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How Accessible is your Flash?

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Recently I was looking into Continuous Integration and as you do I started thinking of all the automation I'd like to integrate in an ideal world. One of them was running accessibility tests. As this is a bit of an unknown subject to me, I thought the ideal time arose to learn more on this topic and not to just accept the vanilla response that Flash is accessible.

UML we heart you

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Chances are you've heard of the term or read some tutorials on how to use these diagrams to help with documenting your thought process when building a slick Flash project. I basically only wanted to share a little gem I've recently discovered but ended up writing propaganda. I digress.

I like black.

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Maybe you've guessed it but keeping with my black theme I've utilised my spare time to design a new set of Eclipse icons and splash screen. What I haven't had time for was writing some script to install these on different OS' but my guess is you will figure it out.

FDT 3.2 with MXML support

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Looks like my XSD4MXML tutorial post was like so 1999 'cause the boys over at FDT delivered the beta release 3.2 with MXML support the 13th of March already. I can't keep up these days. What are you waiting for? Get it now! 

XSD4MXML

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For those of you who want to get some MXML support in FDT I thought I'd share this little tutorial. I can't take credit for this as it was the guys from FDT who pointed this out at recent visit to LFPUG and Adobe MAX Milano way back in 2008. Lets hope we get FDT to support MXML natively so this isn't required but until then here goes. A small caveat, this will probably not work in Flex 4 as I remember them removing the mx namespace for the framework.

Creating View Source with Ant

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This is a simple Ant script that will transform your code into an HTML equivelant which you can target with a context menu item to generate a "View source" like page. Works well with Eclipse and FDT as you can execute the script post compilation. I've included some nice Kuler skins but feel free to use, abuse or misuse.

MXML + ANT + ASDOC = And then some

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I'm currently working on a project of which the source will be distributed across the globe. So I want my code to be nice and tidy and send over some HTML docs to show off. Only problem is it's a Flex project and I've been out of touch with Flex for a while. As I don't use Flex Builder, getting ASDoc to work ended up on the things-I-will-sort-out-later-pile. For this project however, it was a requirement. So no easy way out.