Hi Christine, I modified the subject line to separate this out from your Garageband question. Flash is largely inaccessible using VO and I've pasted some details about that at the bottom of this message. But first, here's a method you might find helpful when attempting to access those flash elements on the Irish Gaelic language lesson website. These tips came from other listers in the past, as we all eventually bump up against the inaccessible Flash content issue at some point. This workaround assumes you either have Mouse Keys turned on (Press the Option key 5 times quickly to toggle mousekeys) or you have a mouse or trackpad attached to your Mac and have the trackpad commander toggled off (VO + Rotor on the trackpad). 1. Install Flash Player. 2. Install the Safari ClickToFlash extension as mentioned in my previous email. 3. Restart Safari. 4. Go to your website: http://bitesizeirish.com 5. Navigate to the "Demo" link and press VO Space. 6. Navigate to the free demo lesson and press VO Space. 7. Press Command + Control + A to tell Click To Flash to load all flash elements on the current screen. 8. Navigate to item one in the demo lesson. 9. Press VO - Command - F5 to route the mouse cursor to the VO cursor. (Note -- Add the Fn key to that combo if using a macbook). 10. Use your Mouse Keys, trackpad or mouse to move the mouse cursor just slightly to the left until you hear VO announce "Empty scroll area." This means your mouse pointer is on the flash Play button. CLick your mouse or trackpad to activate the play button and you should hear the pronunciation. Repeat steps 8, 9 & 10 for each item in the lesson.
As far as true accessibility of Flash Player under Mac OS, Adobe announced one year ago that they would be implementing accessibility in the next major release of Flash Player across Mac, Linux and Windows platforms. That major release has yet to see the light of day and Adobe has given no ETA. Here's their blog on the subject and you can add a comment to the blog if you so desire. http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html Also, you might consider contacting the developers of the Gaelic lessons website to ask if they could change from flash or add an accessible alternative. HTH, Bryan On Mar 28, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Christine Grassman wrote: > I was able to read the numbers, but there are supposed to be buttons to play > so that you can hear the pronunciation. Were you able to use those? > P.S. For material which requires Flash, is there anything we Mac users can > use to access such material? It seems like a rather large audience to ignore. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
