[Nfb-web] Flash and Fireworks

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

    This fall I'm taking a course that requires me to use three Macromedia
packages. While Dreamweaver is blind-friendly over-all Flash, and Fireworks
are another matter all together; at least at first glance. I'd be curious to
hear from anyone who has been able to use these programs and to hear what
level of success you've had using them independently as a blind person. I
thought I heard somewhere that several blind folks were able to do some
tasks in Flash without vision. I can't remember if they were animations, or
working with Flash Movies. As for drawing in Flash, well, I'll need to team
up with someone unless there are work-arounds for creating images and
animations using code of some kind.

    I have yet to hear from any blind folks who have used Fireworks
successfully, and what they were able to accomplish with it. For that matter
I'm not sure how Fireworks differs from Flash. I only know that they're both
used mainly for designing graphics and animations. Any information I can get
will be appreciated.

Peter Donahue