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Accessibility and Adobe Flash

Accessibility and Adobe Flash

Flash content has its own accessibility challenges, and it is important that Flash content meet the success criteria of WCAG 2.0 in the same way that other technologies are required to meet these guidelines. There has quite a lot of work done, particularly by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and Adobe itself, to create resources that support developers to create more accessible Flash content.

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Low vision people often disregarded online

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An American academic has claimed that the web experience for people who are vision impaired is suffering because they are being mistakenly grouped together with blind people when it comes to accessibility.

In an article discussing the myths about low vision, Wayne Dick, Professor of Computer Science at California State University, argues that advocacy groups, governments, institutions and even the W3C WCAG Working Group focus on the accommodations necessary for people who are blind to the exclusion of the needs of people with vision impairment.

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YouTube captions boost SEO

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Adding captions to a YouTube video can improve your search engine optimisation and increase your audience to include the Deaf and hearing impaired, those learning English and those wishing to view your video without sound (e.g. in a noisy or busy environment).

By captioning your YouTube video, Google can index not only the title, description and tags of your YouTube video, but also the video content. This increases your search ranking, and the likelihood that your video will appear higher in Google and YouTube search results. This also results in more relevant ads in YouTube videos.

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