[Nfb-web] Developing Accessable Web Applications Using flash, Asp and Visual Basic

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

It's not true that only "the text part" of Flash can be made accessible 
to JAWS. Flash images can be given labels which JAWS can read, Flash 
movies can be captioned and audio described, and Flash controls can be 
activated from the keyboard, if the Flash developer uses Flash's 
accessibility featureset. However, accessible Flash content only exposes 
to the Microsoft Active Accessibility framework, and only with the 
ActiveX Flash plugin, which in practice means only with Internet 
Explorer and other Trident-based browsers. In other words, it doesn't 
work with the Netscape-style plugin Adobe provides for Firefox, nor on 
Linux nor on Mac OS X. Very few Flash developers use the Flash 
accessibility featureset, hence it's very poor reputation among 
assistive technology users.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

Sunfire wrote:
> Flash isn't usable by jaws people. Only to a limited point can it be viewed
> by jaws people (the text part if there is any). Otherwise It's just a blank
> section of a page started by the words "flash movie start" and ended with
> the words "flash movie end". So, for flash, no. As far as asp.net 2.0,
> VB.net 2.0 and a GUI to write the websites with, that is very doable. I do
> it myself with asp.net 2.0, VC# 2.0 and sql server 2005 express. I use
> Visual Studio 2005 standard to write my websites. If you go to the blind
> programming list, somebody can give some scripts for jaws 7+ that work with
> VS 2005. There is also some custom settings that are needed to maximize jaws
> usability with vs 2005 and you can get them there too. If you don't have, or
> don't want to pay the $300 for vs 2005 standard, there are free express
> versions of vs 2005 but they have limits to what they can or can't do. The
> blind programming list can help out with a lot of that stuff. hth
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Marvin Hunkin
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:01 PM
> To: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfb-web] Developing Accessable Web Applications Using flash,Asp
> and Visual Basic
> 
> 
> Hi.
> looking at doing some subjects in my web design course, and was wondering,
> if i can develop web applications using flash, asp, visual basic with Jaws?
> any documentation, or experiences of using that, and what standards, so then
> i can then contact my lecturer with the information, he needs. cheers
> Marvin.
> 
> 
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