Flash DOM: Interacting with Flash Content from the Document Object Model

摘要

Assistive technologies are often only adapted to emerging web technologies after they are common enough to generate demand for relevant assistive technology. This paper proposes a general approach to speed up and simplify the process of making assistive technologies compatible with innovation on the web by providing hooks to the browser's standard Document Object Model that expose the capabilities of a new technology. In this paper, we will illustrate the utility of this model by applying it to Adobe Flash content, which, despite years of attempts to produce more accessible content, remains woefully inaccessible. We show how this approach enables screen readers that would normally not have permission to read Flash content to access this content, and how it can enable interactivity with Flash content in a modern browser.