[thelist] Question of Accessibility

[Martin Burns]

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On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 10:19  pm, James S. Huggins (Evolt) wrote:

> I am looking for someone who can tell me with some authority whether
> this
> site is "accessible" or not
>
> http://www.lmaeronautics.com/palmdale/lerc/index.html

Well the front page isn't too bad - you've got a tab order & highlight
working, and the invisible links can be accessed with lynx (I don't have
HomePageReader or equiv installed on this machine).

Once you get down into the sub-pages, you've still got the keyboard
access (good), but as you're linking to swfs, not to html pages
containing swfs, it goes a bit pear-shaped for the links in lynx.

You're using Flash MX?

Having a paper form to print out and write on is a bit problematic, but
it all resizes nicely under IE5/Mac - I wonder if it prints larger too?
Print Preview seems to think so, so I'll accept that.

Summary - what I can see on this setup is good for Flash. I'm still left
wondering why one wouldn't do this with HTML which would provide *all*
the hooks to *all* UAs, and with likely lesser download times...

Cheers
Martin
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