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If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines.
Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me
Use WAI's guidelines to make your site accessible
To improve usability of Web sites for people with disabilities, one group has created guidelines for developers. See how these guidelines can help you develop a more usable product.Many developers don't realize that there is federal legislation that addresses accessibility standards for disabled individuals in the procurement and use of...
Compliance with the WAI Accessibility Guidelines is within reach
The Internet, through the interface of the World Wide Web, has become an important factor in
When developing web sites, making them as accessible as possible is crucial, both to people with different kinds of disabilities as well as to all kinds of different devices, web browsers and screen readers etc.
Why? Out of respect for the user, while making the web site available to as many users as possible.
You need to be aware of the fact that the web site will not look the same to all visitors, not all UAs handle CSS and other things. The solution isn’t to code in HTML 3.2 and avoid using CSS and JavaScript, since that’s just plain dumb.
If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines.
Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me a site that handles the