I'm up to my neck in work trying to get the site for Update Conference up and running but I saw a tweet in my stream from Mark Ford that I couldn't ignore.

Mark had written a blog post about how his wife finds it difficult to use some iOS apps because they do not implement a means to increase text size: (more...)

By default, Flex Builder creates inaccessible SWF files.

Bad decision. This needs to change.

Enabling accessibility features for The GAE SWF Project resulted in an 8KB file size increase in the SWF file. I can live with that. Creating inaccessible SWF files to save a couple of KB is no savings at all.

The Flex accessibility overview page feels woefully outdated and mention Adobe Flash Player 7. We're on 9 now. Let's update these, guys!

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As I mentioned previously, I gave a new talk titled Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges at Highland Fling this week. What follows is a comprehensive live-blog style commentary of the session with slide highlights.
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