JAWS 7.1 and Macromedia Flash

[emma...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Has anyone come across any problems with the compatibility of 7.1 and
Flash?

We have a user who has just upgraded from 6 and now it is "jumbling
stuff up" (XP SP2, IE6).

Our flash is added using JavaScript, when the page runs it is embedded
only using the 'object' tag - could this be the problem?

Also we do not use the accessibility features of Flash

Thanks for any help.

M

[Sina Bahram]

If you don't use the accessibility features of flash, then how are you
expecting the screen reader to read anything meaningful?

Also, jaws 7.1 made some changes to the way they handle refreshing content
... This is to help with ajax related sites. They said they improved it, but
it could be a bug.

I will tell you that 7.1 introduces around 30 or 40 bugs, that I counted ...
I stopped counting and went back to 7.0 after that, *grin*.

Hope this helps some?

Take care,
Sina

Hi all,

Thanks for any help.

M

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[emma...@gmail.com]

> If you don't use the accessibility features of flash, then how are you
> expecting the screen reader to read anything meaningful?

i wasn't expecting anything meaningful. i was expecting it to behave
as it did before, which is to move on - not to jumble things around.

> Also, jaws 7.1 made some changes to the way they handle refreshing content
> ... This is to help with ajax related sites. They said they improved it, but
> it could be a bug.
>
> I will tell you that 7.1 introduces around 30 or 40 bugs, that I counted ...
> I stopped counting and went back to 7.0 after that, *grin*.

so do you think it's worth users waiting a while before downloading the
absolute newest version?

> M

[emma...@gmail.com]

> If you don't use the accessibility features of flash, then how are you
> expecting the screen reader to read anything meaningful?

i wasn't expecting anything meaningful. i was expecting it to behave

as it did before, which is to move on - not to jumble things around.

> Also, jaws 7.1 made some changes to the way they handle refreshing content

> ... This is to help with ajax related sites. They said they improved it, but
> it could be a bug.
>
> I will tell you that 7.1 introduces around 30 or 40 bugs, that I counted ...
> I stopped counting and went back to 7.0 after that, *grin*.

so do you think it's worth users waiting a while before downloading the
absolute newest version?

> M

[Sina Bahram]

Usually, no, but 7.1 was very screwed up.

Use 7.0 instead, would be my advice.

Take care,
Sina

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