Re: FLASH: Flash and Web Accessibilty

[John Dowdell]

Here, try this:

http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/




> I don't know how to make a Flash site meet the guidelines.


A rich-media experience is useful, but is not perceptible by all possible

audience members.


> We use audio files extensively


Audio can be useful for many audience members, but is not perceptible by

all possible audience members.


> our sites are designed for 800x600 and larger


Full-screen displays are useful for many audience members, but may not suit

the needs of all possible audience members.


> how are you making a Flash site accessible to everyone?


Not everyone is on the web, so that goal is difficult. Identifying the

audiences and the message, and figuring out the best way to communicate

that message to each sub-audience, is part of the core design work. (For

special needs you can often design an alternate path, such as an

unformatted text-based representation... that's a way to hit PDAs, for

instance.)


jd





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