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accessibility_fail2010-09-15 10:15 pm
codeman38) wrote in accessibility_fail2010-09-15 10:15 pm
No wonder advertisers fail so much at accessibility
This is absolutely brilliant:
Digital Agencies of the Future
For those who can't see the images, it's a bunch of screenshots of advertising agency sites as viewed in Mobile Safari with no available Flash plugin. Almost all of them, with very few exceptions, say something to the effect of "You must have Flash to view this site." Some of them didn't even change the basic boilerplate text in their Flash detection script. And some of them don't even try to detect it, and just show one big missing plugin icon.
(And it's not just mobile browsers where this is an issue. Flash is only accessible on Windows, when it's even accessible in the first place-- there's no screen reader support built into the plugin on Mac or Linux. And the sites look just as barren on my spare PowerPC Linux box, as Adobe simply does not make a plugin for that processor/OS combination.)
Digital Agencies of the Future
For those who can't see the images, it's a bunch of screenshots of advertising agency sites as viewed in Mobile Safari with no available Flash plugin. Almost all of them, with very few exceptions, say something to the effect of "You must have Flash to view this site." Some of them didn't even change the basic boilerplate text in their Flash detection script. And some of them don't even try to detect it, and just show one big missing plugin icon.
(And it's not just mobile browsers where this is an issue. Flash is only accessible on Windows, when it's even accessible in the first place-- there's no screen reader support built into the plugin on Mac or Linux. And the sites look just as barren on my spare PowerPC Linux box, as Adobe simply does not make a plugin for that processor/OS combination.)
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