[SWFObject] Accessibility and Screen Readers

[Geoff Stearns]

it depends on the reader i suppose.

it's been tested with JAWS, and there are no problems there - it  
reads the Flash content and not the HTML content that was replaced.

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/accessibility/archives/2005/08/ 
in_search_of_a.cfm

not sure about the others, but i would think that most modern screen  
readers would work from the browser's DOM, and not the HTML source  
before any Javascript changes.

This is the first I've heard that AJAX techniques are not sec. 508  
compliant - do you have any links that discuss that?


On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Tim wrote:

> Since SWFObject replaces content in a <div>, that would be a  
> problem for
> users of screen readers, wouldn't it? Screen readers, in their current
> versions, cannot detect when page content updates. This is the  
> major reason
> why Ajax is not Section 508 conformant and not accessible to screen  
> reader
> users. I'd like to switch to SWFObject from the Flash Detection  
> Kit, but I
> cannot if it cannot be made 508 compliant. Is there some workaround?
>
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