Comments on: Flash, browsers, OSes & accessibility http://nickcowie.com/2006/flash-browsers-oses-accessibility/ Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: nick http://nickcowie.com/2006/flash-browsers-oses-accessibility/#comment-4022 nick Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:46:35 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/2006/flash-browsers-oses-accessibility/#comment-4022 Benjamin, thank you for the comment and the link. I have amended the post to reflect the actual situation. Benjamin, thank you for the comment and the link. I have amended the post to reflect the actual situation.

]]> By: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis http://nickcowie.com/2006/flash-browsers-oses-accessibility/#comment-3962 Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:24:30 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/2006/flash-browsers-oses-accessibility/#comment-3962 "MSAA works very well with Microsoft products and this is what Flash uses to make content accessible to screen readers. Firefox does not work as effectively as IE with MSAA" I'd say this situation was actually reversed in November 2005. For more discussion of this issue, you might be interested in this thread at Mozilla's dev-accessibility mailing list: http://tinyurl.com/yhkphw [Google Groups Beta] PS It would be really handy to know whether this commenting system accepts HTML or plain text or what. “MSAA works very well with Microsoft products and this is what Flash uses to make content accessible to screen readers. Firefox does not work as effectively as IE with MSAA”

I’d say this situation was actually reversed in November 2005. For more discussion of this issue, you might be interested in this thread at Mozilla’s dev-accessibility mailing list:

http://tinyurl.com/yhkphw [Google Groups Beta]

PS It would be really handy to know whether this commenting system accepts HTML or plain text or what.

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