It's been a while since I've dealt with the issue of screen reader accessibility and UFO insertion. I thought I remembered ours being screen reader accessible until using window mode: transparent.
Here's a blog post about our solution. http://www.last-child.com/make-flash-accessible-to-screen-readers-in-transpa rent-window-mode/ The flash movie is no longer on Yahoo Tech Ted -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Per Allan Johansson Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] long description and its implementation Quoting Steve Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Screen readers do not read Flash content that is embedded using unobtrusive > techniques such as SWFObject. I expect they would read the content that is > supposed to be replaced, but I have never encountered an implementation > where there was any alternate content. Does anyone have an example I can > check? http://www.fruhagen.no/page?id=889 The leftmenu is a big flash. The site was blind to Google, but in the replacement div I also print the sitemap as plain html. Google was happy and the site was open again :) <div id="swf-leftmenu"> <ul> <li><a href="page?id=889" title="Forsiden">Forsiden</a></li> <li><a href="page?id=989" title="Meny">Meny</a><ul> <li><a href="page?id=990">Bordbestilling</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="page?id=984" title="Hva skjer hos oss">Hva skjer hos oss</a><ul> <li><a href="page?id=985">En fin side, noe skjer</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="page?id=977" title="Jobbe hos oss?">Jobbe hos oss?</a><ul> <li><a href="page?id=978">Jobbe hos oss?</a></li> <li><a href="page?id=979">Ledige stillinger</a></li> <li><a href="page?id=986">Kontakt oss</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="page?id=971" title="Om Fru Hagen">Om Fru Hagen</a><ul> <li><a href="page?id=976">Fakta</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="page?id=980" title="Bildegalleri">Bildegalleri</a><ul> <li><a href="page?id=981">Bildegalleri</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="page?id=973" title="Sidekart">Sidekart</a></li> <li><a href="page?id=975" title="Feilside">Feilside</a></li> <li><a href="page?id=991" title="start">start</a></li> </ul> </div><script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('binary?id=44180', 'leftmenu', '223', '545', '9', '#efefef'); so.addParam('wmode','transparent'); so.addVariable('XMLfeed', 'page?id=965%26pid=889'); so.write('swf-leftmenu'); </script> Work just fine as a good replacement. I should really update my css to make it a little better to look at if the flash fails! I made the same deal here: www.fridays.no -- Per Allan Enonic ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
