Siu Lun

I’ve been dealing with some development work lately that surrounds Flash and languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

One thing I’ve had to think about and attempt to tackle is the fact that to embed chinese or japanese fonts. It means embedding a 5mb+ file into Flash.

Even if internet speed is being ramped up by the second, this is still a burden to your average user. It would most likely mean waiting around for 2 minutes or more just to get the fonts downloaded.

So what can be done about this?

We must have a solution one day.

At the moment scouring through the internet yields no result.

There are work-arounds. Like embedding all textual data as images, but it’s not ideal, and it’ll only work to some extent as images are still data intensive. In a site that contains a lot of textual data, this isn’t going to work either.

2032 Error. There appears to still be problems with Flash AS3 (Flash Player 9 rev 124) and IE6 with SSL and no-cache..

I couldn’t find where it was sending these headers… so the fix was rather than removing these headers, I overwrite them with:

header(“Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate”);
header(“Pragma: public”);

I’m currently trying to make beijing.100percentme.co.uk accessible. It is a flash website. Certain parts however utilises html text links, and while I’m testing with JAWs I can read and “click” on buttons. I can’t seem to do so with html text links in Flash (AS3, Flash Player 9).

I can’t find any resources or references on the net on whether I can make html text links in flash keyboard accessible.

I’ve been reading up various accessible flash tips and looking at other accessible Flash site. Such as the JKRowling site by LightMakers – I noticed they don’t have html text links thereby avoiding this problem I’m having…

Therefore… I conclude… it is impossible.

Correct me if I’m wrong. Please!

Update: Hey I found a work around. http://www.majordan.net/test/inlinelinksapp/. Next time I got to read Niqui Merret’s blog comments more carefully… >.>