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Posted in accessibility, opera, standards on Aug 10th, 2009
A question I’m frequently asked by developers is why keyboard access for the Flash is not fully supported across browsers. Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have problems enabling keyboard users to tab into and out of Flash content while Internet Explorer works fine.
The issue
Plugin support typically needs an API that acts as a doorway [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jan 7th, 2009
It has to be said that I’ve never had more pleasure than working with Barrier Break Technologies (the guys behind India Techshare) when it come to accessible Flash. Working closely with Adobe, RNIB in the UK, Vision Australia and disability organisations and groups all over the world I’d say they have a pretty good handle [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jun 25th, 2008
We’ve been commissioning banner ads to place on other websites recently so I thought I’d share some of the guidelines we work to in-house when commissioning accessible advertising. It’s hard enough to know at the best of times how to deal with content on your site but when it comes to advertising, especially third party, [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jan 8th, 2008
Here are a few tips I’ve cobbled together for producing accessible Flash banner adverts. This is very much written from the perspective of an accessibility person as I’m not a Flash developer as such but I hope it gives some pointers as to what to think about when using banner ads. I’ve also included [...]