Ajax != web 2.0 1.0 = content by web authors. 2.0 = content by website users. 3.0 = constructs by users and software as a service.
So, for web 2.0 there shouldn't be any extra concerns for disabilities, but accessibility on the web has been a joke for much longer than the X.0 concept has existed. Since you likely mean how to do Ajax in a way that is accessible, the simple answer is, if you think it would need a work around to be accessible for the blind, you prolly shouldn't do it for the sighted. What made the web popular in the first place was the ease in which it could be used. There were all of a handful of paradigms users needed to grasp, and really only two to use it. The URL and the link. Today, software on the web is just as bad as software everywhere else. Flashy interfaces and wiz-bang ajaxy no-page-loady devices that act odd due to dubious javascript frameworks like mootools and jquery. So the short answer is to STOP using ajax and flash for the sake of ajax and flash. Need an uploader that can multi-select files and batch upload? Then use a tiny flash tool. And don't screw with what makes the web easy in the first place. This is why I say, if you have to think of a new way to do accessibility, you likely messed your page up for everyone else too. Just remember, cool and usable don't often go hand-in-hand. Sometimes you can make something usable look cool, but you rarely can make something cool usable. Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36539 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
