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 > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Amit Karmakar > Sent: Saturday, 18 September 2004 2:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Re: Free Editors > > And speaking of Macromedia itself how accessible is > http://macromedia.com/bin/accessibility.cgi > > Again no <legend> no <fieldset> > > Sorry this is slightly OT > > [snip] > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ > Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge > To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- Regards, Amit Karmakar http://karmakars.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
