Yes the “specs” are supposedly open, and there are FOSS implementations but I’ve yet to see one that works, and is portable. I found quite strange the website for Unadev (french association for blind and visually impaired) have a big “f” logo as partner… (for those who can’t see it’s just a browser with a plain white page :p)Ĭlueless “web” designers putting “skip flash” links inside the flash themselves don’t help either… So I’m sorry but Adobe might say what they want regarding accessibility, but as a non-blind using BeOS and Haiku it’s definitely not accessible for me: Indeed, I’ve still yet to see any accessible flash… besides, the fact that it requires a plugin that is proprietary makes it impossible to use on some platforms, that is it is 100% unaccessible there, regardless the efforts Adobe might have put in it. OS X does the job for me just fine, but hey I’m a geek and a geek can never have enough operating systems and/or computers on which to mess around.
#.swf player for mac full#
I’d even lie to play with ReactOS, and this should eventually be at least possible once the required API hooks get implemented into it as they will have to be to achieve their goal of full Windows compatibility. It’s really a shame, as there’s a lot of them out there I’d like to play with–Haiku, SkyOS, EComStation, and MorphOS just to name a few.
In that case, as far as I’m aware, he’d be dead right–most of the major operating systems are accessible–OS X, Windows, *NIX with CLI or Gnome but not KDE –but none of the minor ones really are. He might have also meant that EComStation isn’t useable by blind people, I couldn’t tell from his message.
These controls, and not the vector graphics, are what we mean when we say flash isn’t very useable.įor the record, this isn’t quite true and hasn’t been for a few years, but the site has to be coded correctly in order for accessible Flash to work at all… and guess how many web sites aren’t coded according to the standard? How about web site navigation, where the entire nav bar is flash buttons? How about media player controls such as play/pause, forward, and backward? On most web sites, these are implemented in Flash. But, flash is used for much more than that, usually used where it should not be. As a blind person, I’m damn well aware that no amount of audio is going to convey a vector graphic to me and further, I really couldn’t care about the graphic. How exactly do you convey vector graphics and video to blind people? It’s not really Adobe’s fault that you can’t…Īctually, that’s not what we mean at all.
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