I was at a Seminar conducted late last year when Bob Regan was down.
http://www.markme.com/accessibility/ That page is the same today as it
was then. I did hear the same rant too but sorry to say (while I have
nothing against Macromdeia) there focus is not so much accessibility
or comparitively less to - lets say, promote Breeze, Contribute, Flex
yada yada.. I am not saying they are bad but I have heard too many
promises being made. Although, its good to see that Flash has advanced
in that content.
And again this is not to berate Macromedia. I am sure they are doing a
lot of work in related fields. But my take is if they were really that
much more into accessibility and really concerned they may have been a
smidgen more thoughtful about the top level pages at least.
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:43:03 +1000, Michael Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not entirely Off topic. At the MXDU conference last year, Sean
Cornfield who is the Macromedia webmaster, said that they're gradually
working towards standards compliance and accessibility. He said they are
taking it seriously and whenever they work on a part of the site, they bring
it up to more modern standards. But there are more than 40,000 pages on the
site, so it's no trivial task. A lot of the pages are rarely visited
archived pages, so it's a big question whether it's worth the effort to
update some of them.
Macromedia are concerned with accessibility issues, and have listened to
people who tell them, for example, that flash isn't accessible. In the new
FlashMX2004Pro v7.2 just released (that's the development tool), there are
improvements specifically to make flash elements accessible.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
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And speaking of Macromedia itself how accessible is
http://macromedia.com/bin/accessibility.cgi
Again no legend no fieldset
Sorry this is slightly OT
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