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Actually, that's not what we mean at all. As a blind person, I'm damn well aware that no amount of audio is going to convey a vector graphic to me and further, I really couldn't care about the graphic. But, flash is used for much more than that, usually used where it should not be. How about web site navigation, where the entire nav bar is flash buttons? How about media player controls such as play/pause, forward, and backward? On most web sites, these are implemented in Flash. These controls, and not the vector graphics, are what we mean when we say flash isn't very useable.
For the record, this isn't quite true and hasn't been for a few years, but the site has to be coded correctly in order for accessible Flash to work at all... and guess how many web sites aren't coded according to the standard?
He might have also meant that EComStation isn't useable by blind people, I couldn't tell from his message. In that case, as far as I'm aware, he'd be dead right--most of the major operating systems are accessible--OS X, Windows, *NIX with CLI or Gnome but not KDE --but none of the minor ones really are. It's really a shame, as there's a lot of them out there I'd like to play with--Haiku, SkyOS, EComStation, and MorphOS just to name a few. I'd even lie to play with ReactOS, and this should eventually be at least possible once the required API hooks get implemented into it as they will have to be to achieve their goal of full Windows compatibility. OS X does the job for me just fine, but hey I'm a geek and a geek can never have enough operating systems and/or computers on which to mess around.