- From: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:49:59 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "'Silvia Pfeiffer'" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "'Richard Schwerdtfeger'" <schwer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, <public-html-a11y-request@w3.org>
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > What about Adobe Flash in this area? Adobe Flash is used for many of > the same use cases that canvas is used for. Is Flash more accessible? > How do they do it? Is Flash prohibited because it's not accessible? http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/ > > On a side not: I'm wondering if in the majority of cases we may be > trying to achieve the impossible. For example, you may try as hard as > you want, but you will not achieve it that a blind user will be able > to drive a car with nothing but machine support. Even with the best > technology that will communicate what is happening around them, it > will be impossible to provide a description of the visible environment > sufficiently timely to make it possible/safe to drive without seeing. > What is our solution for the impossible situation? Never say never. Or as Ian Hickson is fond of reminding everyone, "Things that are impossible just take longer"... JF
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