Best Practices for Accessible Flash Applications

Accessibility is an important topic, especially these times, where our technologies are allowing us to develop User Interfaces in ways never imagined before. Just yesterday we could celebrate Louis Braille's birthday which reminded us once again how important it is to care about disabled people.

Apart from that, there's the Secion 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act which mandates that web content maintained by the federal government must be made accessible to people with disabilities. So if you're in the business of developing websites or applications for the government - or subinstitutions - this could be a welcome addition to your knowledge:

Macromedia released a guide to Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design which explains a lot about the accessibility implementation and technologies Flash containes.