[thelist] flash accessibility/usability

[Erik Mattheis]

I suppose I should explain myself. The site's root page gives the
visitor the option of Flash or no flash ... once they're in, there's
no going back.  Search engines only return results for non-Flash
pages, so that accounts for a few percentages of the no Flash. The
versions aren't drastically different - the Flash version has Flash
navigation in a frameset and also the headlines and page headers are
in Flash. These are the people's choices:

Flash home page: 62.5 %
HTML home page: 37.5 %

other Flash pages: 60.9 %

other html pages: 39.1 %

So a slight, but measurable preference for the Flash version.

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>>  > i can tell that you're implying that this metric
>>  > indicates the users preferred the flash version.  i
>>  > don't know how you're measuring your traffic for the
>>  > flash versions, but the reduction in traffic could
>>  > mean the users are able to find the information
>>  > they're looking for easier/faster/fewer clicks in the
>>  > html version.
>>
>>  or maybe its because one flash file replaces 5 static
>>  images(hits).
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>that would suggest the opposite of what erik was saying -- flash sites
>generate *more* traffic than an html version.
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>i was suggesting that the reduction in traffic to *html* sites could be less
>for the reasons (and more) that i noted.
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