[Accessibility] Flash 9 Update exposes content to MSAA from Firefox [FWD]

Janina Sajka janina at a11y.org
Mon Aug 27 10:22:14 PDT 2007


I wasn't sufficiently clear. I'm not aware whether Reader for Linux
exposes flash. Certainly the Xpdf tools do not.

Janina

Janina Sajka writes:
> Gregory J. Rosmaita writes:
> > Now we just need to sort out those pesky tabbing issues, and see if we 
> > can persuade Adobe to implement AT-SPI support. ;)
> 
> Actually, AT-SPI is implemented in Acrobat Reader for Linux since 7.0, I
> believe. I've not had much luck with Reader myself, but then I haven't
> tried very hard, nor have I tried recently. Except that it doesn't
> expose any structure which might be present in a v. 11.5 pdf, I'm still
> using pdftotext.
> 
> On a related note, I wonder why Adobe doesn't just open source Reader?
> They give it away, why not invite the community into code maintanance?
> 
> Janina
> 
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