- From: Matt May <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:24:00 -0700
- To: "Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG)" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- CC: tina@greytower.net, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Roberto Scano (IWA/HWG) wrote: > Nearly every implementation of <object> is broken, especially when it > comes to handling cascading objects. > >Roberto: >This is an user agent issue. > Which is precisely why we can't fix it in WCAG. >Roberto: >Flash accessibility is theory: we operate in real life, not in theory > Funny, but wrong. When we're dealing with screen reader users, 99% of that market is on Windows, using IE or its ActiveX control. Neither VoiceOver on OS X nor Gnopernicus on Linux has the user base or the stability necessary to get accessibility hooks. (Though once they are mature and stable enough, I would expect Macromedia/Adobe to provide them.) And nearly all of those Windows users have the Flash player. That's real life. Break their access to the Flash internals, and you break accessibility to blind users. - m
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