Rostislav Hristov schrieb: > @Carlos > > I was referring to this thread on Flashcoders: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-February/131886.html > > This seems to be an interesting read: > http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/1568 > > > @Micha > > Thanks for explaining. I have never developed such content and I have > no idea about the problems that may appear. The situation with Flash > and Accessibility is not that great so every option should be > evaluated. > > >
well i have tried (was forced to, kinda) and it made me feel really bad :-) there are tons of problems, if you want to deliver accessible flash pages. think of scalability, color contrasts, videos for deaf people etc. pp. Not to mention to correctly handle plugin usage (think of xhtml-strict pages) explain the users who do not have the plugin why they need it, where to get it, and how to install it. (No: MM / Adobe's explanations not the best to say the least) use preloaders all over the place, explain this again to users (especially to Jaws users, as Jaws tells you already loading states of a page (even flash pages !) :-) ) ... well some things have more to do with usability, but you have to think for those too: mobile-devices, who have no flash-plugin or only f4-alike (yes there are still alot!), or Linux-boxes, or browsers (think of internet-cafes) where plugins are not allowed ... so to the expectable usability-hell through whihch we are all here and then going comes the part of tts. Well thank god my boss is not on this list, so he has no idea that there might be a chance to do all this ;-) And yes i'm a flash lover too, but my daily job is to build accessible websites, and sorry folks, this means too often: no-flash, guaranteed! Flash has too many capabilitys, and if you leave those out which will lead to 100% un-accessibility, it no more worth than html (no: d- and ajax play in the same league if we're talking about usability and accessibility) just my 0.02€ and this wasn't meant to flame anybody, this is just the situation which we face now. there might be better times in future, but i have my doubts that adobe will do anything better than MM. micha _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
