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Re: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Jamie
Date: Apr 9, 2006 11:50AM

Thank you! I wasn't thinking outside the box of
people who are blind. I'm still using flash, but will
only be using it for computer based instruction for
our employees - I know the software all employees have
installed. But I've been fighting with the "back
button" problem that seems to be inherit in the
software. So he..he.. thanks to you I just added the
following to my draft email which must be politically
correct.:

The usability of the site actually even effects
typical users. For example, check out the usablity of
the "back" button.

The back button in a Web browser is the single-most
used navigation element by ALL users. The back button
does not work on your site. Instead of taking the user
to the previous state of the Macromedia Flash content,
the back button takes the user to the previous HTML
page.

--- Rick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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