Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-17 Thread James Ellis
Hi The first thing you should do, and it's probably a topic for project decision maker/manager is to ask the question... if we need a skip link then is the intro useful in the first place?. If the intro describes the company somehow then serve the homepage and provide a link to the flash piece on

Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-17 Thread heretic
hi there, I'm wondering if a site would be more accessible if the flash intro (never mind how it's a bad idea to have a flash intro!) skipped automatically if the viewer had seen the intro before. I'm also wondering if I could detect browser for the sight impaired and skip the intro then

[WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-16 Thread Lisa B. McLaughlin
I'm wondering if a site would be more accessible if the flash intro (never mind how it's a bad idea to have a flash intro!) skipped automatically if the viewer had seen the intro before. I'm also wondering if I could detect browser for the sight impaired and skip the intro then too. I'm new to

Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-16 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Lisa B. McLaughlin wrote: I'm also wondering if I could detect browser for the sight impaired and skip the intro then too. Blind and visually impaired users use the same browsers everybody else uses. JAWS and other screenreaders simply sit on top of the entire OS, so they use standard IE and

Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-16 Thread Kvnmcwebn
I have always used a manual skip intro button on intro flash animations. Maybe flashkit.com would be a better source for finding an auto skip method method. -Kevin ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-16 Thread Jorge Laranjo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there Lisa! I think you can use the flash accessibility enabled! Check this feature in http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flash/ - -- Atentamente, Jorge Laranjo site http://thetaoofwebdesign.tk/ email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] skip flash intro question

2005-04-16 Thread Karl Brightman
I had to do this for a job once and all i used was an anchor in the flash movie and then called the anchor up when sum1 went back to the main page. Hope that helps. -Karl Brightman Jorge Laranjo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there Lisa! I think you can use the flash