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Building Accessible Flash Applications: An XML-Based Toolkit

2008; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_54

1611-3349

Paloma Cantón, Ángel L. González, Gonzalo Mariscal, Carlos Ruiz,

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The use of Flash as a web-based multimedia development tool has spread lately. Although a big effort has gone into improving its accessibility, there are still accessibility gaps requiring programming or purchase from another supplier. This makes building an accessible Flash application an ad hoc, complex and time-consuming task. With the aim of lightening the accessibility-related workload, we have implemented a toolkit that helps to create accessible multimedia Flash resources. This toolkit specifies the accessibility features as XML configuration files. It includes a library that works like a wrapper abstracting the logic layer of the different events and iterations from the physical layer. This way, new functionalities can easily be added. Additionally, it has been successfully used to build teaching and teaching support systems.