Tony
I think you have hit the nail on the head - there seems to be an agenda here
that the reporter on the BBC site has failed to pick up on.
Alex
From: Tony Crockford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [WSG] Flash is more accessible than CSS?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:56:11 +0100
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)
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