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Re: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Martin Pistorius
Date: Apr 9, 2006 4:30AM

One other thing, none of the links in the content are accessible unless you
can use a mouse.

Cheers,

Martin

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From: "Rick" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] need help = accessilbity and flash


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