- From: Accessys@smart.net <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Stephane Deschamps <stephane.deschamps@gmail.com>
- cc: Ginger Claassen <ginger.claassen@gmx.de>, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
FYI I tried to download it an while it claims Linux it wouldn't load after the download so ??? Bob On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Stephane Deschamps wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ginger Claassen <ginger.claassen@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > well, the student is not blind and I cannot see the realtion between the > > fact that a tool might not be accessible and the result not being > > accessible. > > My only interest lies in the fact to make a silverlight application > > accessible to the user. The tool to create it is of no importance at all at > > this point of time. > > Hi Ginger, > > Sorry for being late responding. > > I was at a seminary by Microsoft about UI Automation, Microsoft's new > accessibility layer, and we talked about Silverlight too. > > What I gather is that, in a Windows environment, Silverlight is as > accessible as Flash. > > Turned the other way round and from my experience with Flash, expect: > - it will work best in Windows > - it will work best in Internet Explorer > - Flash accessiiblity is an awful lot of work. > > I don't have experience with Silverlight yet, but I expect user > experience to be sub-par in terms of interoperability and > accessibility, and costly in your efforts to be accessible within > these constraints. > > At the moment I'm still advising people to use W3C technologies (HTML, > CSS) with a bit of Ajax when needed (and the usual testing phase of > Javascript on and off, as well as testing Ajax with screen readers, > Yellow-fade techniques, etc). > > (so you see you're not too off-topic for this list, come to think of it) ;) > > -- > Stéphane Deschamps > perso: http://www.nota-bene.org/ > org: http://www.pompage.net/ > - end ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ occasionally a true patriot must defend his country from its' government +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety", Benjamin Franklin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ASCII Ribbon Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . accessBob .NO HTML/PDF/RTF/MIME in e-mail. . . . . . . accessys@smartnospam.net .NO MSWord docs in e-mail . . . .. . . . . . Access Systems, engineers .NO attachments in e-mail, .*LINUX powered*. access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# THIS message and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privileged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named
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