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I didn't mean to attribute that quote to you.
My point was that Flash content can be made accessible, but people (like babyjenniferLB) still claim that it can't.
As you probably know, "accessible" does not mean it has to automatically work with an inexpensive, cross-platform, off-the-shelf screen reader. It means the content can be accessed by vision-impaired, hearing-impaired, or mobility-impaired users.
Flash content can be made to do all of the above (on Mac and PC). But like regular HTML/CSS content, its the responsibility of the developer to make it so.

I did not claim it can't, i stated it wasn't on any site i have used in the past decade never have i been able to read the text without having someone read it to me.
 
Personally, I don't get what's the big deal about Flash vs HTML5. If I were to do an animation intensive app such as games, I will most certainly pick Flash as my tool. The time I saved on the toolset, plus the optimization for animation on it, will definitely make development faster and easier. If I were to do an app where graphics and animation does not play a big role, I will pick a good javascript framework for it. I'm flexible in picking the best tool.
 
Personally, I don't get what's the big deal about Flash vs HTML5. If I were to do an animation intensive app such as games, I will most certainly pick Flash as my tool. The time I saved on the toolset, plus the optimization for animation on it, will definitely make development faster and easier. If I were to do an app where graphics and animation does not play a big role, I will pick a good javascript framework for it. I'm flexible in picking the best tool.


What all those Flash haters and HTML5 zealots fail to realize is that HTML5 will only be as good as the authoring tools that will be available for it, because designers don't want to waste their time with manual coding.

And when last I looked, the market for such authoring tools was owned by.... Adobe. The very company that owns Flash.

I seriously doubt that Adobe will release an HTML5 authoring tool that is so good that it will effectively kill their own platform Flash. We might see Dreamweaver and Flash with strong HTML5 support in one way or the other, but we will certainly not see them killing Flash.
 
Then I'd say that the Mac is the wrong platform for you. You'd be better off with the world wide industry standard, and that is Microsoft Windows.

That's quite the ignorant comment there. OSX has some of the best built-in accessibility features of any OS out currently.

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html
http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/11/19/mac-os-x-accessibility-a-success-story/

I don't need the accessibility features, but do make use of Voice Over from time-to-time and find it great. Trying to imply that just because the accessibility features don't work with poorly-developed Flash pages, a person should switch to Windows is simply asinine.
 
Doesn't the Universal Access stuff built into Mac work for accessibility with Flash? I can zoom the screen even with Flash content to make the text bigger. I can invert the colors of the screen and make them B/W which works with Flash content. I realize this doesn't cover screen reading but this should work at least with hybrid sites where Flash is more or less used as jpegs on steroids and the text content is still HTML.
 
Doesn't the Universal Access stuff built into Mac work for accessibility with Flash? I can zoom the screen even with Flash content to make the text bigger. I can invert the colors of the screen and make them B/W which works with Flash content. I realize this doesn't cover screen reading but this should work at least with hybrid sites where Flash is more or less used as jpegs on steroids and the text content is still HTML.

Aye the built in stuff is terrific for most websites. I can happily use Flash games or movie players. But here possible i would prefer to play back the video in something like quicktime where the controls work with audio commands.

Flash poses so many issues, i tired developing it myself and i know text can be displayed as selectable HTML text with Actionscript 3 but no one seems to use it.

Then there is ofcourse no reason to use flash for things can have better alternatives, Flash would be great if put back to animations or even if it evolved into a tool for creating Canvas suitable animations Adobe are really missing the boat in my opinion to not evolve Flash or a similar tool into the killer canvas tool for animations.

I believe firmly in the right tool for the job and i believe Flash is great for animations but it should not be used for entire user interfaces.
 
This does then bring me back to the question I had earlier. What accessibility options do the Iphone or Ipad have? Do they have a screen reader? Can you invert the pages or make the text larger on a Iphone? Do the movies played through quicktime function with voice commands?
 
This does then bring me back to the question I had earlier. What accessibility options do the Iphone or Ipad have? Do they have a screen reader? Can you invert the pages or make the text larger on a Iphone? Do the movies played through quicktime function with voice commands?

Why don't you try them and find out.
Quick google and it seems to have the same support as Mac OSX
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
 
flash vs html5

Like many I got sick of at 320p video taking up 80% of my cpu when filling the screen with the same video using about half that in html5. No wonder apple have bagged it so much.

but now I cant go fullscreen nor view videos higher than 320p in youtube, has anyone found a fix for these?

As I dont really care about anything else that flash offers, if youtube plays things smooth, has fullscreen and HD content I will be happy.

any suggestions please!
 
I've been around since the Macromedia days and dropped Flash like a bad habit the moment the Vice President of Adobe came out and said Mobile Flash will no longer be developed in lieu of better technology, namely HTML5. What was that, like three years ago?

With all the new tech we have available to us today, there is really no need to write and maintain multiple coded versions of a product. There REALLY is no reason to put your eggs in a proprietary basket. I write code once for mobile devices, browser based products AND desktop environments. Although I have been dabbling with Swift and SpriteKit. I'm such a hypocrite. Ignore everything I say.

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This does then bring me back to the question I had earlier. What accessibility options do the Iphone or Ipad have? Do they have a screen reader?
Yes.
Can you invert the pages or make the text larger on a Iphone?
yes & yes
Do the movies played through quicktime function with voice commands?
Yes
 
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