I concur with Benjamin. "Try to use Flash only where it is needed. Many rich media sites such > as Google's YouTube use Flash for rich media but rely on HTML for > content and navigation. You can too, by limiting Flash to on-page > accents and rich media, not content and navigation. In addition to > making your site Googlebot-friendly, this makes you site accessible to > a larger audience, including, for example, blind people using screen > readers, users of old or non-standard browsers, and those on limited > low-bandwidth connections such as on a cell phone or PDA. As a bonus, > your visitors can use bookmarks effectively, and can email links to > your pages to their friends." >
I agree, but as I have stated, the idea of accessible Flash is a good concept. Why are we arguing this point? To those that say Screen Readers cannot read Flash in anyway, have you actually used screen readers? Not just one or two, but 10 or more? I have; and I have found out that a good bit allow some Flash accessibility, such as videos and any accessible text. And yes, screen readers and SE spiders/crawlers read/index Flash differently, but screen readers can and some do allow an accessible Flash flv file to play. -- Brett P. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < bhawkesle...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 15/1/09 06:59, Stuart Foulstone wrote: > >> If the text in Flash is accessible SEs will index it. >> >> Search robots are in effect blind readers. >> >> If text in Flash is accessible, screen readers can read it. >> > > The mechanisms provided for search engines and screen readers to read Flash > content are very different, not least because screen readers need to > interact with Flash functionality not just read Flash content. > > However, sensible screen-reader users disable Flash. >> > > Not when they want to listen to videos and audio on the web, they don't. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
