yah if only NFB and ACB would get together to attack adobe's empire of
inaccessibility, that would make for a real good show down! Heather
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Oyen" <eric.o...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition
the only way to get adobe's attention is to hit them in the wallet, HARD.
if all 15 million visually impaired in the US were to join in on a class
action against adobe because of their flash player, that would make a hell
of a class action and really get adobe's attention.
-Eric
On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
I'm glad that at some point Flash may become a thing of the past, but I
suspect it will be several years before it happens. In particular with
respect to higher education. I certainly complained to the university I
attended and made zero progress. The solution was to simply require the
instructor to come up with an alternate assignment, which worked, but is
not addressing the issue. Even the agency I work for uses flash and I have
tried to get them looking for alternatives, but people like flash because
they really do not have to put out a lot of effort to complete a project.
Just my thoughts, but as far as I know Adobe has no plans to make anything
accessible for the Mac despite any petition.
Scott
On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Events are rapidly overtaking adobe and flash in terms of html 5.0. Very
probably once that comes out adobe flash will be able to be put in the
junk software museum and left there as a particularly bad relic for the
future. Another problem for web petitions is those are often used by
spam artists to collect valid email addresses for their own uses.
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Yuma Decaux wrote:
Hey list,
I remember about 16 months ago, i participated in a petition made by
maccessibility in regards to making the flash player accessible.
I remember that they said it would take another 18 months to get that
through. Well, the date is about to be reached, and with all this talk
about flash eating up ressources, battery and being as open as a lidless
jar of cookies, pun intended, i really don't care what they might do and
at which rate, but it would be interesting to know if they have even
gone forward on that.
Just saying this because i've been looking into the lumigo T1 andro?d
phone holding bang and olufsen hardware within, and saught to look into
some of the accessibility inherent to that phone. And flash is probably
prominent.
Another area in which flash is rather ubiquitous are the shockwave
powered online courses.
It's a bit of a frustration not being able to take certain courses
because flash has pasted itself all over the net.
This just makes me reminisce when i was having loads of fun creating
futuristic interfaces.
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