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From: "ted chittenden" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] question about a website


> While blind people are a small minority whose views are often ignored on 
> issues like this, making the entire website only available in Flash 
> actually offends a much larger (and growing) crowd that I'm sure HBO would 
> love to attract; namely, those who use iPads and iPhones. Steve Jobs has 
> made it clear that he has absolutely no intention of making his phones 
> flash-compatible any time in the near future, and I therefore think that 
> one good way to get sites to change their modus operandi would be to 
> enlist the aid of those who use iPhones and iPods to surf the web.
>
> Ted
> ---- Tom Lange <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> You wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>   I have the feeling the HBO site is done in Flash. Jaws didn't find 
>> anything on the page for me, and when I hit the context key, I noticed 
>> that among the usual options were things like, play, loop, fast forward, 
>> and rewind.
>>
>>   Yep, this is what I found when I visited the site as well.  It's 
>> obvious that the site builder had no frickin' clue about accessibility 
>> for screen readers, and that kind of stuff just ticks me off beyond 
>> belief. If I ever ran into its web developer I'd smack him.  Shame, 
>> shame!
>>
>>
>>   Tom
>>
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