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Re: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Rick
Date: Apr 8, 2006 11:20AM

On 8 Apr 2006 at 8:52, Jamie wrote:
> We at the division should not
> care about the accessiblity of a site that we contract
> for. So please look at the site. Tell me if I am
> wrong about accessiblity. Suggest ways to make it
> accessible if I am correct about the flash only site.
>
> http://www.floridablindservices.org/

It's not just inaccessible to blind people -- many
others with various degrees of visual impairment would
struggle to read it, but they probably won't bother.

The text (definitely too small for some) can be resized
in Opera, but not in Firefox or MSIE. The narrow scroll
bar and tiny scroll arrows are impossible for anyone who
has poor wrist/hand/finger control or relies on
assistive tech.

The screen I am looking at now tells me that "Firefox
prevented this site from opening 7 popup windows", but I
have no idea how, where or why?

There is nothing to tell me which tab I have opened, as
the tab itself merely jumps up and down, with no
subsequent clue.

I don't know if Flash is necessarily inaccessible. Maybe
it depends also on the skills of the designer. To me, it
looks like the work of somebody who is learning on the
job and needs some help.


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