http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/10/06/will-iphone-flash-applications-be-accessible-with-voiceover/ ...extra! extra!... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:05:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/10/06/will-iphone-flash-applications-be-accessible-with-voiceover/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Lioncourt Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:52:24 +0000 http://www.lioncourt.com/?p=600#comment-146 Jake, You bring up good points, however, based on several comments from various sources, whether or not the Flash applications built in this way will use CocoaTouch controls is quite ambiguous. We're certainly not holding our breath, especialy given Adobe's track record. However, the link provided seems to indicate that these are not apps running in a Flash interpreter. Jake,
You bring up good points, however, based on several comments from various sources, whether or not the Flash applications built in this way will use CocoaTouch controls is quite ambiguous. We’re certainly not holding our breath, especialy given Adobe’s track record. However, the link provided seems to indicate that these are not apps running in a Flash interpreter.

]]> http://www.lioncourt.com/2009/10/06/will-iphone-flash-applications-be-accessible-with-voiceover/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Jake Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:39:20 +0000 http://www.lioncourt.com/?p=600#comment-145 I wouldn't count on having accessibility just because they're native executables. Native executables simply means they are compiled and do not need a web browser or other client to execute them, it does not mean they will use the iPhone OS's native Cocoa Touch GUI toolkit. If they do compile to a native set of widgets then it is likely they will be accessible, but given the way flash works (it never interfaces to native widgets at all) this is extremely doubtful. It is more likely this will result in flash apps like those we see on the Windows platform: a native executable of the flash player with a flash app built into it. Even on Windows, this particular type of compiled flash is inaccessible as it uses no native controls and does not have a web browser to expose the content to the screen reader. I wouldn’t count on having accessibility just because they’re native executables. Native executables simply means they are compiled and do not need a web browser or other client to execute them, it does not mean they will use the iPhone OS’s native Cocoa Touch GUI toolkit. If they do compile to a native set of widgets then it is likely they will be accessible, but given the way flash works (it never interfaces to native widgets at all) this is extremely doubtful. It is more likely this will result in flash apps like those we see on the Windows platform: a native executable of the flash player with a flash app built into it. Even on Windows, this particular type of compiled flash is inaccessible as it uses no native controls and does not have a web browser to expose the content to the screen reader.

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