Accessibility

I find it highly ironic that a page devoted to accessible Flash sites is so lacking in accessibility. While not blind my eyesight is less than ideal. The only way I could read this site was to open it in Opera or Firefox so that I could increase the font size.

As a member of the Guild of Accessibile Web Designers and an instructor of web accessibility I am always looking for good resources promoting accessible web development. Too bad this page is not as accessible as the topic it promotes.

Howdy,

Sorry for the hassle. This is a bureaucratic issue and a problem of omission. I am using our company instance of moveabletype. I can edit my templates but can't easily get to the css. I need to go back to the manager and get my own style sheet. I remeber doing this when I first started the site up. Need to do that again.

Cheers,
Bob

Ok. We cooked up a strategy for me to use my own style sheet. Looks like crap at the moment, but I am playing with the sizes to get them where I want them. Bear with me.

Bob,
We've redesigned our site. Could you please fix the link to the "What Do You Do When You Meet Someone Who Can't See"?

http://www.visionconnection.org/Content/VisionRehabilitation/SupportCentral/FamilyandFriendsCorner/WhaDoYouDoWhenYouMeetSomeoneWhoCantSee/default.htm

Thanks.

Hi Bob,

Can you please amend the link for 'Bristol City Council - Services for the Deaf' to http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/bsl

I realise it doesn't go directly to the Flash page but it will ensure the link doesn't get broken if the structure of the web site changes.

Thanks,

Phil

Hi Bob. My name is Rick. This is funny because I am deaf and would love for all websites to have close captioning. Look at CNN videos. Not captioned :-(

Anyway, let me cut to the chase. I am a Flash developer for IBM. My team wants me to come up with a solution for developing a Flash template that we can use inside of the HTML (the overall deliverable will be done in HTML). At the beginning of the course (HTML), the user will be provided the opportunity to select whether or not he or she wants to view the entire course with the audio or with closed captioning.I was wondering if we have a SWF file that pulls in audio and CC text from a relative location that plays automatically and a file that can pull in audio and CC text from a relative location and play it only when clicked? Is there 3rd party software that would be helpful?

Thank you so much!

A very interesting site of puzzles:
http://uk.geocities.com/oscarlagioia/riddles.html

Wondering if anybody can help me with a flash actionscript problem...

I am having problems with controling the read order in
flash. I'm using this script:

this.instance_name_here.tabIndex = 1;
I've read that static text in the flash movie will
cause the flash player to go back to the

default read order. Also, if each instance in the
movie isn't named and included in the script,

then it will revert back to read order. I'm working
with a flash file developed by someone else,

and I've changed all static text to dynamic text, and
assigned it an instance name. I unchecked

"Make object accessible" in the accessibility panel in
flash, then did not include those

instances in the script, I read that if an instance is
not accessible, then there's no need to

include it in the actionscript. The only thing that I
can think of to explain this is that I'm

missing something. Either there's an instance that I
haven't named and included in the script,

or there's some static text that I haven't changed to
dynamic.

But the script is not affecting the read order. I'm
using flash 8 and I've tried it in flash mx

2004 professional also. No success either way. Also,
just in case it matters, I don't have the

same font installed on my computer that the original
developer used, so I'm substituting with a

similar font.

Has anyone experienced a problem like this? Or does
anyone have ideas of possible solutions?