Re: Flash and WCAG

just went to the mint web site and all the falsh with the accessibilkity is
down.  that is the golden dollar and 50 state quarter interactive maps.
heard the reason is privacy.  apparently the governemnt has ccked down on
what can be up there. this case it was people could put personal information
and this is not the direction the government wants to go, so it was removed.

please remember i am no longer at the united states mint in Wash DC and am
in dallas at the zale.com.

wendy, i am moving out of corporate housing next week into a apartment and
will provide my new email address then.

cheers, rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Williams" <mikew@macromedia.com>
To: "Greg Gay" <g.gay@utoronto.ca>; "Wendy A Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>
Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Flash and WCAG


> This is a great example, but we are interested in creating solutions that
> will work entirely in Flash. I am currently working on a draft of a
document
> outlining how Flash will fit into the WAI guidelines.
> I would also like to work with the group on updating the current examples
of
> Flash on the site, which definitely could use a lot of work.
>
> --
> Michael Williams
> Macromedia Flash Team
> 415-832-5991
>
>
> > From: Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>
> > Organization: Centre for Academic and Adaptive Technology
> > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:59:03 -0400
> > To: Mike Williams <mikew@macromedia.com>
> > Cc: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> > Subject: Re: Flash and WCAG
> > Resent-From: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> > Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:02:04 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > We've done a little work with captioning and Flash. We ended up using
SMIL and
> > feeding the Flash movie through Real player. As far as we know there is
not a
> > way
> > the sychronize captions using Flash 4 alone, though it may be possible
with
> > Flash
> > 5.
> >
> > http://www.websavvy-access.org/resources/real_demo.html
> >
> > Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Mike,
> >>
> >> I responded to a private mail you sent to me a while back, but I will
also
> >> respond publicly to this e-mail.
> >>
> >>>> 1. In the context of Checkpoint 1.4 [0], Cynthia Shelley asked [1],
"Does
> >>>> anyone know if Flash supports synchronizing captions?"
> >>>
> >>> This is possible via several different methods... Some are fairly
simple,
> >>> some are a bit more convoluted.. I would be interested in maybe making
an
> >>> example site illustrating this, maybe with someone on the working
group (Mr.
> >>> Neff?)...
> >>
> >> An example site would be excellent!  Is anyone interested in
volunteering
> >> to work with Mike on this?
> >>
> >>>> 2. In July the working group published "Non-W3C Techniques for Web
Content
> >>>> Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [2].  It has two Flash related
> >>>> examples.  What do you think of them?  Can you improve upon them?
Are
> >>>> there others you can suggest?  The current suggestions only discuss
what to
> >>>> do if the user does not have a Flash plug-in enabled or installed.
Have
> >>>> you investigated how to make Flash directly accessible?  In other
words,
> >>>> have you tested how to make a Flash presentation usable by a person
with a
> >>>> screen reader?
> >>>
> >>> We have tech notes available and several white papers documenting
most, if
> >>> not all of these concerns.. but it would be great to get all of the
concerns
> >>> together and shoot them into one central place... What steps do you
> >>> recommend to get this ball rolling?
> >>
> >> Where are these documents?  Who is interested in reading these and then
> >> figure out how to include  the information in the non-w3c technologies
> >> techniques for wcag?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> --wendy
> >> --
> >> wendy a chisholm
> >> world wide web consortium
> >> web accessibility initiative
> >> madison, wi usa
> >> tel: +1 608 663 6346
> >> /--
> >
> > --
> > Greg Gay
> > Project Manager
> > Centre for Academic and Adaptive Technology
> > University of Toronto
> > 416 978-4043
> > ICQ 9020587
> >
> >
>
>

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