[Wylug-help] linux and flash

[Shaun Laughey]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:22 +0100, Nick R wrote:
> Last time I investigated using flash (a few years ago), it was a 100%
> complete no go or provide a non-flash html text alternative.
> 
> With flash 8 there is an effort towards accessibility, check
> http://www.adobe.com/resources/accessibility/flash8/ but I have not
> touched flash for a long time.
> 
> Cheers, Nick.
> 
> On 22/05/07, Dave Whiteley <d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 May 2007 21:48, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > a very simple question.... what do people use to develop flash
> > > applications in linux? Thanks.
> > >
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> > A smug answer is that people with the good taste to use linux do not develop
> > in Flash, however a quick Google points me at
> > http://osflash.org/linux
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to develop acceptable accessibility in a site using flash?
> >
> > Dave


Yes, accessibility works to an extent in flash. Within flashes own
limited accessibility definitions. There's a brief discussion on Adobe's
site.

However many sites I've worked on using flash have used keyboard
navigation and zoomable text. 

As for searchable - no. 

As for accessible using alternate browsers - no. 

Overall flash is a poor substitute for nice hard text but if you have to
develop in it then Linux is a perfectly viable development platform as I
said we found all our best flash was produced via Eclipse with no
Macromedia flash timeline interface stuff to screw it up.

Shaun Laughey.