requirements document, in enough 

Sure.  Just as with an HTML site.  In a quick glance at the Disney site
the home page's Flash content is missing two things - image equivalents
and a defined tab order.  Defining the tab order is the item that
differs from an HTML version of the same content.  There are certainly
Flash applications that are more complex and difficult to make
accessible, but this isn't one of them.

Of course, there is some question about whether screen reader access is
the appropriate method of access for young kids who may be viewing the
site and who haven't learned to use a screen reader yet...  Flash can
help with this also.

> I'm very interested in your work with SVG. Do you know of any 
> SVG viewers that are accessible to users who are blind? 

The only SVG voicing tool that I know of is a ViewPlus product, IVEO.

AWK