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FlashDOM: interacting with flash content from the document object model

Published: 25 October 2010 Publication History

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Assistive technologies are often only adapted to emerging web technologies after they are common enough to generate demand for relevant assistive technology. This paper proposes a general approach to speed up and simplify the process of making assistive technologies compatible with innovation on the web by providing hooks to the browser's standard Document Object Model that expose the capabilities of a new technology.
In this paper, we will illustrate the utility of this model by applying it to Adobe Flash content, which, despite years of attempts to produce more accessible content, remains woefully inaccessible.
We show how this approach enables screen readers that would normally not have permission to read Flash content to access this content, and how it can enable interactivity with Flash content in a modern browser.

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ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2010
346 pages
ISBN:9781605588810
DOI:10.1145/1878803

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Published: 25 October 2010

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  1. accessibility
  2. assistive technology
  3. document object model
  4. flash
  5. screen reader

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