'Accessibility' Category
Google indexing text in Flash
Interesting blog posting with subsequent links here. Further blog posting here.
Google sitemaps now do video
Very useful addition to the sitemap protocol. Read about it here, do something about it here.
Microsoft removing Eolas “click to activate” behaviour
If you’ve worked with Flash and Internet Explorer within the past few years, this will be a godsend. It should have accessibility benefits too, as sites which aren’t embedding Flash via JavaScript won’t have to click into content anymore.
Stupid ruling in the first place. Another example of money coming before the best interests of the […]Flash subtitle creator
I’ve been messing around with captions within Flash CS3 recently, but one of the things I thought was a little annoying was creating the timed text XML itself. Previous searches on the net didn’t seem to highlight any decent free caption creators, but then today I discovered the Subtitle Creator on Subtitle Horse’s website.
While I […]Font embedding in Flash CS3 + initial thoughs on Yahoo’s Flash Developer Center
Yahoo! have launched their Flash Developer Center, and among the interesting articles and downloads is this article about runtime font embedding in Flash CS3.
It looks like embedding fonts might be a hell of a lot easier in the latest version of Flash. Anyone who’s dabbled in Flash and non-standard system fonts knows it’s been a […]Yahoo! begin Flash blogging
I’m a big fan of Yahoo’s User Interface Library efforts, and now it seems they’re going to open up a lot of their Flash stuff (including best practices on accessibility).
More info here.Adobe Live 2007
Adobe Live was a two-day event held in Angel on the 5th-6th June which showcased a number of new technologies on offer from Adobe, along with various seminars and talks from industry professionals.
Below are the rough notes I took (more of a brain dump, but I haven’t the time to format it right now).
FlashFlash 9 […]
Flash CS3 video captioning
Flash needs all the accessibility points it can get, so articles such as this are welcome in enlightening both developers and consumers regarding Flash video’s current assessibility status.
Hopefully we’ll see big websites including these features, as otherwise the masses won’t be aware of the accessibility efforts Adobe are making.
In related news, I’m attending Adobe Live! […]Flash accessibility interview
This interview with Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan makes good reading for those trying to work out the general situation regarding Flash and accessibility.
I’ll be keeping an eye on Niqui’s site in future too, as it looks like being a good resource for anyone looking at accessibility in general.FlashAid - screen reader detection
Over at OSFlash they’ve released a tool which aids in the detection of a screen reader (before throwing them tons of AJAX or incompatible Flash). After a quick squint at the code it seems they’ve accounted for Flash not returning correct values for screen reader presence until a few seconds have elapsed, so it looks […]
