Re: [orca-list] is flash accessable in linux?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Oh, you can do that sort of thing for Academia and for government 
institutions.  Where it will persist as inaccessible as ever and with 
near perfect impunity is in the corporate world where the audience is 
internal and not the general public.  And, actually, not even academia 
is completely dedicated to accessible flash now that I think of it.  I 
had to drop a physics class last year because of inaccessible virtual 
labs. These labs were, you guessed it, in flash.

Alex M


On 7/12/2012 3:55 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> They may have done it that way for years, but they've not succeeded at
> making the educational opportunity accessible at the same time. To the
> extent that equal access in education continues to be strengthened as a
> legal mandate, they will be pushed to abandon the inaccessible for the
> available accessible option. Courts and stiff fines can be so very
> persuasive.
>
> Janina
>
> Alex Midence writes:
> > Flash is still very much alive in my industry.  E-learning content creators
> > love it for some obscure reason and just about every authoring package out
> > there for stuff like Scorm/AICC and Ims Common Cartridge which are packaging
> > conventions for courseware are just chalk full of flash content.  Tests,
> > simulations, even simple informative content is frequently rendered in
> > flash.  It's dying will take longer than you may think in some circles.  One
> > of the most common ways to make a course is to create a powerpoint
> > presentation and then export it to flash along with assessment content
> > interwoven into it.  It's been done this way for years.
> >
> > Alex M
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> > Behalf Of Krishnakant Mane
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:25 PM
> > To: Kyle
> > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] is flash accessable in linux?
> >
> > Flash also adds a lot of security risks.
> > And html5 and ogg together is such a nice combo that any browser can run it.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
> >
> > On 07/12/2012 10:14 PM, Kyle wrote:
> > > Flash is pretty much dead. I think even Adobe realizes this. This is why
> > they are killing it on mobile platforms now. They will likely kill it
> > completely sooner rather than later. Well, I never liked Flash anyway, and
> > HTML5, Ogg Vorbis and WebM have combined to make Flash completely
> > unnecessary for my web design needs. Free and open formats FTW!
> > > ~Kyle
> >
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