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Re: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Jamie
Date: Apr 9, 2006 12:10PM

This is a great point to add to my email. I hadn't
realized it! I found two priority one code
violations. But I'm still knew to using flash. Often
I only see with computer based instructions, with a
banner that has some alt text, and on those terrible
intros which normally but not always let you select to
skip it! I use dial-up and I really hate those flash
intros with no way to skip. I usually just go
somewhere else.

--- Martin Pistorius < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> One other thing, none of the links in the content
> are accessible unless you
> can use a mouse.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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/
> >
> > 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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