Re: Adobe suspends work on accessible Flash Player for the Mac.
I personally think Adobe Flash will vanish within the next 5 years. Adobe have already stopped developing it for Android and it never arrived on iOS. I was surprised to see Microsoft built support for it into IE 10 for Windows 8. I expect HTML5 to replace many of the features that we came to expect from Flash. I have uninstalled Flash from my Mac altogether, which means I don't get to see as many annoying ads and plus you can use YouTube via HTML5 now. Oracle are another company moving away from Flash, so I honestly think Flash is doomed. Chris On 13 Jul 2012, at 06:04, Bryan Jones wrote: Hi Folks, I guess this comes as no surprise, but it seems the folks at Adobe have decided not to make FLash Player accessible on the Mac after all. Adobe made a big deal back in March of 2010 when they announced their intention to make Flash Player accessible on Mac, Linux Windows. The promise has gone unfulfilled on the Mac and this evening an Adobe representative posted the following as part of a reply to a blog comment: Begin quote from Adobe representative As far as the accessible version of the Flash Player for the Mac, we announced at CSUN about a change in focus for the Flash Player – the Flash Player focus is on casual gaming and video – and the current guidance is to use native controls rather than embedding them within the Flash Player. As a result, the plan to deliver a Flash Player for the Mac with accessibility support was suspended. End quote from Adobe representative I guess the silver lining here is the fact that Adobe mentions native controls which I hope means something potentially more accessible. Link to the full blog post, which is not specifically addressing Flash Player. The quote comes from the comments section. http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2012/06/ruling-on-accessibility-and-the-ada.html#comments Link to Adobe's March 2010 post announcig the good news about forthcoming Flash accessibility: http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html Bryan --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Adobe suspends work on accessible Flash Player for the Mac.
Lets all thank Steve Jobs and Apple for the demise of flash. Apple didn't want it on IOS and if you are a web site that wants to reach the widest group of people, you don't use flash. Using flash makes it so everyone with an iOS device can't view your site. It is my understanding while flash works on Android it is slow and not a good user experience. By works, i'm refering to sited users, not sure if flash is accessible on Android. On 7/13/2012 3:27 AM, Chris Moore wrote: I personally think Adobe Flash will vanish within the next 5 years. Adobe have already stopped developing it for Android and it never arrived on iOS. I was surprised to see Microsoft built support for it into IE 10 for Windows 8. I expect HTML5 to replace many of the features that we came to expect from Flash. I have uninstalled Flash from my Mac altogether, which means I don't get to see as many annoying ads and plus you can use YouTube via HTML5 now. Oracle are another company moving away from Flash, so I honestly think Flash is doomed. Chris On 13 Jul 2012, at 06:04, Bryan Jones wrote: Hi Folks, I guess this comes as no surprise, but it seems the folks at Adobe have decided not to make FLash Player accessible on the Mac after all. Adobe made a big deal back in March of 2010 when they announced their intention to make Flash Player accessible on Mac, Linux Windows. The promise has gone unfulfilled on the Mac and this evening an Adobe representative posted the following as part of a reply to a blog comment: Begin quote from Adobe representative As far as the accessible version of the Flash Player for the Mac, we announced at CSUN about a change in focus for the Flash Player – the Flash Player focus is on casual gaming and video – and the current guidance is to use native controls rather than embedding them within the Flash Player. As a result, the plan to deliver a Flash Player for the Mac with accessibility support was suspended. End quote from Adobe representative I guess the silver lining here is the fact that Adobe mentions native controls which I hope means something potentially more accessible. Link to the full blog post, which is not specifically addressing Flash Player. The quote comes from the comments section. http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2012/06/ruling-on-accessibility-and-the-ada.html#comments Link to Adobe's March 2010 post announcig the good news about forthcoming Flash accessibility: http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html Bryan --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ -- Join the Mystic Place Community: http://www.mysticplacecommunity.info The home of the Mystic Place blog and podcast: http://www.mysticplace.info Podcast feedback line: 864-MYSTIC4 (864-697-8424) Mailing lists: http://lists.mysticplace.info --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at:
Re: Adobe suspends work on accessible Flash Player for the Mac.
Adobe is also moving away from flash on android and other mobile platforms, hopefully web developers will get rid of flash and move to html 5, that's the real solution here. On Jul 13, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Bryan Jones wrote: Hi Folks, I guess this comes as no surprise, but it seems the folks at Adobe have decided not to make FLash Player accessible on the Mac after all. Adobe made a big deal back in March of 2010 when they announced their intention to make Flash Player accessible on Mac, Linux Windows. The promise has gone unfulfilled on the Mac and this evening an Adobe representative posted the following as part of a reply to a blog comment: Begin quote from Adobe representative As far as the accessible version of the Flash Player for the Mac, we announced at CSUN about a change in focus for the Flash Player – the Flash Player focus is on casual gaming and video – and the current guidance is to use native controls rather than embedding them within the Flash Player. As a result, the plan to deliver a Flash Player for the Mac with accessibility support was suspended. End quote from Adobe representative I guess the silver lining here is the fact that Adobe mentions native controls which I hope means something potentially more accessible. Link to the full blog post, which is not specifically addressing Flash Player. The quote comes from the comments section. http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2012/06/ruling-on-accessibility-and-the-ada.html#comments Link to Adobe's March 2010 post announcig the good news about forthcoming Flash accessibility: http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html Bryan --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
