With the new version of the Flash Player (Flash Player 9, update 3) released on December 3, 2007, besides support for high-definition video, what’s even more interesting from an accessibility perspective (besides caption support) is the inclusion of MSAA support for Firefox.
Flash movies will finally be accessible to JAWS screen reader users in Firefox. Even though screen reader users will now be able to access Flash content in Firefox, I doubt this will mark a shift of a portion of screen reader users to Firefox since it isn’t as usable with a screen reader as IE is as yet.
Download the latest Flash player
Other slightly unrelated but interesting links :
Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts for JAWS & Firefox/ JAWSAssist hotkey command list (pretty old)
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