Hi!

Just had a very interesting email contact from a web site I manage. The user
is blind and can not 'see' the flash buttons that trigger my audio samples. The
screen reader obviously can't read them.

Is there a way to make the Wimpy player Flash button somehow accessible so a
screen reader can recognize it and I can indicate to play the sample?

The code I am using is attached.

Thanks for any you can give!



<!-- START WIMPY BUTTON: Standard HTML -->
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=7,0,0,0" id="wimpybutton104" width="25" height="25">
<param name="id" value="wimpybutton104" />
<param name="width" value="25" />
<param name="height" value="25" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="flashvars"
value="theFile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enatalie%2Dbrown% 2Ecom%2Faudio%2Frandom%2Dthoug
hts%2Fthings%2Dthat%2Dyou%2Ddo%2Emp3%0D&amplayin gColor=550A34&amp;arrowColor=F
9F2E0&amp;grinderColor=4E2F1B&amp;theBkgdColor=5B0 000&amp;rollOverColor=000000&a
mp;buttonStyle=square" />
<param name="src"
value="http://www.natalie-brown.com/audio/wimpy_button.swf" />
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
id="wimpybutton104" width="25" height="25" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" loop="false"
menu="false" quality="high" wmode="transparent"
flashvars="theFile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enatalie%2Dbr own%2Ecom%2Faudio%2Frandom%2Dt
houghts%2Fthings%2Dthat%2Dyou%2Ddo%2Emp3%0D&ampl ayingColor=550A34&amp;arrowCol
or=F9F2E0&amp;grinderColor=4E2F1B&amp;theBkgdColor =5B0000&amp;rollOverColor=0000
00&amp;buttonStyle=square"
src="http://www.natalie-brown.com/audio/wimpy_button.swf"></embed>
</object>
<!-- END WIMPY BUTTON: Standard HTML -->

There are a Accessibility feature in Flash where you can set some things like
name, description and tabindex and sush that should be accessible by
screenreaders. But you set it inside flash and not in the HTML object code.