If you’ve ever done any form of web development, you’ve probably learned to hate Internet Explorer 6. It’s not that it’s not used- IE6 once enjoyed the status of being the foremost browser on the web, and as a result used to set many of the standards by which the web was developed. Unfortunately, it [...]

My colleague (aka running buddy, aka friend, aka fashionista) Andrea Hill and I had a pow-wow a few months back in anticipation of her Accessibility presentation at Spring </br> . Personally, I thought the conversation was a perfect example of how genius occurs at the intersections of knowledge domains, as we were able to take her expertise on Accessibility standards and my expertise in Flash and Actionscript and come up a back-of-the-napkin approach to Flash Accessibility that might just fix all the headaches caused by interfacing with Assistive Technology. Note that this solution does NOT absolve you from designing for visual impairments, hearing deficiencies and so forth- this is a way of interfacing with screen readers.