There have been some responses to the initial blog post about this:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html
but the specific bit from Andrew Kirkpatrick is positive:
"Yes, the plan is to utilize the OSX accessibility API support,
resulting in the ability to access to Flash content using VoiceOver."
How this gets done is a bit unclear but they did add a bit more about
the ARIA in Flash stuff:
"ARIA in Flash. The Flash Player does already support a larger number of
roles and states than are present in plain HTML. Many of the additional
roles that are available via ARIA are already covered by the existing
Flash accessibiity support. Not all, and the list of roles in ARIA is
expected to grow, so being able to add these to the list that the Flash
Player supports makes sense. Other aspects of ARIA that are of interest
include the LabeledBy, DescribedBy, and particularly LiveRegion support.
Using ARIA conventions within ActionScript and MXML will also simplify
development of accessible applications and take advantage of the ability
to transfer developer skills with ARIA to Flash and Flex development."
So this could be something good someday. Now whether they get it done
before HTML5/css3 takes over will be an interesting race.
CB
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