Flash and Accessibility

I’m currently developing a website that will contain a lot of video. While building a flash video player I’ve noticed some issues in Flash that should be fixed as soon as possible.

I wanted to use the new AS3 accessibility classes to make a the videoplayer more accessible by providing extra textual information for interface elements when a screen reader is active. So I wrote some code, published my flash movie and enabled VoiceOver. Nothing happened.

After doing some research on the internet, I found out that Flash simply doesn’t support VoiceOver, leaving visually impaired people with a Mac in the cold. As for screen readers, I prefer working with VoiceOver since it comes free with Mac OS X. I think by fixing this problem, Adobe would make a lot of webdevelopers very happy.