Flash now accessible to screenreaders in Firefox
With the new version of the Flash Player (Flash Player 9, update 3) released on December 3, 2007, besides support for high-definition video, what's even more interesting from an accessibility perspective (besides caption support) is the inclusion of MSAA support for Firefox.
Flash movies will finally be accessible to JAWS screen reader users in Firefox. Even though screen reader users will now be able to access Flash content in Firefox, I doubt this will mark a shift of a portion of screen reader users to Firefox since it isn't as usable with a screen reader as IE is as yet.
Download the latest Flash player
Other slightly unrelated but interesting links :
Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts for JAWS & Firefox/ JAWSAssist hotkey command list pretty old
Mozilla's implementation of MSAA
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Your feedback is really good. The venue and programme list will help me to view the whole schedule, thanks a lot to your active team.
Viresh Pratap Singh — 08 Dec 2007 at 05:31
I did however blog about it for the reason that there was no mention of the official DIAF website on any search engine result pages (SERP)a day before the festival begun. Once I found out the DIAF website through the newspaper and considering its poor search engine optimization (SEO), I blogged about it with a link to the official DIAF website.
This in turn, fortunately, got the DIAF post info on this blog show up in different SERP's in a few hours time on page 1 and those who'd come by here would be able to get the link to the official DIAF website. Also, starting quality outbound linking to the DIAF website from here would help increase ranking for the official website itself.
So I guess accomplishing the goal of blogging about DIAF has gone pretty well. The official DIAF website comes up on the Google SERP in page 1 now.
Inverse [Member] — 09 Dec 2007 at 05:46