Comments on: Muggle me! Accessible Flash!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:26:08 +0000

I agree, Pat. But I think that the effort and attention to the Flash accessibility – which has always been a black art – justifies some applause. Too often we as a community delight in pointing out shortcomings (and you’re right that the plain jane version of the site is a short-coming) and we fail to praise.

It’s not just the accessibility community, it’s the wider Standards community. Check out all the bitching on the IE blog , even when Microsoft announce CSS bug fixes and PNG transparency.

Pointing out shortcomings in a constructive way as you do (and I hope I do) is one thing, but occasionally the community can be quite vituperative. Many vendors must feel they’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.

By: Patrick H. Lauke

Patrick H. Lauke — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:51:59 +0000

it still pains me to see, though, that it’s an “all or nothing” site with regards to the visual flair and design. you can either have the flash, or you get betsie-like plain text…no in-between. would have been nice to maybe just give the non-flash version a nice, clean xhtml/css makeover that, while being more or less static, still conveys the feel and attention to detail of the flash version. ah well, budgets etc probably got in the way…

By: goodwitch

goodwitch — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:13:20 +0000

My favorite flash accessible site is Zoot Suit Culture You can see a list of accessible flash sites by Bob Regan (my hero). Yum! Yum! Yum!

By: Layla

Layla — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:21:02 +0000

VERY Cool site, so creative and unique!