Just to preface this mini-rant, I've used Flash since version 3, spent 2 years working with Flash to build hollywood movie sites, and still use it on certain projects....
Accessibility in Flash has come a long way, but it is a lot of work to do right. When building a large Flash app the devs spends most of their time rebuilding what a web browser already does... back button, bookmarks, deep linking, tab paths, accessibility, scrolling. It takes a lot of extra work just to get a basic app framework built in Flash that you get for free in (D)HTML/JavaScript. With the advances of (D)HTML/JavaScript for animation and rich interactivity Flash is losing ground in area that used to be solely its domain. The other issue I see is that Flash is a closed platform... you can't learn AS3 by looking at other people's code. This is the best way to lear JS and HTML, and it really the reason for the web's success as a medium. Anybody can learn basic JS, HTML, CSS just by hitting view source. To try your hand at flash you have to buy an expensive piece of software, and then use tutorials that might not show you what you really want to know. I'm not a big fan of Flash, generally I find it's more work to get less. IMHO it's great for video, rich media experience type sites, marketing micro sites... but that's about it. On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:08:53, Cliff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are Flash interfaces still an accessibility black hole? Unless that > has improved substantially, I cannot imagine leveraging it for more > than the niche uses mentioned previously (wrapping media playback, > for example). Even these uses do nasty things to the user experience > like breaking the page's tab path and blocking browser keyboard > shortcuts. -- Matt Nish-Lapidus email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
