[WSG] Making Accessible Flash

2007-07-11 Thread Robby Jennings
I'm trying to find some good information about making Flash accessible. When the developer is creating the flash animation they can add alt text and other elements to make them accessible. I'm in a situation where we're hosting externally created flash files on our page. When embedding these fi

Re: [WSG] Making Accessible Flash

2007-07-12 Thread Micky Hulse
Robby Jennings wrote: I'm in a situation where we're hosting externally created flash files on our page. When embedding these files, what is the best method for providing a text alternative? How much text alternatives are we talking here? More detail on what you need would help me. Are thes

Re: [WSG] Making Accessible Flash

2007-07-12 Thread Breton Slivka
There's two approaches, one is to use the Hixie style flash embedding, and include your text/html content nested inside the inner object element. This content is visible to text browsers and google. This is demonstrable by searching for the string: "FAIL (the browser should render some flash cont