Comments on: FlashAid version 1.0 released

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Monopolio Podcast .... el podcast más demandado — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:18:02 +0000

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By: Kid666 Blog » Blog Archive » Web Standards Group London - Accessiblity

Kid666 Blog » Blog Archive » Web Standards Group London - Accessiblity — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:47:30 +0000

[...] I’m glad Niqui talked about FlashAid. Aral and Jeremy did a fabulous job. I posted some comments on how I would like to see Flash Aid used already, but I look forward to seeing what the community thinks. [...]

By: aral

aral — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:57:14 +0000

Hey Tom,

I think I’m going to use SWFObject to check for Flash and if there isn’t Flash insert an off-screen AJAX warning into the DOM.

Aral already had! :P

You can use the failure callback for this. FlashAid already uses SwfObject to embed the flashAid.swf file. If Flash doesn’t exist or is the wrong version, the failure callback will be called. You can handle this any which way you like in the failure handler.

It might be good user experience to insert something off-screen to notify the user that AJAX has been turned off and give them an option to turn it back on if they have JAWS 7.1 or Windows Eyes 5.5 .

Can you give me an example what you mean — doesn’t sound difficult to add if it’s going to be useful. I’m assuming this is for those times that JavaScript is off? (Currently, the alternate content in the flashAid div is displayed in these circumstances.)

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:31:24 +0000

Hey Aral,

this is great. I was asking Niqui if we could build something like this, and lo, she said “Aral already had”. You rock.

I’m still tempted to make it a combination solution though, I don’t like relying on one technology to support another. I think I’m going to use SWFObject to check for Flash and if there isn’t Flash insert an off-screen AJAX warning into the DOM. If there is Flash FlashAid can deal with it.

It might be good user experience to insert something off-screen to notify the user that AJAX has been turned off and give them an option to turn it back on if they have JAWS 7.1 or Windows Eyes 5.5 .

By: Introducing FlashAid: Using Flash to improve accessibility in Ajax at Aral Balkan

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:47:35 +0000

[...] This post is out of date: See my post on the latest version of FlashAid (1.0) for up-to-date information. [...]

By: aral

aral — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:35:44 +0000

Hi Luar,

If they have a problem with it, I’ll change it.

I blogged about my reasons for using “Flash” in the name of this: I think it does the Flash Platform good to be associated with it. It can just as easily be called AjaxAid if necessary.

By: luar

luar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:39:55 +0000

I remember Adobe Legal not allow other people using Flash(TM) in their products, check FlashObject(SWFObject) case.