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Adobe plans major upgrades to accessibility support in Flash Player

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Adobe has announced that future upgrades to accessibility support in Adobe Flash Player will enhance accessibility across the three major operating systems: Windows, Mac and Linux. Mac users will particularly benefit from this upgrade, which will result in the ability to access Flash content using VoiceOver, Apple’s inbuilt text-to-speech application.

In a blog post, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Senior Product Manager for Accessibility at Adobe Systems, states that, “[t]he Flash Player will employ IAccessible2 from the Linux Foundation and the WAI-ARIA specification from the W3C to address user and developer needs and to ease interoperability with assistive technology vendors.”

Upgrades are expected to start with the next major release of Adobe Flash Player (following Flash Player 10.1).

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Technology promises a better deal for deaf students

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Hearing impaired students at LaSalle Catholic College, Bankstown, experienced the benefits of Australia’s first Model Classroom designed to maximise their learning in a mainstream setting by using a mix of technologies including captions, launched at the school yesterday.

The model, unique in Australia, aims to set a  benchmark in best practice for meeting the needs of hearing impaired students, combining captions, an Interactive White Board (IWB), a Soundfield amplification system and the student’s own FM devices, supported by Media Access Australia’s database of educational captioned resources, the Accessible Education Database.

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Popular accessibility book now freely available online

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If you are looking for a resource that talks about accessibility in user-centred design (UCD) and gives practical advice about including people with disabilities in the design and testing process, then the freely available Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design might just be for you.

Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design is published by Shawn Henry, who leads the worldwide education and outreach activities promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. 

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NCAM's guide to digital cinema access

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Major American access organisation, the National Center for Accessible Media (part of WGBH), has posted a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) guide covering digital cinema and access.  Whilst NCAM is the creator and distributor of the Rear Window closed captioning system, the FAQ covers all of the caption and audio description play options.   

One of the main points made is that captions are provided in both open and closed form for digital cinema and also work with new technology such as 3D cinema.  For the full range of information you can access the FAQ by visiting the National Center for Accessible Media website. 

 

 

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