How to drop flash into your web pages in an accessible way.

This was briefly touched on at @media and the method described (by Drew McLellan) on A List Apart was mentioned. I wanted to shout out I know there is a quicker way of doing it… but I was too shy.

I did initially read the article above but I was looking for a quick fix and needed someone to just say “here, this is how it’s done’s. So I did some more googling and came up with this: Credit to: http://damowmow.com/playground/demos/flash/001.html

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="300" height="120"><param name="movie" value="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><!--[if !IE]> < --><object data="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf" width="300" height="120" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"></param><param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).</param></object><!--> < ![endif]--></param></object>
Note: please remove any br ’s from the above.

http://damowmow.com/playground/demos/flash/001.html and view source for the code.
So there you are.