Milosz - Your site's opening page took almost three minutes to load on a dialup connection... b'bye.
I gave up trying to view sites after three successive 'you need flash' notices... b'bye. Judging by what I (finally) saw on your opening page I would guess that the listed pages are quite beautiful but I'll never know. Do flash designers congratulate their clients on being willing to give up a significant proportion of their possible web-related profits for the sake of art (through sites not being accessible, or simply too slow)? I love beautiful sites - but I have to be able to see them before I can appreciate them. -m On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 20:06 +0000, Rob O'Rourke wrote: > Milosz A. Lodowski - New Media Designer wrote: > > Christian in your opinion - those sites are inaccessible... without > > any argues > > I cannot agree so that's why I've asked... > > > > Accessibility is making a site available and usable to the widest > possible audience, on as many user agents as possible. A lot of the > sites you've picked are pure flash, while these can be made somewhat > accessible (e.g. making the text selectable and perhaps some text > resizing options, not playing loud music as soon as I open the site, I > don't really know much more about making flash accessible...) the point > is these sites will never be as accessible as properly done html/css > sites. I couldn't use most of those sites from my mobile phone for > example, whereas with html a stylesheet with a media type of 'handheld' > could be implemented with no changes to the html. > > Basically you can only use most of those sites if you can see and are > using a mouse. There are lots of levels to accessibility that I'm still > plumbing the depths of. In terms of the web > usability/accessibility/code/design all need to work together in the > right balance because its kind of an omni-media. You can't lump it into > any one category other than 'web'. > > And, like Christian says I'm not sure what you're asking this list for > with regards to those sites or your idea... Do you want to discuss web > standards and accessibility with regard to those sites? or do you just > want to know if we think they're pretty/usable? > > What is your opinion on web accessibility? > > Rob > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
