Re: "commercial websites that have adopted symbolic based accessibility"

Andrew,

an initial preview indicated that Camino for instance has a  
preferences method:
Camino: Preferences: Web Features: Content Control: Block Flash  
Animations (JavaScript must be enabled to block Flash)

Blocking flash is little different to blocking images, which many UAs  
provide.

When in the late 80's I built a simple spider to crawl the web and  
search for suitable sites for PwLD my initial assumptions was that  
any page with either a large image or plenty of images would be  
suitable.
I very quickly learnt that what I needed to exclude was pages with  
large amounts of text.

So in that sense, I'd advocate a tool to reduce or even exclude text  
for some users.

just as John finds the audio assault from flash overbearing, others  
find icons incomprehensible and many find text hard to interpret.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd



On 16 Mar 2007, at 15:23, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Yesterday I agreed a t a lunch meeting to file bug reports
> with UA developers to provide a dialogue that enables Flash
> to be disabled.
> When instituted this should meet some of your concerns
> regarding Disney.

Jonathan,
I'm a bit confused as to why you are perceiving this as a significant  
benefit.  Are you also advocating for a dialog to disable SVG?  Given  
that there has been and continues to be active work around accessible  
Flash I'm not sure if you aren't advocating for the wrong thing - in  
some cases developers to need to do additional work to ensure that  
solid keyboard access is available, but there is a good bit that can  
be had for free in Flash also, particularly when using the provided  
Flash UI components.

AWK

Received on Friday, 16 March 2007 16:35:37 UTC