Thanks for that additional explanation. Any improvement to Flash will be most welcome to all of us!
Cher -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Marang Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:16 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Advances in Flash Accessibility with JAWS You picked that up correctly. The end user will not have to change anything! The Flash Professional CS4 software is only needed for developing the Flash content. The great breakthrough for us blind users is the accessibility capabilities are the default and automatic. The developer does not have to know about or write code to implement accessibility, it is just there! It is there even if they did not plan for it or want it! I am hoping that FS can make a minor tweak in version 10 to allow Forms Mode to be enabled when on a slider control within a Flash object. Currently, I have seen this in seek and volume controls. Unfortunately, JAWS must be in Forms Mode for the control to react to left arrow, right arrow, Home and End keys. Don Marang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don and Cher Bosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Advances in Flash Accessibility with JAWS > Follow-up: After re-reading your post- Since these changes are all on > the > creative side, should we be able to benefit from these improvements > without > downloading anything (including newer versions of Flash) on our end? > > Cher > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don and Cher > Bosch > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:35 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Advances in Flash Accessibility with JAWS > > Since this product says 'Professional' though, is it only available in a > paid version? Or is there an update for the free version of Flash which > has > these new accessibility features? Thanks. > > Cher > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Marang > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:06 PM > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Advances in Flash Accessibility with JAWS > > Adobe has recently released updates to their Creativity Suite 4 (CS4) line > of products, which include Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, and more. They > claim to have accessibility improvements in many of these products,but the > Flash improvements stood out to me as the most significant! I immediately > thought this is great, but it will take years before I notice any > improvements in popular sites. To my astonishment, I viewed a video on > YouTube.com and the interface is already very accessible and implements > these features! Hopefully, other sites update their websites quickly! I > have yet to understand how the volume and seek slider controls are moved > with the arrow, Home and End keys with JAWS as described. I tried to > force > JAWS to be in Forms Mode in both versions 9 and 10 beta, to enable the > arrow, Home, and End keys to affect the control, but I am not sure how to > do > this. Maybe, I could try to use the JAWS pass-through keystroke (Insert > 3), > but that would be cumbersome since you would probably want to use > multiple, > repeated use of an arrow key on one of these sliders. Any ideas? > > Below is a short description of the enhancements from Adobe's site: > > > Adobe Flash accessibility design guidelines Accessible video controls > AdobeR > FlashR CS4 Professional software provides industry-leading support for > accessible video. Providing captions for video solves accessibility > challenges for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, but people who are > blind or who have low vision or other physical disabilities need the video > playback controls to be keyboard accessible and to function properly with > assistive technologies such as screen readers and screen magnifiers. Flash > CS4 Professional offers improvements to the FLVPlayback video component > that > make the default player controls accessible automatically, without any > coding required by the developer. > > Simple implementation > All skins provided by Flash CS4 Professional support keyboard and screen > reader access, so developers simply insert the FLVPlayback component on > the > stage in Flash - no configuration is needed. > > Accessible interaction > Users who rely on keyboard access can utilize a variety of familiar > shortcuts to interact with the video controls. Buttons such as Play/Pause, > Stop, Rewind, Mute, and Closed Captions can be tabbed to and activated > with > the spacebar key. Slider controls such as the volume and playhead position > controls can be accessed via the arrow keys, and the Home and End keys can > be used to go directly to the beginning or end of the range. The volume > slider also accepts numeric keys to set the playback audio levels in one > quick step. > > Users who use screen readers will find appropriate names for the video > player controls that ensure that each control's purpose is clear. Some > controls require that the screen reader is in form interaction mode (which > is Forms mode in JAWS or Browse Off mode in Window-Eyes) because screen > readers often utilize arrow keys and other shortcuts for other purposes. > For > example, many screen readers use right and left arrow keys to read > individual letters in text and control labels, so these keys are not > available outside of form interaction mode, as expected by users. > > > > > Don Marang > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To post to this group, send email to > jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To post to this group, send email to jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
