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Yeah, that's one barrier right there
Sep. 14th, 2011 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
codeman38http://www.insightintodiversity.com/
Apparently the latest issue of this magazine (viewable through the "INSIGHT Digital Issue" image under the header "Current Issue") includes several articles about barriers to people with disabilities.
Not that anyone who has a disability that prevents someone from accessing Flash would know anything about this, though, because the only way to actually view the articles is through a Flash applet. Without any graceful degradation, either-- if there's no Flash plugin installed, you just see a blank gray screen.
(I have no idea if the Flash-based viewer is screen-reader accessible on Windows, incidentally-- I only have a screen reader installed on Mac OS X, and Flash does not implement any accessibility APIs on Mac. But given that it's also impossible to navigate by keyboard, I seriously doubt the developers paid any attention to accessibility APIs.)
Edited to add: I've e-mailed the magazine to point this out to them. Will let everyone here know if I get any reply!
Edited again to add: I did indeed get a reply, pointing out that a PDF is available on the Previous Issues page. Which, of course, I never would've thought to look at, since I assumed (a) the current issue wouldn't be there, and (b) the other issues would also be in Flash.
Apparently the latest issue of this magazine (viewable through the "INSIGHT Digital Issue" image under the header "Current Issue") includes several articles about barriers to people with disabilities.
Not that anyone who has a disability that prevents someone from accessing Flash would know anything about this, though, because the only way to actually view the articles is through a Flash applet. Without any graceful degradation, either-- if there's no Flash plugin installed, you just see a blank gray screen.
(I have no idea if the Flash-based viewer is screen-reader accessible on Windows, incidentally-- I only have a screen reader installed on Mac OS X, and Flash does not implement any accessibility APIs on Mac. But given that it's also impossible to navigate by keyboard, I seriously doubt the developers paid any attention to accessibility APIs.)
Edited to add: I've e-mailed the magazine to point this out to them. Will let everyone here know if I get any reply!
Edited again to add: I did indeed get a reply, pointing out that a PDF is available on the Previous Issues page. Which, of course, I never would've thought to look at, since I assumed (a) the current issue wouldn't be there, and (b) the other issues would also be in Flash.