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Re: [LUG] Flash

 

Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Tom and All

On 23 May 2006, at 09:23, Tom Potts wrote:

It is really worth considering whether you need Flash at all?
Thanks for the responses. I went down this road reluctantly - a client thing - but having considered the responses have come up with another solution. Take a look at this:
<http://www.maani.us/xml_slideshow/index.php?menu=Introduction>
Would you say this could be used to create and accessible site or maybe it is best to go down a javascript road.

More information. The client sells weddings... They want a very simple introduction three/four images, wedding dress, man in suit, experience elegance, the wedding company. The idea is they softly move from one image to another and then fade away with the intro page of the site.

Any ideas please?

Thanks
Accessibility is a tricky one - basically you have to provide any image content with a text equivalent so you cant easily reproduce fancy animations - and certainly not there effect. You can use a gif animation to fade from one image to another (gimp will allow you to make one of these). Javascript could be used to fade out text ( slowly change the colour to the background using a 'timer') Re SVG a lot of browsers (IE6 included) needed an SVG plugin loaded so a lot of basic users wont have it (ditto flash) so you'll have to do the 'would you like to load this'. Havent had time to look at the link you gave but I've seen lots javascript slideshow stuff but to segue you either need an animated gif or to use one of the javascript mage libraries. Heres a neat zoom in/out http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/imagezoom.shtml - you may find the scripts you need in this collection- I'm spending too much time playing with others to find yours! http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp for some slightly biased browser stats to help persuade your client javascript is the way to go!
Tom



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