RE: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?

[Web Dandy Design]

Hi,   I have just been reading through the various emails on this with interest as I was asked recently for a website with a flash header.   I have always thought Flash was inaccessible. Could it be that this area is moving on?  I checked on the link to Nomensa and found another link within their website: http://www.nomensa.com/resources/articles/accessibility-articles/flash-game.html which maybe of interest to everyone.     Elaine   http://www.webdandy.co.uk   -----Original Message----- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford Sent: 28 October 2006 09:56 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?   Rahul Gonsalves wrote:   > There is no mention of flash being *more* accessible than websites laid > out with style sheets. > > Do avoid quoting articles out of context.   My subject was a question, because I felt that the article made it appear that using CSS was inappropriate and difficult to use for accessibility but Flash held the answers to accessibility issues.   "Website designer, Leonie Watson says: "There's a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that allows you to control the way a page is displayed, such as the colour of the text and background.   However, that's quite a new technology, it's only been around a couple of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of using it. They actually hard code the colours into the web page itself, which means that they can't be overridden by your browser, or OS."     if you were a web designer and you read the article, would you be more inclined to use Flash or CSS?     when I read more about Leonie Watson (head of accessibility at Nomensa) I find that she probably has a vested interest in promoting Flash as an accessibility tool.   http://www.nomensa.com/web_design.html Web Design : Nomensa - Humanising Technology   It's what they prefer to use to design sites.   so the reporter of the article has, in my opinion, presented an unbalanced and one sided view of how to make accessible web sites.   ;o)       ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************   ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************