flash plugin blind

Solution to Flash accessability problems for blind people

Couple of days after I published a story on Steve, I got contacted totally unrelated by another blind person regarding one of my plugins, Smart Youtube. It turns out that after you use wmode='transparent' in the embed code (which is necessary so that videos do not overlap your images or other parts of design in some cases), the video player controls become inaccessible to screen readers (like JAWS) that blind people use to browse the Internet.
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