RE: FLASH: Access technology

[Chris Jester]

What about doing something similar to Microsoft's Agent? You set it so it

does a series of actions and then is done. It can be easily programmed to

speek what ever you like and has the text version with it. Major downside

however, is the fact it is large in size. The install is over 2 megs

Aughhhhh. But if you could do something similar with flash that would be

interesting.


Jester


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At 8:45 AM 12/1/98, Joke Groeneveld wrote:

>I've been asked to 'liven up' our website, but the audience is mainly

partially

>sighted and blind people. This means that whatever idea I come up with, it

>should be accessible via whatever access technology they use. I would love

>to start off by adding some animated buttons to the site, designed with

>the help

>of Flash. Does anyone  out there have experience of Flash and speech

>synthesis software like JAWS or PW Webspeak?


Excellent topic, thanks, Joke.


I can't recall messages here from people using either of those speech

synthesis tools directly with Flash. I wondered, though, what type of Flash

content you have that would need to be converted to speech... could the

text be embedded in the HTML itself?


For "animated buttons", could you be thinking of having a rollover which

announces its destination verbally? If so, then have you worked with the

movie clips in version 3.0 yet? It may be possible to build the interface

you wish entirely in Flash.


I'd second Colin's mention of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, if

you haven't made use of it already. Their own mailing lists are also

available in web archive form... I've done top-level searches of recent

thread topics with terms "Flash" and "Shockwave" without results, but there

may be meat within the messages:

http://list.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/

http://www.w3.org/WAI/


If you come across particular things within Flash that should be changed

for more general access, then we'd appreciate hearing them on the wishlist,

thanks... sending the request to

wish-flashmacromedia [dot] com

 would be great.


jd




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