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There is an issue with the our legacy content player, which is written in Flash Actionscript 1 & 2. This player behaves fine in most browsers on most platforms, but in IE10 on Windows 8 it doesn't work properly.

Internet Explorer 10 Version: 10.0.9200.16688 Update Version: 10.0.9 (KB2870699)

Windows 8 Pro

This seems to because of the Flash engine's Accessibility object using the Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) API to detect the presence of Screen Readers. This detection is creating a false positive on Windows 8 machines and that may be due to the touch screen support on that platform. This doesn't appear to be occuring with Chrome or Firefox on the same platform; however. So I suspect that IE or IE's Flash compenent is doing something different than these other browsers.