Re: Silverleight Accessibility

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Dorward wrote:

> Lois Wakeman wrote:
> > Silverlight is an example of a server-side technology that delivers web
> > content - like PHP, CFML, JSP or whatever.
> >
> No, it isn't. It is akin to Flash - a client side technology needing a
> plugin from Microsoft. I've always dismissed it out of hand for
> supporting fewer platforms (both for clients and for development
> environments) then Flash does. I never reached the point of bothering to
> see how accessible the results could be.

as I said I have no experience at all with Silverlight. but in this
case the output, a school website, would need to be accessible and
this includes cross platform access since I would suspect it needs to
be used not only by the students but by the parents of these students.

Schools often ignore the parents of students some of whom probably
have a disability, and they have a right to access their childrens
school website.

(just a side observation, there are hundreds of websites and email
lists for parents of children with disabilities but to the best of my
knowledge there are only two for parents with disabilities, I am sure
there could be a few thousand disertations on this issue)

Bob


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