If I were to give one tip on making links to Flash accessible

[kestrell]

it would be to include a button which the screen reader user can locate and click on, like the buttons labeled "Play" in this article
http://www.flavorwire.com/330988/10-emmy-awards-2012-moments-people-will-be-talking-about?all=1
I think that this is about as much TV as I have watched in the past year, but love those accents! Who is the nice man who reprimands Seth MacFarlane with "That's what happens when you don't come to rehearsals?" I want a sound clip of just that sentence. Also, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is awesome.

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[jesse_the_k]

re: Flash: I don't see a button marked "play". There's a red button with the right-facing "play arrow" in the center of the Flash display. Video controls have changed in the last year or so: most of them have a "hot spot" in the center. Click once to play, again to pause, again to play et cetera. Sounds like this designer used the alt-text "Play" to label that central control. Which is cool! Cooler even would be the "play arrow" *plus* the word PLAY for those of us who don't know what the arrow means yet.

I'm thinking that "nice man" was spliced in: it was so perfectly timed! The writers were so starved for humor that they went for a silly mic rising out of the stage gag. Whoever, I bet it will be a ring tone near you next week.

D'you think that JLD and Amy Poehler had matching gags ready if Poehler won?

[kestrell]

Thanks for the reply on flash accessibility; I'm never certain what is being added or reformatted through the screen reader, or the screen reader versus alt text, and I never remember to try to find out what I experience versus what a sightie might be seeing.

I expect that JLD and her co-conspirator had other skits cooked up: the beauty of really good comediennes is that they manage to make it look so spontaneous. Also, that they often manage to look so "I'm not getting it"; have you ever seen JLD in "My Favorite Year," where a male comedy writer is trying to explain to his girlfriend, played by JLD, how to tell a joke so that it is funny? Now I'm wondering if that is on YouTube...

Sorry about any typing errors: I'm typing under the influence of a migraine. Off to try more possible antidotes.