[osflash] Introducing FlashAid: Using Flash to make Ajax more accessible

[WIF]

great initiative! thanks!
btw, is 'FlashAid' a *legal* name ? won't Adobe's lawyers suck your  
blood for that ?
;)
Cedric
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> We were having a barbeque on the beach on Saturday night when  
> Jeremy Keith from Clearleft told us of an idea he had had for  
> improving accessibility in Ajax applications by exposing, from a  
> Flash application, the ability to detect whether accessibility  
> features are installed on the user's computer. I had taken this  
> feature for granted and didn't realize that the Ajax world was  
> forced to live without it. Jeremy was surprised that no one had  
> implemented this yet and we agreed that it was not rocket science  
> by any means. In fact, I got a little time today to develop it and  
> the result is FlashAid, which I've released under the open source  
> MIT license on OSFlash!
>
> FlashAid allows JavaScript to check if accessibility features exist  
> on the user's computer by using a hidden (1 pixel x 1 pixel) Flash  
> application. It requires Flash 8 and should be compatible with  
> every browser supported by ExternalInterface (for a full list, see  
> the FlashAid web page.)
>
> FlashAid v0.1 Preview is ready for download.
>
> This is a very early, proof-of-concept release. Please join the  
> mailing list and give us feedback. It would be especially useful to  
> hear from Ajax developers working on implementing accessibility in  
> their applications.
>
> More info on my blog post at http://aralbalkan.com/644
>
> See the FlashAid web site for more information on FlashAid.
>
> Aral
>
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