[thelist] Flash, usability, accessibility

[Martin Burns]

On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 03:58  am, Erik Mattheis wrote:

>> I think the topics of Flash usability and accessibility are both
>> interesting.  It's a matter of knowing your audience, and deciding who
>> you're going to exclude from the party, or how difficult you're going
>> to
>> make for them to get in.
>
> That's the great thing about Flash: you have almost total control
> over a GUI and can make it anything you want.

Whereas one of the primary principles of designing for the *web* as
opposed to print is being user-centric.

If it's a choice between you having control, and your users having
control, the users are the ones that matter.

>> But I suspect this is the wrong list for discussing Flash at all.  Does
>> anyone know of an alternative list?
>
> There are people with no interest in Flash that will jump in telling
> you you'll be sued if you use Flash, but they can be ignored.

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