Blogging on Web Development, Graphic Design, and Internet Technology

Accessibility in Flash

Accessibility in Flash, sounds like an oxymoron right? it is actually possible to an extent as I found out. When creating for the web one needs to keep in mind the needs of those who are blind, deaf, etc. Often when a blind user, using a screen reader, comes to a flash object on a web page they basically hit a road block. The screen reader cant make sense of the content, can't use any buttons contained in it, or read any text contained in the flash. Flash has given us tools to work around that.

Random # Generator AS3

I recently  created a game that needed a random number generator. Searching the internet, I found many ways to create one. Some seemed overly complicated, but I came across this and it seems to work perfectly, at least for the application I used it in. What I was trying to do was create random behavior for the computer AI when fighting the human player. The way this works is I created a movie clip with all the monster's animations for his different behaviors. so from from