The article is by no means comprehensive and the BBC do have a vested interest in selling their efforts at accessibility. But...
I currently do a lot of flash work for the BBC on the Digital curriculam Jam project ( https://jam.bbc.co.uk/HomeElevenPlus.aspx?TBReturnUrl=%2fAuth%2fWelcome.aspx&pn=GB-ENG&pl=en-GB&psy=year10) and it's worth pointing out that The BBC DO spend a great deal of time, effort and money on accessibility.
The content we are working on is e-learning for kids delivered in the form of games and interactives. These are massive projects and could only really be delivered in flash. The audience for each project is 7-11, 11-14 & 14-16 year olds respectively. To keep a 7 year old entertained while learning is no easy feat and flash allows us to create games that house that learning. Its all about the audience!
An incredible amount of work is done from the planning stages to ensure the content is accessible in terms of tab groups, text sizing, speach text, captioning and just as importantly visual design. It's not perfect and not all suppliers do as much as they could but it is a valid platform for the content. Sadly, there are not generally alternative versions of the content but in a certain sense the content would be deemed boring by the audience if it was.
Im by no means an expert on flash and accessibility, we have other people for that but flash is not always evil and those are my two cents.
Cheers
Pete
On 10/30/06,
russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> or a direct approach?
>
> http://www.talentnetwork.co.uk/team/team_katie.html
It is a great idea to rally together to let people know about the problems
in the BBC article/report. However, we should be very wary of directly
criticising or attacking any individual. Apart from the moral/karma issues,
it is less likely to get a positive result :)
Thanks
Russ
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