- From: James Craig <jcraig@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:45:20 -0700
- To: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Cc: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
Response acknowledged. Thanks. On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Loretta Guarino Reid wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM, James Craig <jcraig@apple.com> wrote: >> Congratulations to the Adobe Accessibility team for creation of the WCAG 2 Flash Techniques. It's an impressive resource. >> >> I noticed that the following disclaimer is applied to many (but not all) of the Flash techniques that rely on accessibility APIs to convey information to the user's assistive technology. >> >>> Flash accessibility support for assistive technology relies on use in Windows operating systems, using Internet Explorer 6 or later (with Flash Player 6 or later) or Mozilla Firefox 3 or later (with Flash Player 9 or later). >> >> >> I think it's a good idea to keep this note prominently located on each of the applicable techniques, because many developers still don't realize that Flash is only accessible to Windows users. I did see the note in the compilation page (http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/flash.html#flash_accessibility_support) that Adobe plans accessibility support for Mac and Linux, but until that support is available, the disclaimer above should be added to these pages as well. >> >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH8.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH10.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH11.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH12.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH13.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH17.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH18.html >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH21.html >> >> Also, an image is missing from the following page. >> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/FLASH8.html >> > ================================ > Response from the Working Group > ================================ > Because the User Agent Notes for Flash are extensive, and they are the > same for all the Flash techniques, we decided to document them in a > common location and include links to the notes in each technique. > > Thank you for catching the reference to the missing image. We will correct this. > > > Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair > Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair > Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact > > > On behalf of the WCAG Working Group
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