Adobe bought the company which originally developed Flash. That company did not care anything at all about accessibility. Adobe, on the other hand, made a mild change to their corporate position around accessibility in 2001 and promoted one of their engineers to accessibility consultant. I learned this from said person. So I would give Adobe a C+ for accessibility focus. This is much better than many companies.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Jul 2014, at 12:51, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Often in Flash content, you can activate buttons with your spacebar and go > between controls with the tab key. So, hit when presented with a Flash > movie, try hitting your spacebar to start, if that doesn't work, then hit tab > once and try hitting the spacebar again. Repeat a few times and one of them > may be the "play" button. Regarding Adobe's commitment to accessibility, I'm > not trying to start an opinion war here, but claiming that Adobe does not > care about accessibility is not valid. The little battle between Apple and > Adobe with respect to accessible API's within Flash content is certainly > frustrating but accusations such as that are simply false. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > >> On Jul 27, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I might add here concerning flash. Apple has nothing to do with flash. Flash >> is developed by Adobe and quite frankly, I don't think Adobe cares much at >> all about accessibility. This is my opinion; yes, Adobe has funded NVDA >> development but PDF documents are more less accessible on Windows but their >> product is not accessible on the Mac. Only reason we can read PDFs on the >> Mac is because Adobe released the PDF specification some time ago so we can >> use Preview to read PDFs. As for flash, I personally haven't seen an >> accessible flash presentation on any platform. I think the best thing that >> has happened so far is the abandonment of flash on the mobile platform. Now >> if it would just die more quickly on the computer platforms, then we would >> generally see improvements in accessibility as HTML5 supposedly helps this >> situation. >> >>> On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Can you post the link to what you were trying to access? >>> >>> >>>> -- >>>> Cheryl >>>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! >>>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>>> And now, every day: >>>> "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: >>>> The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; >>>> his mercies never come to an end; >>>> they are new every morning; >>>> great is your faithfulness." >>>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>>> >>> >>>> On Jul 27, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> But why not? I mean why is flash not accessible? It seems >>>> counter-intuitive. With so much progress and accessibility that apple has >>>> given us, why not flash? Any work about this? And to the point, no, I >>>> needed to watch the video to get what I wanted. >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>>> On 27 Jul 2014, at 20:05, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Flash content, sadly, is known not to be accessible on OS X. >>>>> >>>>> Did you get anything from the video? 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