On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < bhawkesle...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 13/5/09 04:32, Rebecca Cox wrote: > >> I'm wondering if its possible to embed Flash into HTML, using only HTML >> (no javascript) and for this to be keyboard accessible (HTML and Flash >> content usable by keyboard, no keyboard trap problems, for say A-grade >> list at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/) >> >> Test page: http://reb.net.nz/greed/index2.html >> >> Seems to be fine in IE, but in Firefox you cannot get keyboard focus >> onto the Flash without using the mouse. >> > > I suspect http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1219 is why you can't move > focus into the Flash without the keyboard. > > The more usual problem in Firefox is not being able to move focus /out/ of > the Flash object. > > Just spotted >> >> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/04/firefox_focus_and_actual_links_1.htmlbut >> this sounds as if it relies on the actionscript within the Flash itself >> being written in a particular way, and possibly on the javascript used >> to embed the flash into the HTML page. >> > > Interesting, hadn't seen that before. > > I'm not sure the technique is dependent on how you embed it, but it does > look dependent on the JS DOM focus() method to move focus out of the Flash > object. > > So I'd suggest the answer to your wondering is no. :( > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > Thanks. With a bit more tinkering (removing seamlesstabbing attribute and adding tabindex) I can get the focus into (but not out of) the Flash object. Cheers, Rebecca > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
