swipe event broken by embedded swf file

swipe event broken by embedded swf file

I am capturing swipeleft and swiperight event to change pages on a web site... this all works fine unless I have a swf embedded on the page. The swf seems to 'break' the event and it is not firing when swiped on the swf object. Any ideas as to why this would be happening?
 
I am using: $(document).swiperight(function()... and $(document).swipeleft(function()... to capture the swipe event for the entire document.