[thelist] Accessible Flash
Erika Meyer
meyer at up.edu
Fri Dec 1 18:17:37 CST 2000
>
>I'd love to have a critique of it, even if the site is already old
>and the company consumed by another - what did we do right? What did
>we do wrong? :)
>
>http://www.littleblueeasy.com/arcadus/
well, I enjoy the site & the soft on-or-off background music, and the
colors, and the navigation is pretty elegant. It is clear that this
is definitely a place I would NEVER want to work.... (when a company
says up front it expects 40 hrs a week MINIMUM and refers to certain
employees as "Technology Slaves", my brain says SCRAM!" -- I mean,
assuming there is not an excellent on-site child care center, which
is the bare minimum I would expect from an employer who would expect
employees to work like slaves.. but I digress.) ---
***
Regarding the A List Apart article, I thought it was an interesting
one. Too bad about the ALA mailing list.
I think that Macromedia should get some credit for at least trying
for more accessibility; and also it should be recognized that
accessibility is pretty intertwined with the purpose of a site... I
mean, how are you going to make "Once Upon A Forest" or other such
sites really "accessible." In many cases, text just works on
different brain cells than the subtle modulations of color, form,
sound....
It's when these full-on flash design styles get applied to commercial
sites that usability and accessibility become an issue, IMO.
I pretty much agree with the author that accessibility is at best
pretty much an afterthought in all realms of the dot com world.
But there are some companies who don't even pretend to care.
"Anna Lonergan, a spokesperson for The Gap, told [PC World] the
company has no plans to make its site accessible. "We're aware of the
technologies but have no plans to implement them," she said. Asked
why not, she replied, "That touches in the realm of strategy, and we
don't discuss strategy."
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article.asp?aid=17690
bleagh. :-b
Erika
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