On Feb 1, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Rob O'Rourke wrote:
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
Nicely put, Rob :)
Oh by the way, one of the site (mandchou.com I think) gave me this
error:
"A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash 9 to run slowly. If it
continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive.
Do you want to abort the script (YES no) ".
I think the about message speaks abit about how bad the usability and
accesibility for your eye-catching sites? They are pretty though, no
doubt about it.
tee
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